04-03-2023 BUENOS AIRES: Gunmen threatened football superstar Lionel Messi in a written message left when they opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina, police said. Nobody was injured in the attack on Thursday, and it was unclear why assailants would target Messi or the Unico supermarket …

04-03-2023 DUBAI/ WASHINGTON: A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS), carrying two US astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut to begin a six-month science mission. The autonomously flying spacecraft dubbed Endeavour docked at the space station shortly after 06:40 …

04-03-2023 SEOL: South Korea and the United States will press ahead with large-scale military drills later this month despite North Korea threatening to take “unprecedentedly” strong action against such exercises. The South Korean and US militaries will conduct military exercises from March 13 to 23 to strengthen their combined defensive …

04-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: China leads the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies, with Western democracies falling behind in the race for scientific and research breakthroughs, a report by an Australian think tank has found. China is in a position to become the world’s top …

03-03-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticized global institutions for failing to address the world’s biggest challenges, calling on countries to find common ground on divisive issues. Speaking at the opening of the Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on Thursday, …

03-03-2023 MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rebuked a statement from Washington that appeared to criticize an electoral reform law in his country, accusing the United States of meddling in the affairs of its neighbor. Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday the US always interferes “in matters that …

03-03-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has ordered the setting up of a bipartisan panel that will include the prime minister and the chief justice to select the country’s election commissioners, ending a practice of the government effectively choosing them. The Election Commission of India is an autonomous …

03-03-2023 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has spiralled into a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a child rights charity. The Sri Lankan government and the international community must act now to prevent …

03-03-2023 DAMASCUS/ IDLIB: Lying on his hospital bed in a room full of other patients, Mustafa Eid looks from the intravenous solution entering his body, seemingly counting the drops, to the people around him, each with a needle in their arm delivering the medicines hanging next to them. Eid, from …

03-03-2023 TEHRAN/ QOM: Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the country. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in the holy city …