06-10-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia’s east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost three months of 2022 still to go, Australia’s largest city has recorded …

05-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah ruled out talks with Pakistan today and indicated that the elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held soon. Speaking to a huge crowd in Kashmir’s Baramulla, Shah said, “I assure you that once revision of revision of …

05-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ ISLAMABAD: Julien Harneis, Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan, told journalists in Geneva on Monday that there would be an increase in child morbidity, disease outbreaks such as malaria, dengue fever, and increased malnutrition, unless assistance was forthcoming. The Government needs support to bolster health, nutrition, …

05-10-2022 OTTAWA/ TEHRAN: Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Monday for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who died while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police,” the Canadian government said. “These sanctions are in response to gross human rights …

05-10-2022 BOGOTA: Colombia’s government and the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group have announced that they will reestablish peace talks that were suspended in 2018. Delegations of Colombia’s government and the ELN will restart negotiations after the first week of November, the parties said in a statement on Tuesday …

05-10-2022 NEW YORK: Billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to go ahead with his original offer of $44bn to take Twitter Inc private, a securities filing showed on Tuesday, signalling an end to a legal battle that could have forced Musk to pay up. An agreement would put the world’s richest …

05-10-2022 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has asked the United States Supreme Court to halt the Justice Department’s review of classified documents seized from the former president’s Florida home in August. In a legal filing on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers urged the top court to pause the government’s review while a neutral arbiter …

04-10-2022 TEHRAN: The president of Iran expressed the country’s readiness to use its regional capacities in cooperation with the United Nations to contribute to regional and international peace and welfare. On Monday evening, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In response to …

04-10-2022 North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, the fifth launch in 10 days, amid expectations that it is gearing up to test its first nuclear weapon in five years. The missile, detected by the Japanese coast guard and South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, prompted warning sirens …

04-10-2022 GENEVA: Switzerland has a serious systemic problem with racism against people of African descent, according to a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, giving a broad range of examples from police brutality to a children’s game. The UN-appointed working group noted positive measures taken by …