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 …

04-10-2022 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it has won a bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at a planned mountain resort in the Gulf Arab state’s $500 billion flagship NEOM project. The TROJENA development is expected to be completed in 2026 and will offer outdoor skiing, a …

04-10-2022 STOCKHOLM: Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on supercomputers and encrypted communication. The awards were given for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the …

04-10-2022 LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been facing racist attacks after a British newspaper falsely reported that official had plans to cancel the making of the statue of the Queen. The discriminatory attacks have been made publically on social media. Ironically, Khan had recently warned about media outlets inducing …

03-10-2022 BRASILIA: Deeply divided Brazil will hold a deciding vote in four weeks’ time after far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro performed more strongly than expected in Sunday’s presidential poll. With 99.8 percent of voting machines counted, left-wing challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had 48.4 percent of valid votes, compared with …

03-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ TEHRAN: The Indian Air Force (IAF) says it temporarily scrambled fighter jets after receiving a bomb alert on an Iranian airliner that turned out to be false. “IAF fighter aircraft were scrambled, which followed the aircraft at a safe distance. The aircraft was …

03-10-2022 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel praised a US proposal to resolve the country’s maritime border dispute with Lebanon, building further momentum towards an agreement between two nations still technically at war. The draft agreement floated by United States envoy Amos Hochstein aims to settle competing claims over offshore gas fields and …

03-10-2022 STOCKHOLM: Swedish Scientist Svante Paabo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”, the award-giving body said. The prize, arguably among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of …

03-10-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW: Pope Francis has for the first time directly appealed to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears”. The head of the Catholic Church also condemned the annexation of four …