23-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies BANJUL/ NEW DELHI: In September last year, Ebrima Sajnia watched helplessly as his young son slowly died in front of his eyes. Sajnia, who works as a taxi driver in The Gambia, says three-year-old Lamin was set to start attending nursery school in a few …

23-08-2023 HAWAII: President Joe Biden has toured wildfire damage in Hawaii after scrutiny of his administration’s response to the state’s worst ever natural disaster. He arrived in Maui on Monday, 13 days after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century, telling survivors the nation “grieves with you”. Biden and …

23-08-2023 TOKYO: Japan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbors. The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog approved the plan. Some 1.34 million tonnes of water enough to fill 500 Olympic-size pools …

23-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: More than 200 former Afghan soldiers and officials have been killed extra judicially since August 2021, despite a general amnesty announced by the Taliban immediately after its takeover, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan has said. The United Nations Assistance Mission …

23-08-2023 GEORGIA: Just after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee approved a $200,000 bond, the four-time indicted former President Donald Trump decided to surrender in Georgia where a case of subverting election results of the state in 2020 is registered, as he reiterated that he is being wronged. Donald …

22-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s space agency has released images of the far side of the Moon as its third lunar mission attempts to locate a safe landing spot on the little-explored South Pole. The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3’s lander, which began the last …

22-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: The prospect of a possible strike at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia has pushed wholesale gas prices up in Europe. The Offshore Alliance union warned that a strike at the North West Shelf facility could start as early as 2 …

22-08-2023 NEW YORK: Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead. Migrants have …

22-08-2023 MAUI: Some 850 people are still missing after the devastating wildfires in Maui, County Mayor Richard Bissen has said. Over 1,200 people who had been on the list of those missing have been found safe, Bissen said on Monday, warning numbers are expected to fluctuate. One hundred and fourteen …

22-08-2023 BAGHDAD: Iraqi authorities ordered the shutdown of advertisement screens after a hacker displayed pornography on an LED screen in one of Baghdad’s main squares on Sunday, causing public uproar in a largely conservative society. The hacker was arrested approximately nine hours after the incident which lasted for a few …