International

22-11-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s largest conglomerates have been snapping up stakes in high-end, homegrown designer brands to help them scale up and go global. The trend, experts say, points to a luxury retail market on the cusp of maturity. In October, Reliance Brands Limited (RBL), a subsidiary of …

22-11-2021 TEHRAN/ KARACHI: We reject all fake media stories and disinformation against Iran, its institutions and masses, a senior expert on regional affairs, Massoud Asadollahi told media Asadollahi rejected those stories that the commander of the Iranian military advisers in Syria has been expelled at the request of the UAE, …

21-11-2021 KHARTOUM: A political agreement has been signed in Sudan enabling Abdalla Hamdok to be reinstated as prime minister. Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan signed the deal on Sunday with Hamdok to restore the transition to civilian rule nearly a month after a military coup. The 14-point deal, signed …

21-11-2021 AMSTERDAM/BERLIN: Fresh unrest has erupted in the Netherlands against new lockdown rules amid rising COVID-19 cases in Europe. People hurled fireworks at police and set fire to bicycles in The Hague, one night after protests in Rotterdam turned violent and police opened fire. Thousands of demonstrators also took to …

15-11-2021 MOGADISHU: A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the capital, Mogadishu. Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, was targeted as he was leaving a restaurant in the city shortly after midday. …

15-11-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Four children have died after a house fire broke out at Werribee in Melbourne’s south west overnight. The children were all aged 10 and under. Among the victims were two boys, aged 10 and three, and two girls, aged six and one. The children’s father and …

21-11-2021 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Commandos with the naval force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have seized a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf for smuggling diesel. Colonel Ahmad Hajian, the commander of the Naval Type 412 Zulfiqar in the southern Persian county in the Hormozgan province, was quoted by …

21-11-2021 SANA’A; RIYADH: Yemen’s Houthi fighters said they fired 14 drones at several Saudi cities on Saturday, including at Saudi Aramco facilities in Jeddah, with the Saudi state news agency reporting that the Saudi-led coalition attacked 13 targets in Yemen during a military operation against the group. Yahya Saree, the …

21-11-2021 BEIJING/ UNITED NATIONS: China has strongly criticized the United Nations over comments demanding the release of a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of the country’s COVID-19 response. The Chinese mission in Geneva voiced outrage on Saturday at what it said were the “irresponsible” and “erroneous” comments made by …

21-11-2021 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden was declared healthy and fit to execute his duties as president of the US during a routine medical check-up during which his powers were transferred briefly to Vice-President Kamala Harris. “The President remains a healthy, vigorous, 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute …