International

10-08-2022 SAN FRANCISCO/ RIYADH: A former Twitter worker was found guilty on Tuesday of spying for Saudi officials keen to unmask critics on the platform. Ahmad Abouammo was pronounced guilty on criminal counts including money laundering, fraud, and being an illegal agent of a foreign government, according to a copy …

09-08-2022 By SJA Jafri NEW MEXICO/ WASHINGTON/ KARACHI: A phrase ‘as you sow…sow shall you reap!’ describes simply, what is “target killing”, who does it, how it happens and who becomes the victim as it has been started in America and other countries of the world like continues in Pakistan, …

09-08-2022 BRASILIA: Brazil’s eight-time jiujitsu world champion Leandro Lo has been fatally shot in a Sao Paulo club, his family’s lawyer said. Lo was out with friends on Sunday for a concert at the Clube Siria, a sport and social club in Brazil’s biggest city, when the attacker approached their …

09-08-2022 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s central bank has unveiled plans to examine the potential economic benefits of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said in a statement on Tuesday it would carry out a year-long pilot project to explore “innovative use cases …

09-08-2022 GAZA: Only two hours separated the killing of Hamed Najim, 17, and three of his cousins at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and the announcement of a ceasefire with Israel. Israel and the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad declared a truce late on Sunday after …

09-08-2022 WASHINGTON/ FLORIDA: Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe, possibly connected to a US Justice Department investigation of Trump’s removal of official presidential records to the Florida resort. The unprecedented search of a former president’s home would mark …

08-08-2022 BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Taiwan is not part of the United States but Chinese territory, in the latest diplomatic invective against U.S. policy since a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The United States has been engaging in …

08-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: Police in New Mexico and federal agencies were probing the murders of four Muslim men to determine if the killings, the latest of which happened on Friday evening, were linked while the state’s governor described them as targeted killings. Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina told reporters on …

08-08-2022 KYIV: Amnesty International apologised on Sunday for “distress and anger” caused by a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians which infuriated President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and triggered the resignation of its Kyiv office head. The rights group published the report on Thursday saying the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential …

08-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GAZA CITY/ ISLAMABAD: The death toll from violence in Gaza has risen to 30, including six children, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said Sunday, correcting a previous statement, as Israel continues to pond Gaza with air strikes. Meanwhile, the ministry had put the …