International

03-02-2022 KYIV/ MOSCOW: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is concentrated on “peace” as it gears up defences in the face of a Russian military buildup. His remarks on Wednesday, delivered in Ukraine’s capital alongside visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, came after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused …

03-02-2022 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: As economists, politicians, and pundits mull the threat of “swift and severe” United States economic sanctions against Russia should the latter invade Ukraine, one country that has long been in Washington’s crosshairs does not have to ponder what such punitive measures can do, Iran. Some 655 Iranian …

02-02-2022 VIRGINIA/ MINNESOTA: Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday while one student was killed and another wounded in a school shooting in Minnesota on the same day, police and an official of school said. The two agents, a …

02-02-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he hopes Russia and the West will find a solution to the raging security crisis over Ukraine, but also accused Washington of using Kyiv as a “tool” to contain Moscow. Putin said the Kremlin was studying a response from Washington and …

02-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in India have arrested 12 people, including eight women and three minor boys, over alleged sexual assault and parading of a young woman in the streets of capital New Delhi. Police on Tuesday told media, the three minors are accused of sexually assaulting the …

02-02-2022 DUBAI/ SANA’A/ WASHINGTON: The United States military launched interceptor missiles in response to an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates (UAE), officials have said. The UAE said on Monday it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen as the Gulf state …

02-02-2022 GENEVA: Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the COVID-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said on Tuesday. The material, a portion of which could be …

02-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WELLINGTON/ KABUL: A pregnant New Zealand journalist who claimed to have nowhere to go but Afghanistan will be allowed to return home, after officials granted her an exemption from strict COVID-19 entry restrictions amid public outcry. Reporter Charlotte Bellis on Tuesday said she would return …

01-02-2022 UNITED NATIONS: There have been angry clashes between Russian and US envoys at the UN Security Council, after the US called a meeting to discuss Moscow’s troop build-up on its borders with Ukraine. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the mobilization was the biggest Europe had seen in decades. Her …

01-02-2022 HOUSTON: A lightning bolt that stretched for 768 kilometres (477.2 miles) across the southern United States in 2020 is the new world record holder for the longest single flash, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The mega flash extended across the states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on …