International

13-07-2024 BEIJING: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has hit back at NATO’s “groundless accusations” that Beijing is helping Russia in its war on Ukraine. He has also warned the Western alliance against stirring up confrontation. Wang’s comments, made in a call with his Dutch counterpart, came hours after leaders of …

13-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Media watchdogs in India have accused the police in Uttar Pradesh state of “grave overreach” for filing cases against journalists after they wrote about the alleged lynching of a Muslim man last week in social media posts. Police in the northern state’s Shamli …

12-07-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has announced it will extend the registration cards of nearly 1.5 million Afghan refugees after a senior UN official urged the country to halt its deportation plan. “The federal cabinet approved one-year extension of the validity of POR (Proof of Registration) cards of 1.45 million …

12-07-2024 BAGHDAD: The first wife of the late leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been sentenced to death by a court in Iraq, the country’s judiciary says. Karkh Criminal Court convicted the woman of “working with the extremist organization and detaining Yazidi women”, according …

12-07-2024 LA PAZ, SUCRE: Rival factions of the governing party in Bolivia have clashed in the city of La Paz. Footage showed party faithful throwing stones, wielding sticks and kicking and punching each other. The Movement Toward Socialism (Mas) is deeply split, with some backing the current president, Luis Arce, …

12-07-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid intensified operations in the north. Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct “everyone in Gaza City” to leave what is described as a “dangerous combat zone” via designated safe …

12-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Long-range US missiles are to be deployed periodically in Germany from 2026 for the first time since the Cold War, in a decision announced at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit. The Tomahawk cruise, SM-6 and hypersonic missiles have a significantly longer range than existing missiles, the US and Germany …

12-07-2024 PARIS/ ROUEN: The spire of a famous Gothic cathedral in the French city of Rouen caught fire, prompting an evacuation, local officials say. Images posted on X by the prefecture show black smoke billowing from a canopy and scaffolding at the top of the building, which is about 150m …

11-07-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid an intensified offensive there. Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct “everyone in Gaza City” to leave what what is described as a “dangerous combat zone” via designated safe …

11-07-2024 MOSCOW: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the death of innocent children was painful and terrifying, a day after a lethal strike on a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The visiting Indian leader used emotive language to deliver an implicit …