International

25-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ha met pro-India politicians from disputed Kashmir for the first time since he removed the region’s semi-autonomous status and imposed a widespread crackdown almost two years ago. Thousands of people, including mainstream and prominent Kashmiri leaders, were detained and …

25-06-2021 MIAMI: At least one person has died and dozens are missing after the collapse of a 12-storey residential building north of Miami, Florida, officials say. The number of people who have been located now stands at 102, while 99 are still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine-Cava. …

25-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Russian Defence Sergey Shoygu has warned of a civil war in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign troops. Speaking at the ninth Moscow Conference on International Security, Shoygu stressed upon the key role of Islamabad and Tehran to keep the Afghan groups …

25-06-2021 OTTAWA: Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan; Canada and Indigenous leaders say they will find more at other sites. Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan said they had …

25-06-2021 MINNEAPOLIS- MINNESOTA (USA): Thirteen months to the day after George Floyd was murdered on the streets of south Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer who put his knee to Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes, will be sentenced for the second-degree murder conviction he received on …

24-06-2021 Bureau Report DHAKA/ KARACHI: A prominent Muslim Bangladeshi cleric with a huge online following has issued a fatwa against people using Facebook’s “haha” emoji to mock people. Ahmadullah, who uses one name, has more than three million followers on Facebook and YouTube. He regularly appears on television shows to …

24-06-2021 SIMFEROPOL/ MOSCOW/ LONDON: More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow’s defence ministry said that HMS Defender entered Russian territorial waters near Crimea while a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in its path. Britain’s …

23-06-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said were hosted on US-owned domains in violation of sanctions. Visitors to leading Iranian media sites such as Press TV and Al-Alam, the country’s …

23-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern after nearly two dozen cases had been detected across the country so far. The variant AY.1, identified locally as Delta Plus and first identified in Europe, has been found in at least 22 cases …

23-06-2021 NEW YORK/ RIYADH/ ISTANBUL: Four Saudis who were involved in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The training was provided by …