International

22-10-2024 MOGADISHU: Alcohol smuggler Guled Diriye is exhausted. He has just returned from his trip transporting contraband from the Ethiopian border. The 29-year-old slumps in his chair inside a colonial-style villa battered by years of fighting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a city once known as the Pearl of the Indian …

22-10-2024 AMSTERDAM: More than 100 professional women’s footballers have signed an open letter urging Federation International Football Association (FIFA) to drop the Saudi oil giant Aramco as a sponsor, calling it a “punch in the stomach” to the sport. Earlier this year FIFA announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s state-owned …

22-10-2024 KHARTUM: Millions of people in South Sudan have been affected by floods across much of the country, the UN’s humanitarian organization, Ocha, has said. More than a quarter of those many in the north have been forced from their homes by rising waters. Ocha said the displaced were seeking …

22-10-2024 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India’s top diplomat has said. Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these (border) areas that had arisen in …

22-10-2024 CANBERRA: An Australian senator has defended heckling King Charles and accusing him of genocide after he addressed Australia’s Parliament House, telling media that “he’s not of this land”. Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian woman, interrupted the ceremony in the capital of Canberra by shouting for about a minute before …

22-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel has carried out air strikes across Lebanon, saying its targeting branches of a bank used by Hezbollah. The Israeli military issued 24 warnings in less than an hour evacuation warnings which caused widespread panic, according to the UN’s envoy to Lebanon. The Al-Qard al-Hassan bank has …

22-10-2024 CHISINAU: People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country’s proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum. Official data put Yes on 50.46% and No on 49.54% on Monday afternoon, with more than 99.6% of votes counted. …

21-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT/ CAIRO: Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern Israel and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home. Netanyahu was not there at the time, …

21-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India has proposed to the United States to convert their memorandum of understanding in critical minerals into a critical minerals agreement (CMA) that will give the benefits of a free trade agreement to the trade of electric vehicles. “I have suggested that our …

21-10-2024 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: Billionaire Elon Musk promised on Saturday to give away $1 million each day until November’s election to someone who signs his online petition supporting the US Constitution. And he wasted no time, awarding a $1 million check to an attendee of his event in Pennsylvania aimed at …