International

23-03-2026 TEHRAN: Iranian authorities gave the national women’s football team a hero’s welcome after their return from Australia, where some had made and then withdrawn asylum claims, amid accusations Iran had pressured their families. Six players and one backroom staff member who travelled to Australia for the Women’s Asian Cup …

23-03-2026 COPENHAGEN: Danish soldiers flown to Greenland in January were prepared to blow up key airport runways over fears that US President Donald Trump could invade the Arctic island, Denmark’s public broadcaster DR says. Citing sources in the Danish government and military, and also among European allies, DR says blood …

23-03-2026 LONDON/ SUSSEX: Sussex Police has apologized to the victim of a police investigator who engaged in sexual activity with her while he was on duty. David Gamlin, 59, was dismissed from the force in 2023 and sentenced to one year in prison for misconduct in October 2025. The woman, …

23-03-2026 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: From soaring heating oil bills for homes in Yorkshire to bill-saving school closures in Pakistan, the financial fallout from the war in the Middle East is already being keenly felt. It is increasingly clear that the impact of Tehran’s retaliation, designed to trigger economic disruption and …

Washington/Tehran: March 22 (Agencies )A US website has made a sensational revelation that, despite intense military and political tensions, indirect contacts between the United States and Iran are still ongoing. According to the report, although direct negotiations between the two countries have been suspended, Qatar, Egypt, and the United Kingdom …

22-03-2026 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel “acted alone” in attacking an Iranian gas field, as tensions mount over strikes on energy infrastructure across the region. Israel hit Iran’s South Pars, part of the world’s largest natural gas field and Tehran retaliated by striking an energy complex …

22-03-2026 By SJA Jafri + Agencies SYDNEY: Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke were heckled by some worshippers at one of Australia’s largest mosques, with some booing and one shouting “genocide supporters” before the prime minister made a quick exit. The prime minister and the home affairs minister were at Lakemba …

22-03-2026 MOSCOW/ KYIV: The Kremlin said on Thursday that talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv on ending the war in ‌Ukraine were on “situational pause” following the start of the Iran war but Ukraine’s president said new discussions were expected this weekend. US President Donald Trump vowed to end the …

22-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing its biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move opposed by a group representing the smartphone giants, ‌industry letters show. The tussle over preloading state-run apps has become a recurring …

22-03-2026 GENEVA: FIFA fined the Israeli Football Association (IFA) 150,000 Swiss francs ($190,700) for “multiple breaches” of its anti-discrimination obligations. A report on Thursday by the disciplinary committee of world football’s governing body found the IFA “failed to take meaningful action against Beitar Jerusalem” for “persistent and well-documented racist behavior”. …