International

31-10-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has called on the Georgian government to respond to international concern at the scale of violations in Saturday’s election and repeal recent Russian-style laws. The Georgian Dream government in the South Caucasus state, which borders Russia, claimed a fourth term in power after election …

31-10-2024 BEIRUT: The sound of war is loud at night in Beirut’s eastern Achrafieh neighborhood. Residents can hear Israeli air strikes hitting the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, known as Dahieh. Some can even see the explosions lighting up the sky from their balconies. However, on the streets it is quiet. …

31-10-2024 BARCELONA: At least 62 people have died in eastern Spain after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Emergency services in the eastern region of Valencia confirmed …

30-10-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban his organization increases the suffering of Palestinians and is “nothing less than collective punishment”. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 60 people have been killed …

30-10-2024 UNITED NATIONS: National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall significantly short of those needed to limit catastrophic global warming, says the United Nations before climate change negotiations next month. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) are enough to cut global emissions by 2.6 percent from 2019 to 2030, up …

30-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant, boosting New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defence and aerospace industries. Sanchez was welcomed to India on Monday with a flower-filled …

30-10-2024 GLAND, SWITZERLAND: More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The report published on Monday has …

30-10-2024 WASHINGTON: Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris is promising to reassess which federal jobs require a college degree if elected as United States president. Harris was campaigning in Michigan on Monday and told workers at a semiconductor facility in Saginaw County that the country needed to change the idea that …

30-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel’s parliament has voted to pass legislation banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, within three months. Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will also be banned, severely limiting the agency’s ability to operate in Gaza and …

30-10-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are operating in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian troops have a foothold, NATO has said for the first time. The alliance’s Secretary General, Mark Rutte, said he could confirm the deployment after weeks of intelligence reports, following a …