International

23-03-2024 MOSCOW: Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at concertgoers with automatic weapons on Friday, killing at least 117 people and injuring 145 more in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era …

23-03-2024 BRUSSELS: The Balkan country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is to begin EU membership negotiations, eight years after it formally applied to join the bloc. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm last week recommended that talks should begin. EU leaders have now given the plan their approval. European Council …

23-03-2024 QATAR/ GAZA CITY: Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has carried out a forensic analysis of the events of October 7, when Hamas fighters launched an incursion into Israel that has transformed the politics of the Middle East. October 7 reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others …

23-03-2024 CAIRO/ WASHINGTON: Israel’s spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the US planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the UN Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally. US Secretary of State Antony …

23-03-2024 BOISE, IDAHO: Idaho police have captured two white supremacist gang members who have been linked to two homicides since a prison break on Wednesday. Fugitive inmate Skylar Meade and alleged accomplice Nicholas Umphenour were caught in Twin Falls, Idaho. Three officers were injured when Umphenour allegedly ambushed guards while …

22-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister and prominent opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by India’s financial crime agency in connection with corruption allegations related to the city’s liquor policy, his party has said. The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday means the main leaders …

22-03-2024 MOGADISHU: As a speed boat carrying more than a dozen Somali pirates bore down on their position in the western Indian Ocean, the crew of a Bangladeshi-owned bulk carrier sent out a distress signal and called an emergency hotline. No one reached them in time. The pirates clambered aboard …

22-03-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel’s English-language government spokesman Eylon Levy has been suspended, Israeli media reports say. The Israeli prime minister’s office has not given a reason, according to the reports but there is speculation that it is linked to an online row with the UK foreign secretary, Lord Cameron. Levy has …

22-03-2024 KABUL/ KANDAHAR: A rare suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, known as the Taliban’s political headquarters, killed at least 23 people and injured dozens early Thursday. Taliban authorities said the victims had gathered outside the officially run New Kabul Bank to receive their salaries when a suicide …

22-03-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Months of turmoil and political instability following the murder of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021 have culminated in the current spate of extreme gang violence. The fighting has already claimed many thousands of victims, from those whose bodies lie strewn in the streets, to others like Sarah …