International

04-01-2024 COLORADO: The “cyber kidnapping” scam that extorted the Chinese family of a foreign exchange student studying in the US is part of a larger criminal trend that parents across the globe could fall victim to, experts warned. Student Kai Zhuang was reported missing by his high school last week …

04-01-2024 BEIJING: Chinese company BYD sold more electric vehicles than Elon Musk’s Tesla in the last three months of 2023 as the two battled for top spot in the sector. BYD said on Monday it had sold a record 526,000 battery-only vehicles in the final quarter of 2023. It marked …

04-01-2024 TOKYO: A Japan Airlines plane burst into flames after a collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. All 379 passengers and crew on board were evacuated, but five of the six crew on the coastguard plane died, police said. The captain was injured. …

04-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known to give interviews to the media. In late December he made an exception and spoke to the London-based Financial Times, which had first reported on how the United States government had thwarted an alleged plot …

04-01-2024 BEIRUT: Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri has been martyred in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, the Palestinian group and Lebanese media outlets say. Al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday in a “treacherous Zionist strike”, Hamas said on its official channel. Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Sharq …

04-01-2024 TOKYO: At least 48 people have been reported dead after a massive earthquake hit the coast of central Japan on New Year’s Day. Authorities raised the death toll on Tuesday afternoon. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that the damage is “widespread,” and with rescue teams struggling to access …

04-01-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza. Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich said this …

03-01-2024 TEHRAN: State media in Iran says the death toll from twin blasts near the grave of slain Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani has risen to 103 people, after some who were injured died of their wounds. The official IRNA news agency also says that 141 people were wounded in …

03-01-2024 GAZA CITY: Shelling and missile strikes continued into Tuesday and its impact was felt across the Gaza Strip. Nearly three months of Israeli occupation aggression have claimed almost 22,000 lives in Gaza and devastated much of the infrastructures in the country. On Monday night into Tuesday morning, eyewitnesses reported …

03-01-2024 SEOL: South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck Tuesday during a visit to the southern city of Busan to tour the site of a proposed airport, according to party and fire officials. After receiving emergency treatment and CT scans, Lee was airlifted from …