International

20-11-2024 ISTANBUL: Forty-seven people have gone on trial in Turkey in connection with an alleged scam in which newborns were transferred between hospitals for profit. Prosecutors say doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers are responsible for the deaths of at least 10 children. The defendants are accused of making false diagnoses …

20-11-2024 WASHINGTON KYIV: President Joe Biden’s apparent green light for Ukraine to strike Russia with US-made long-range missiles has caused consternation among some of Donald Trump’s allies. Trump himself has not commented, but he won the election after promising to end the war and several people close to him have …

19-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: MANIPUR: Police in the northeast Indian state of Manipur have arrested 23 people for ransacking and setting fires to the homes of lawmakers and ministers in the capital Imphal as protests erupted on Saturday following the discovery of six bodies. Protesters are demanding …

19-11-2024 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Sunday that his administration will seek the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, where has been in exile since fleeing a mass uprising in August. In a televised address to the nation on his first …

19-11-2024 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, tackling the issue for the first time in excerpts from an upcoming book. “According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said …

19-11-2024 LUSAKA: A grandmother in rural Zambia has become a style icon and internet sensation – after agreeing to play dress-up and swapping outfits with her fashionista granddaughter. Margret Chola, who is in her mid-80s, is known to the world as “Legendary Glamma” and adored by 225,000 Instagram followers for …

19-11-2024 MEXICO CITY: Miss Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, has spoken of her pride at coming second in the Miss Universe competition, as well as being named Miss Africa and Oceania. “I’m so proud of myself and I just made history,” she said, shortly after losing out to Miss Denmark, Victoria Kjær …

19-11-2024 SYDNEY: Veteran Australian broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones has been arrested after an investigation into a series of sexual abuse allegations. New South Wales Police said detectives from the Child Abuse Squad took an 83-year-old man into custody at an apartment in Sydney’s Circular Quay early on …

19-11-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut, the Lebanese militant group has confirmed. A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighborhood on Sunday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. The …

19-11-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by the US to strike Russia. A US official has confirmed the move, a major change of US policy, to media. For months, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging that the …