International

26-12-2024 BAKU/ AKTAU: Dozens of people have survived a crash involving a plane carrying 69 people in Kazakhstan, local officials say. Kazakh authorities said 38 people were killed in the crash. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the Kazakh city of …

26-12-2024 JERUSALEM: The actions of the Israeli military had a “circumstantial influence” on a decision by Hamas militants to kill six hostages in Gaza in August, according to a military investigation published on Tuesday. The recovery in September of the bodies of six Israeli hostages, including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, triggered …

26-12-2024 DHAKA/ NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and adviser on Tuesday described allegations of corruption involving the family in the 2015 awarding of a $12.65 billion nuclear power contract as “completely bogus” and a “smear campaign”. Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission said on Monday it had launched an …

26-12-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is reviewing a decade-old $30 billion program requiring coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut Sulphur emissions after government-backed studies showed they had little impact on curbing pollution, according to a document reviewed by a media outlet. Nearly 540 power plant …

26-12-2024 ROME: Christmas revelers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles today, as Pope Francis launched observation of the global holiday with a sombre mass in the Vatican. At Saint Peter’s Basilica, Francis used his Christmas Eve mass to urge …

26-12-2024 NEW YORK: American Airlines has resumed flights after suspending its services for around an hour on Tuesday due to a technical issue that impacted the systems needed to release its planes. The nationwide halt was cancelled just before 13:00 GMT, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The disruption …

26-12-2024 BRASILIA: There are fears of water contamination after a bridge collapsed in northern Brazil at the weekend, sending Lorries carrying thousands of litres of pesticides and sulphuric acid into the river below. Four people are known to have died, and more than 10 are missing after the central span …

26-12-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: At least two journalists and a police officer were killed Tuesday after armed gangs opened fire on them inside an old military hospital in Haiti’s capital. The attack also left at least seven journalists and two police officers injured with gunshot wounds. The injured were being treated at …

26-12-2024 COPENHAGEN: The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a “double digit billion amount” in krone, or at least $1.5bn …

Bureau Report + Agencies PARACHINAR/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Thousands of Shia Muslims including Ismailis and other minorities belong with Hindu, Christian, Baha’i, Sikh, Parsi and other non-Muslims have been either murdered, injured, kidnapped and missed forcibly in Pakistan during last four decades but neither the law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) even could …