International

16-11-2023 LONDON: The annual pace of price rises is expected to have slowed sharply when the latest official figure for October is released on Wednesday, easing fears that the Bank of England could increase interest rates next month. City economists polled by Reuters have signaled that inflation as measured by …

16-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Eighty (80) people, including convicted criminals considered dangerous, have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said Monday. A member of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim …

16-11-2023 WASHINGTON: Washington will resume food aid for people across Ethiopia next month, after assistance was paused earlier this year, following implementation of comprehensive reforms, according to a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Ethiopia’s food crisis has deepened in recent years as a …

16-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON: Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary. In a blistering letter to the prime minister, she said he had repeatedly failed on key policies and …

16-11-2023 RIYADH: Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. How is it, foreign ministers said to me, …

16-11-2023 HELSINKI: Finland’s prime minister has accused Russia of helping migrants get into the country illegally, saying some have been helped by Russian border guards. Finnish officials say migrants arrive by car before cycling across the border in small groups to claim asylum. Finland shares a 1,340km (833-mile) border with …

16-11-2023 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since war against Hamas broke out over a month ago. Canada has maintained that Israel has the right to …

15-11-2023 SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first visit to the United States in six years on Tuesday, after President Joe Biden said he aimed to restore normal communications with Beijing and his top diplomat stressed the need for freedoms that Washington says Beijing is undermining in the …

15-11-2023 By SJA Jafri LONDON: Suella Braverman was removed as the Home Secretary Monday in a turn of events after she incited hate against minority communities, putting her once again in the limelight. Braverman labels pro-Palestinian Marches as “Hate Marches,” leading to accusations of political interference in policing and ultimately, …

15-11-2023 GAZA CITY: Israel’s attacks on Gaza hospitals “should be investigated as war crimes”, Human Rights Watch says. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says operations will “grind to a halt” if no fuel is allowed into Gaza by Wednesday. Hospitals in northern Gaza have been forced to shut down …