International

04-12-2024 SEOUL: South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will lift the martial law order that he had announced in a surprise move. Less than two hours after his martial law declaration, MPs had defied the president, gathering at the National Assembly and voting to block his move. Some …

04-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Indian police will seek details from Elon Musk’s Starlink, they said on Tuesday, in a bid to hunt down drug smugglers who used its satellite internet device to navigate deep seas and bring meth worth $4.25 billion into Indian waters for the first time. …

04-12-2024 HELSINKI/ STOCKHOLM: Authorities in Finland are investigating a broken fiber-optic cable after two separate cuts caused an outage affecting thousands of households. The Swedish government said it suspected an act of “sabotage” on the cable, which links the two countries, but Finnish police said they did not yet have …

04-12-2024 WASHINGTON: Critics of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI have expressed doubts that he is qualified to lead the US government’s principal law enforcement agency. Some also raised fears that Kash Patel, a marginal figure in Trump’s first administration known for his loyalty, aims to dismantle an …

04-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: The beaches of Gaza are no longer for day trips. Tens of thousands of people now have to live on the coastline, forced to leave their homes during the war. In recent days they have come under a new kind of assault: from winter seas battering their …

04-12-2024 NEW DELHI/ ALLAHABAD: More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail and ordered “immediate release” of Mohammed Zubair from prison, the leading Indian fact-checker and journalist is once again back in court. On Tuesday, the Allahabad high court briefly heard his petition in a fresh case as …

04-12-2024 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: For the first time in seven years, Perry Kouroumblis is expected to set foot on Australian soil on Tuesday night in what Melbourne detectives hope will be a major milestone in a notorious murder case that has plagued them for nearly five decades. When Kouroumblis left …

04-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week’s ceasefire. At least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on two southern Lebanese …

04-12-2024 HANOI: Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against her death sentence for masterminding the world’s biggest bank fraud. The 68-year-old is now in a race for her life because the law in Vietnam states that if she can pay back 75% of what she took, …

03-12-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite previously ruling it out. In a statement, the president said his son had been “singled out” and called his cases “a miscarriage of justice”. Hunter Biden …