International

23-09-2023 DHAKA/ BRUSSELS: The European Union will not deploy a full election observer team to Bangladesh, citing a lack of “necessary conditions”, prompting the opposition to declare that the polls would not be fair. Bangladesh is set to hold its general election by the first week of January, and several …

23-09-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Sudan’s army chief warned the United Nations that months of war in his country could spill over into the region, and he called for international pressure to be placed on the paramilitary forces he is fighting, including their designation as “terrorists”. Army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, speaking …

23-09-2023 MANILA: Manila is exploring legal options against China over its alleged destruction of coral reefs within the Philippines’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the disputed South China Sea. Manila has accused Beijing of causing environmental damage at Iroquois Reef in the Spratly Islands and is currently assessing the extent …

23-09-2023 NEW YORK: After being disallowed from hearing additional cases on the grounds of “mental fitness” by a group of her peers, the oldest federal judge currently serving in the nation has clapped back with a federal lawsuit. Judge Pauline Newman, 96, appointed in 1985 by then-US president Ronald Reagan, …

22-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: New Delhi has suspended the visa services for Canadian nationals indefinitely amid heightened tensions between the two countries. There was confusion for a brief period on Thursday afternoon after the ticker on BLS International Website of the Indian Mission in Canada was briefly …

22-09-2023 TRIPOLI: Last week, Storm Daniel pounded Libya, wreaking havoc on the eastern city of Derna, where two neglected, ageing dams gave way upstream, unleashing an estimated 30 million cubic metres (8 billion gallons) of water, and obliterating entire neighborhoods of the city, home to around 100,000 people but there …

22-09-2023 KHARTOUM: For the first time in the conflict in Sudan, fighting broke out in Port Sudan between a tribal militia and the Sudanese army on Monday, and analysts say this reflects mounting tensions between eastern tribes and the army. The militia claimed that it was inspecting several vehicles at …

22-09-2023 BAKU: As Azerbaijan launched its military operations against terrorist factions in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region Tuesday, a separatist official from the mountainous region claimed that at least 200 people were dead with another over 400 injured, with no apparent end in sight to the decades-long conflict. The Karabakh region’s …

22-09-2023 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: In much of what we see, hear, and read, the climate crisis has become inescapable. On Netflix, ‘Don’t Look Up’ spent weeks as the most-streamed movie ever. Pop star Billie Eilish sings about hills burning in California. At the bookstore, climate fiction has become a …

22-09-2023 RIYADH: WASHINGTON: In a major development, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) said the kingdom was moving closer to normalizing ties with Israel at a steady pace and warned of getting a nuclear weapon if Iran gets one. In an interview with Fox News, the Saudi crown …