International

19-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A “special” five-day session of India’s parliament is being held amid growing disquiet in the country over parliamentary processes being undermined in the world’s most populous democracy. In his speech on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the 75-year history of the Indian …

19-09-2023 BERLIN: More than 200 Eritrean opposition supporters have been arrested in Germany after violence broke out on Saturday during a cultural festival organized by the supporters of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in the southern city of Stuttgart, local police said on Sunday. At least German 26 police officers were …

19-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies QUEENSLAND/ SYDNEY: The government of Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland has stunned rights experts by suspending its Human Rights Act for a second time this year to be able to lock up more children. The ruling Labor Party last month pushed through a suite of …

19-09-2023 PENNSYLVANIA: Nine teenagers on Sunday broke out of Pennsylvania’s juvenile prison facility Abraxas Academy, according to the Berks County District Attorney’s Office. According to the DA’s office, the youngsters escaped the facility located at 1000 Academy in Morgantown just after 8pm following a riot, CBS News reported. The Pennsylvania …

19-09-2023 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday warned that a Third World War may be right around the corner which he implied would be an escalation of the Russian-Ukraine war. The 45-year-old Zelensky sat down with 60 Minutes, a famous US show where important world figures, celebrities and more …

19-09-2023 TEHRAN/ DOHA/ WASHINGTON: As part of a larger US-Iran agreement, five Iranian-US citizens who have been detained in Iran are anticipated to be freed on Monday, according to a spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry. Media reported that a Qatari plane waited in Iran to fly out US detainees …

18-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: China has become the first country to name a new ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban retook power in 2021. The Taliban said Zhao Xing’s appointment is a sign for other nations to establish ties with its government. No country has formally recognized …

18-09-2023 KHARTOUM: Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, brother of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo and his deputy has had his assets frozen in the United States, while Abdul Rahman Juma, an RSF commander in West Darfur, was hit with a visa ban. With that, the paramilitary force …

18-09-2023 UMAN, UKRAINE: David Meinhart is confident he arrived in the safest place on Earth. He is in Uman, a city in central Ukraine that annually hosts tens of thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This year some 32,000 arrived even though the Russian-Ukrainian …

18-09-2023 SAO PAULO: Fourteen people on a small jet died when the plane crashed in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state’s governor said. The accident took place in the Barcelos province, some 400 km (248 miles) from the state capital, Manaus. “I deeply regret the death of the …