International

25-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: A former principal who sexually abused two sisters at an Australian ultra-Orthodox Jewish school and spent years fighting extradition from Israel has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Malka Leifer, 56, must serve at least 11 years and six months of the sentence …

25-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A landslide in north Indian mountains has destroyed several buildings, the latest in a string of disasters in the Himalayas that have killed scores of people. No one was hurt in Thursday’s landslide in the Kullu region of Himachal Pradesh state as residents …

25-08-2023 MOSCOW: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June, was on board a plane that crashed northwest of Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said. “An investigation has been launched into the crash of …

25-08-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korean space vehicle failed to fulfil the leader Kim Jong-un’s space ambitions once again as the rocket carrying another spy satellite could not make it to Earth’s orbit same as before, after the vehicle encountered issues on its third stage which Pyongyang space agency claims is not …

25-08-2023 WASHINGTON: Eight strong contenders strived to establish their candidature on Wednesday as the Republican presidential nominee on a chaotic stage, full of conflicting voices and pandemonium, but there were a few important moments that we just cannot leave out. The first primary debate of the 2024 campaign in Milwaukee …

24-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon on Wednesday, the space agency said, in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed. For India, the successful landing …

24-08-2023 BRITISH COLUMBIA: Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season on record with tens of thousands of people being driven out of their homes and the federal government forced to deploy the military to several regions over the past months. Nearly 200 homes and structures have been lost or damaged …

24-08-2023 PYONGYANG: South Korean Joint Chief of Staff said Thursday that the military detected a North Korean projectile likely a space rocket as Pyongyang earlier indicated Japanese Coast Guards about firing a satellite into space once again. In a statement to reporters, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had …

24-08-2023 ATHENS: Bodies of 28 people who the fire brigade officials have identified as migrants have been found as Greece is ravaged by wildfires on Tuesday. Another fatality was reported near Athens on Monday. The Greek fire brigade is currently battling 65 wildfires, with over 20 countries across the region …

24-08-2023 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Prosecutors on Tuesday announced that an employee of Donald Trump, who was presented as a witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case has implicated him after switching lawyers, according to a court filing. As per a media report, Yuscil Taveras, an IT director who has been …