International

11-12-2023 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: A US university president has quit after her comments about antisemitism on campus during a Congressional hearing triggered a major backlash. Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, refused to say whether students who called for the genocide of Jews would be punished. The university said …

11-12-2023 TEHRAN/PARIS: The family of Mahsa Amini have been banned from flying to France to collect a top human rights prize in her honor. Amini’s parents and brother were stopped from boarding their flight and had their passports confiscated, their lawyer said. They were travelling to Strasbourg to be presented …

11-12-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza’s population is starving, as fighting there continues. Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World Food Program, said only a fraction of supplies needed have been able to enter the Strip – and nine …

10-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ NEW DELHI: India’s environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, on Saturday demanded “equity and justice” in UN climate negotiations, holding that rich countries should be leading global climate action. The comments underlined India’s long-held position that, as a developing country, it should not be a forced …

10-12-2023 BRUSSELS/ LONDON/ STOCKHOLM: Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such as ChatGPT. With the political agreement, the EU moves toward becoming the first …

10-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday the country’s migration intake needed to be wound back to a “sustainable level”, as he flagged the release this week of details of migration system changes. Long reliant on immigration to supply what is now one …

10-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s wheat inventories at state warehouses have dropped to 19 million metric tons, the lowest in seven years, two government sources said as two years of falling production forced state-run agencies to sell more grain to private players. Last year, India, the world’s …

10-12-2023 GAZA CITY: The armed wing of Hamas has released a video which it says shows the bloody aftermath of a failed Israeli operation to free an Israeli hostage. In the footage, a man says he has been held for 40 days, suggesting the video may have been recorded in …

10-12-2023 MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win, according to state media reports. Putin still commands wide support after …

10-12-2023 NEW YORK/ GAZA CITY: Pro-Palestinian activists are challenging TIME Magazine’s choice of Taylor Swift as Person of the Year, arguing that the honour should be bestowed upon Gaza-based journalists who have risked their lives to report on the Israeli bombardment and siege. Swift’s recognition comes after a year of …