International

23-06-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Last week, a retired lieutenant general in India’s army bemoaned the volatile situation in his native Manipur, a violence-wracked state in the north-east of the country. “The state is now ‘stateless’,” tweeted L Nishikanta Singh. “Life and property can be destroyed anytime by …

23-06-2023 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: It will be “nearly impossible” for the international community to recognize the Taliban government as long as restrictions on women and girls remain in place in Afghanistan, the United Nations envoy to the country and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan …

23-06-2023 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Druze Arab protesters in the occupied Golan Heights were met with Israeli tear gas, sponge-tipped bullets, and a water cannon as they demonstrated against the construction of wind turbines there. The protests and their subsequent quelling by Israeli authorities took place on Wednesday in a region …

23-06-2023 DAMASCUS: A week after an overloaded boat carrying hundreds of refugees and migrants sank off the western coast of Greece, details of those feared dead are emerging. Most of those on board estimates range from 400 to 750 were Pakistanis. Dozens of Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinians also risked their …

23-06-2023 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has made yet another appeal to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release the $1.1bn tranche, pending since November last year, as the $6.5bn loan program nears its scheduled expiry at the end of June. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met IMF’s managing …

23-06-2023 BEIJING/ YINCHUAN: At least 31 people have been killed and seven injured after gas used for cooking exploded at a barbecue restaurant in northwestern China. The blast tore through the restaurant at about 8:40pm (12:40 GMT) on Wednesday on a busy street in a residential area of Yinchuan, the …

22-06-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the electric carmaker will be in India “as soon as humanly possible”. His comments followed a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a state visit to the US. The Indian government said …

22-06-2023 LONDON: A video of the former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, dancing merrily at a party with a few people despite lockdown instructions went viral when COVID-19 took over the world a few years ago. The viral incident in Johnson’s case sparked a string of incredibly complicated circumstances and …

22-06-2023 HONDURAS, NICARAGUA: A massive blaze that erupted after violent clashes at a women’s prison in Honduras has killed at least 41 people, police said, and gutted a part of the correctional facility. The CEFAS prison in Tamara held about 900 inmates. Most of the victims died in the fire, …

22-06-2023 KHARTOUM: Fighting resumed in different parts of Khartoum on Wednesday as a 72-hour ceasefire which reportedly saw several violations between Sudan’s warring military factions expired, Reuters reported citing witnesses. A new truce was agreed upon on Saturday, in a series that failed to stop the violence which saw civilians’ …