International

23-10-2023 LONDON/ JERUSALEM: As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as war crimes. The organization spoke to survivors and eyewitnesses, analyzed satellite imagery, and …

23-10-2023 KYIV: Dozens people hurt in a missile attack late Saturday night at distribution centre in Eastern Ukraine. Defence officials confirmed that six postal workers have been killed and a further 19 injured after a missile hit a centre late night. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram the Nova …

23-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel carried out an air strike in Jenin in the northern West Bank early on Sunday, saying Hamas was using a mosque as a “terrorist compound”. Palestinian Authority officials said two people died when the Al-Ansar mosque was hit. Although the Israeli military regularly raids targets …

23-10-2023 MANILA: The Philippines has accused China’s coast guard of colliding with a Filipino supply boats in the South China Sea. The Filipino vessel was on its way Sunday to a Philippine outpost in the Second Thomas Shoal, where tensions have escalated in recent weeks. Manila said Beijing’s “dangerous blocking …

By SJA Jafri 22-10-2023 ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s thrice-elected former prime minister, has returned home after four years of self-exile in the United Kingdom to stand in next year’s elections against his biggest rival, former premier Imran Khan. The 73-year-old veteran politician arrived by chartered flight to Pakistan’s capital …

22-10-2023 OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Israeli forces targeted the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after announcing intensifying airstrikes on Gaza ahead of a planned ground invasion. The airstrike targeted a mosque associated with the Jenin Brigade, labeled an “underground terrorist group” by Israel, reported media on Sunday. According …

22-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s space agency has carried out the first in a series of tests flights ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025. The Gaganyaan spacecraft was launched at 10:00 local time (04:30GMT) on Saturday from Sriharikota. This was the day’s second …

22-10-2023 TBILISI, GEORGIA: A former lawyer to Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in an election subversion case in the US state of Georgia. Kenneth Chesebro is the third of 19 co-defendants to plead guilty in a deal with Fulton County prosecutors. He is accused of putting forward a slate of …

22-10-2023 RAMALLAH/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Israel has arrested so many Palestinians in the two weeks since the start of its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip that it has doubled the number of Palestinians in its custody. There were about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli prisons prior to October 7 when …

22-10-2023 CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid started passing through the Rafah border crossing Saturday into the war-torn and besieged Gaza, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told media. Egyptian television showed several trucks entering the gate on the 15th day of the …