International

18-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban ‘Supreme Leader’ Haibatullah Akhundzada appointed Maulvi Abdul Kabir as the acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan on Wednesday after reports surfaced that the Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund has fallen ill. Afghanistan-based Khaama Press said that Maulvi Kabir will now serve as …

18-05-2023 PARIS: Official data released Wednesday showed that the French unemployment rate stood at 7.1% in the last quarter of the year 2022 and was unchanged in the first three months of the current year, making it the lowest since 1982, reported Reuters. The current rate of unemployment was also …

17-05-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has postponed his planned trip to Australia due to stalled domestic debt ceiling negotiations. Biden will leave the US tomorrow to travel to Japan for a meeting of the G7, which Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is also attending. Negotiations over the debt ceiling …

17-05-2023 LONDON: The number of executions recorded globally in 2022 was the highest in five years, as several Middle Eastern states ramped up their use of the death penalty, Amnesty International says. A total of 883 people are known to have been put to death across 20 countries, marking a …

17-05-2023 BEIJING: South Korea midfielder Son Jun-ho has been detained in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning on suspicion of accepting a bribe, China’s Foreign Ministry has said. Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday that Son was placed in custody “recently” and was under investigation. The South Korean consulate …

17-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies BRUSSELS/ NEW DELHI: Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has said that the bloc will act against the importation of Indian petroleum products that use Russian oil, in rare explicit criticism of India’s role in helping Russia evade Western sanctions amid the war …

17-05-2023 ATHENS: In working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of Athens, Spiros Richard Hagabimana is going door to door in an election campaign that could see him become Greece’s first Black politician. It is a remarkable journey for Hagabimana, who just eight years ago was jailed in his native Burundi for …

17-05-2023 KYIV: This was the longest and loudest shelling in Kyiv since the war began. I woke up after a loud bang that made the windows of my downtown apartment shake. It felt very close, but the sound made me realize it was the “good” bang of air defence systems …

17-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The Biden administration wants the Indian government to condemn acts of violence based on religion and hold the perpetrators accountable, a senior official said Monday, just a month before a state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The State Department released an …

17-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Rescue and relief efforts are under way in northwestern Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh after Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore, with one humanitarian group working in the affected area saying hundreds had been killed and some Rohingya camps destroyed. The cyclone, one of the most powerful to ever hit the …