International

11-05-2023 MILAN: A number of vehicles caught fire when an explosion took place in the centre of Milan, Thursday, Italian media reported. According to the firefighters, four people were injured leaving vehicles in flames. A video recorded by people at the scene shows thick smoke blowing from the blast that …

11-05-2023 NUKU’ALOFA: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Tonga, prompting authorities to assess the tsunami threat, but no warning was issued, providing relief to coastal areas. The seismic event occurred offshore, with its epicentre located approximately 73 kilometres northwest of Hihifo, Tonga. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the …

11-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: People in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are voting in an election where pre-poll surveys show the opposition Congress party favored over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Hindu nationalist party. Wednesday’s votes for 224 state legislature seats will be counted on May …

11-05-2023 BEIJING: “One thousand days is a shockingly long time in detention,” says Nick Coyle. He is speaking about his partner, Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who remains in a Chinese prison. The details of the charges against her are still a secret and she has not been sentenced. Like Ms …

11-05-2023 JERUSALEM: Jewish groups have condemned the multi-million dollar sale of jewels belonging to a billionaire whose husband made his fortune in Nazi Germany. Heidi Horten was an Austrian heiress whose German husband, Helmut Horten, had been a Nazi party member. He took over Jewish firms as their owners left …

11-05-2023 OTTAWA: Canada “will not be intimidated” by China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, after the Chinese government said it is expelling a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move linked to allegations Beijing sought to intimidate a Canadian legislator and his family. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trudeau said …

11-05-2023 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill. On December 20, 2011, an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shell’s …

11-05-2023 NAIROBI: Investigators have revealed to the court that 21 bodies found in the latest exhumation have missing organs. They are expecting more bodies to be found in the coming days. It has also raised doubts that there may be forced removal of the organs from the bodies reportedly linked …

11-05-2023 PARIS: The French parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to formally label Russia’s mercenary Wagner force a “terror group” as reports emerged that the United Kingdom also appears poised to designate the group a “terror organization”. The resolution on Tuesday, which is non-binding and largely …

11-05-2023 NEW YORK: A federal jury in New York reached a significant verdict on Tuesday, holding former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and forcibly touching writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, as well as defaming her last year by accusing her of fabricating the incident. The jury …