International

04-10-2023 BANGKOK: Police in Thailand say they have arrested a teenage suspected gunman after a shooting at an upscale shopping centre in the capital, Bangkok, that emergency services said had killed three people and wounded four others. The Metropolitan Police Detective Department said on its Facebook page on Tuesday that …

04-10-2023 MADRID: Spanish weather agency said Monday that temperatures were at the highest in the country on the first day of October with further increase likely which is to persist for more than a week, as human-induced climate change continues to exacerbate and threaten human lives throughout the world. According …

04-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Amid worsening diplomatic ties between India and Canada, New Delhi has asked Ottawa that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, according to a report published in Financial Times on Tuesday. Ties between the two US allies have become seriously strained over …

04-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ RIYADH: Israeli communications minister is on a landmark official visit to Riyadh amid normalization speculations, following pressure from the US State Department. Israeli Minister Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi landed in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh Monday to participate in a meeting of a UN agency’s Universal Postal Union, as …

03-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Attending a World Cup is on the wish list of every cricket fan. The opportunity comes once every four years, the wait is long and arduous, it might be expensive but in the end, it’s worth it. Many fans in India had …

03-10-2023 MEXICA CITY: At least nine people were killed while around 50 others were injured after a church roof collapsed in northern Mexico during a Mass on Sunday, authorities said. Officials said that approximately 30 parishioners were believed to have been trapped in the wreckage when the roof caved in. …

03-10-2023 STOCKHOLM: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel medicine prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favorites, “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest …

03-10-2023 LONDON/ CANBERRA: The United Kingdom has awarded three UK companies a 4 billion pound ($4.9bn) contract to design and manufacture a nuclear-powered attack submarine as part of the country’s AUKUS program with Australia and the United States. The UK Ministry of Defence, in a statement on Sunday, said the …

03-10-2023 HAVANA: 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were severely injured on Sunday after a cargo truck that was carrying them overturned on a highway in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to Mexico’s migration institute. The vehicle overturned near the Guatemalan border, along the Pacific coast stretch …

03-10-2023 CAIRO/ ISMAILIA: As many as 38 people were injured after a horrifying fire broke out and quickly engulfed a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on Monday, according to security sources. So far, no deaths have been reported, but soldiers are always present at the building, and …