International

05-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies QUEENSLAND/ SYDNEY: The body of Australian fisherman Kevin Darmody was found inside a crocodile after he went missing on Saturday during a fishing trip in a remote part of northern Queensland. The 65-year-old was last seen in a saltwater crocodile habitat at Kennedy’s Bend. Two …

04-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ LONDON: India, Cambodia and the Philippines are among the most dangerous places in the world for human rights and labour activists with protests against corporate abuses often met with state-backed violence, according to a new report. Brazil topped the list of the most …

04-05-2023 WASHINGTON: The administration of US President Joe Biden is sending 1,500 additional soldiers to the United States border with Mexico as the country prepares for the lifting of contentious, pandemic-era restrictions later this month. In a statement on Tuesday, the Pentagon said it had approved a request from the …

04-05-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israeli jets carried out airstrikes in Gaza late on Tuesday, with loud explosions heard in the besieged coastal enclave as tension escalated over the death of a prominent Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody following an 87-day hunger strike. The Israeli bombing comes after rockets were fired from …

04-05-2023 NEW HAMPSHIRE: Wedding dresses are close to brides as they hold many memories of their big day and many women keep their gowns safe instead of selling them after the event. According to media, Jesse Moltenbrey bought a kit from Bed Bath & Beyond and sent her dress to …

04-05-2023 Brazil’s Congress is weighing a regulatory bill that would shift the burden onto internet companies to report illegal content on their sites, a controversial initiative that has pitted the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against major tech companies such as Google. On Tuesday, Google was forced …

04-05-2023 TULSA, OKLAHOMA: During a search for two missing teens and an adult man, officials found seven bodies from a rural property, east of Henryetta, roughly 50 miles south of Tulsa, in Oklahoma, authorities said. Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice told the journalists at the scene that “one of the …

04-05-2023 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s warring factions have agreed in principle to a seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighboring South Sudan announced, as more air raids and shooting in the Khartoum region disrupted the latest short-term truce. A statement released on Tuesday by the foreign ministry of South Sudan, which had offered to …

04-05-2023 LOS ANGELES: A recent study shows that AI-backed ChatGPT may be just as good as medics if not more useful at replying to patients’ medical queries. A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego; John Hopkins; and other universities asked 195 medical questions from OpenAI’s ChatGPT …

04-05-2023 LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on Home Secretary Suella Braverman to withdraw her racist comments and apologize for falsely linking Pakistani men with sex grooming. UK Home Secretary Braverman has been accused of peddling extremist far-right lies about Pakistanis after she singled out British Pakistani men over …