International

02-05-2023 KHARTOUM: The current situation of Khartoum; Sudan’s army and its rival, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, said they would extend a humanitarian ceasefire another 72 hours, but the shaky truce has so far failed to stop the fighting. Both military forces accused the other of ceasefire violations. The agreement …

02-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s Labor government is set to reveal a vast improvement in the budget’s bottom line next week as its coffers bulge with tax windfalls, yet the outlook will be a sober one as fiscal challenges still loom large. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has spent …

02-05-2023 HONG KONG SAR: In her apartment in Sham Shui Po, 60-year-old Mrs Chan heats up leftover chicken for her teenage daughter. Their rented apartment is only 23 square metres (248 square feet), and the kitchen is cramped, filled with bags of rice and canned food from the local food …

02-05-2023 ASUNCION: Santiago Pena has won Paraguay’s election, returning the conservative Colorado Party to government after a tightly-contested campaign that had threatened to end its seven-decade hold on power. The 44-year-old economist and former finance minister had 42.7 percent of the vote with more than 99 percent of ballots counted, …

02-05-2023 MANILA: Dozens of flights have been cancelled at the Philippines’s biggest international airport following an unexplained power outage. About 40 domestic Cebu Pacific flights were cancelled on Monday following the power cut at Manila airport’s Terminal 3, the airport said in a statement. “Flight delays are expected due to …

01-05-2023 SANA’A/ DAMASCUS/ ISTANBUL: The suspected leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ ISIL/ Daesh) group has been killed in Syria in an operation carried out by Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. “The suspected leader of Daesh, codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been neutralized in …

01-05-2023 LISBON: Three men were shot dead by a man in Portugal who killed himself too in a reported feud related to the breeding of racing pigeons. The shooting occurred in Setubal, around 50 km (30 miles) south of the capital, Lisbon. Local media reports that the feud was related …

01-05-2023 LONDON: With only five days left to the coronation ceremony of the British Monarch King Charles III, the centuries-old practice of the Homage of the Peers dukes has been scrapped and instead, a Homage of the People will be introduced. According to Royal Central, the move was prompted due …

01-05-2023 GENEVA: Christie’s auction house will next week launch the sale of 700 jewels belonging to Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, whose German businessman husband made his fortune under the Nazis. Heidi Horten, worth $2.9 billion according to Forbes, died last year aged 81. The famous auction house will accept bids …

01-05-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden called for the instantaneous discharge of Evan Gershkovich, the American correspondent jailed in Russia, in his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The US President made a larger case for press freedom around the globe in his speech. The dinner celebrates the US …