International

01-05-2023 LIMA: The Peruvian government is sending approximately 700 soldiers and police officers to its border with Chile, authorities have said, as hundreds of undocumented migrants seeking to enter Peru are stuck on the frontier. The announcement on Friday comes as hundreds of people many of whom have said they …

01-05-2023 TASHKENT: People in Uzbekistan are voting on a constitutional referendum that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to extend his rule by 14 years. If Sunday’s referendum passes, presidential terms would be lengthened from five to seven years. The change would allow the 65-year-old Mirziyoyev to serve two more terms …

01-05-2023 HAVANA: Cuba’s communist government has cancelled Monday’s traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages. Every year hundreds of thousands of people are bussed in from across the island to fill Havana’s Revolution Square on International Workers’ Day. It is the first time since the 1959 revolution that …

01-05-2023 TEHRAN: The latest surveys and polls in the US indicate that the American public opinion has palpably shifted against the apartheid Zionist regime, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said. Kanaani made the remarks in a series of tweets on Sunday, days after a University of Maryland Critical Issues …

01-05-2023 KHARTOUM: Fighting has intensified in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, shattering the latest ceasefire aimed at allowing people to flee to safety. On Sunday the army said it was attacking the city from all directions, with air strikes and heavy artillery, to flush out its paramilitary rivals. The truce was due …

01-05-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, while referring to the former president Donald Trump, sniped that he was also offered hush money to keep his speech short. The oldest president in US history Joe Biden, 80, while speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner kept the crowd engaged …

30-04-2023 EASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: As an attempt to ensure sanctions enforcement, the US has seized Iranian oil cargo triggering a similar response on Thursday from Tehran, reported media, citing a maritime security firm. As the oil markets are already affected by the Ukrainian crisis, the latest stand-off is a kind of …

30-04-2023 LONDON: A massive security operation will push the cost of the Coronation of King Charles III into the realm of £250million. A huge chunk around £150million will be needed to deploy thousands of police officers and protection squads, insiders reveal. The rest goes on staging the ceremony and three …

30-04-2023 LOS ANGELES: Firefighters battled the state’s first large wildfire of the year in rugged foothills east of Los Angeles barely five weeks after the last bout of heavy rain and snow in California’s historically wet winter. The Nob blaze has burned some 200 acres of bushes and grass in …

30-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv for the latest weekly protest against the government’s judicial reform plans just days before legislators return for a new parliament session. Opponents of the judicial reform bill have kept up demonstrations in the commercial hub and across the country …