International

26-04-2023 TEHRAN: Iran formed a secret committee last year to punish celebrities who backed the current anti-government protests, leaked documents seen by the BBC show. In a letter dated 22 September, just six days after the unrest began, the committee sent the economy ministry a list of 141 well-known figures. …

26-04-2023 STOCKHOLM/ LONDON: A hotel in Stockholm, an estate agent’s office in London and a space above a noodle shop in New York City’s Manhattan might seem like innocuous places, but they are among several locations around the world that have played host to alleged Chinese police stations. With most …

26-04-2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE: More than a dozen suspected gang members in Haiti were lynched and their bodies set on fire by residents in the capital Port-au-Prince, police and witnesses said, as the United Nations warned that insecurity in the city had “reached levels comparable to countries in armed conflict”. Haiti National …

25-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ASSAM: To deter any jailbreak or violent rescue attempts, the New Delhi-pressured government of Indian Punjab is moving one of the most vocal pro-Khalistan activists, Amritpal Singh, to prison in the northeastern state of Assam over 2,500 kilometres away from the state that is the …

25-04-2023 NAIROBI: The discovery of 73 dead bodies of people who starved themselves to death near the coastal town of Malindi has sent shockwaves through Kenya. The body count in a case concerning a Kenyan cult that practiced starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told as investigators unearthed more …

25-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Right-wing primetime host Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News immediately, days after the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network settled a historic defamation lawsuit for spreading election lies. In a surprise statement on Monday morning (US time), the company announced that Fox and its highest-rating presenter “had agreed to part …

25-04-2023 GUANTANAMO BAY/ MEDAN: Conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have been described as “not great, but not horrific” by the lawyer of Indonesian detainee Encep Nurjaman alias Hambali who has been held in the facility operated by the United States for the past 17 years. Hambali is due …

25-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: When the first runway at Navi Mumbai International Airport becomes operational in late 2024, Mumbai’s second airport will be able to handle 20 million passengers a year. Once completed in 2032, the airport will ultimately be able to cater to 90 million annual passengers. …

25-04-2023 BAKU: Azerbaijan has said it has established a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a step that was followed by claims of border shootings by both Azeri and Armenian forces. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but its 120,000 inhabitants are …

25-04-2023 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his government will begin negotiations with the rebel group the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Tanzania this week. This is the first time the Ethiopian government has formally said it would negotiate with the OLA, which has been battling …