International

02-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump Jr, the son of former US president Donald Trump, has celebrated the early release of capitol rioter Jacob Chansley aja QAnon Shaman. A reintegration program has accepted QAnon Shaman, who was sentenced to one of the longest terms ever given to a rioter at the US …

02-04-2023 CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Cairo on Saturday, a first since Syria’s civil war broke out over a decade ago, Shoukry’s office said. The meeting comes amid amplified Arab engagement with the Damascus government which has been politically isolated in …

02-04-2023 TEHRAN: President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the hijab is “a legal matter” in Iran after a viral video appeared to show a man throwing yoghurt at two uncovered women in a shop near a holy Shia Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their …

02-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent watchdog body on Friday urged the Taliban-led Kabul government to review its decision to allow women-run Radio Sada-e-Banowan to continue its work and called on the authorities to stop the crackdown against the …

02-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council’s 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern. The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a …

02-04-2023 BERLIN: The UK and Germany should fill the next chapters of their relationship “with the restless pursuit of a better tomorrow”, King Charles has said. His speech, in both English and German, was the first by a British monarch to the German parliament and was met with a standing …

02-04-2023 OTTAWA/ WASHINGTON: Authorities say they have recovered the bodies of eight migrants, including two children, who died trying to cross illegally from Canada into the US. A police helicopter spotted two more bodies in the St Lawrence River on Friday. Two families from Romania and India are among the …

02-04-2023 NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s court hearing has been set for Tuesday afternoon, according to the CBS News. The former president is expected to fly from Florida on his private plane and hand himself in with federal agents there to protect him. A grand jury has indicted Trump in connection …

02-04-2023 ARKANSAS: A powerful tornado advanced through Arkansas capital and surrounding areas on Friday causing rooftops to collapse, damaging cars and debris to turn up on the roadsides also claimed at least two lives and left a dozen others wounded, CBS news reported. As part of a monster storm system …

02-04-2023 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden declined to comment on Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as he exited the White House on Friday, sticking to the administration’s strategy of keeping a distance from the probe, as other prominent Democrats urged Trump to cooperate with the criminal justice process. “We …