International

01-03-2023 OTTAWA: Canada has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices, saying it presents an “unacceptable” level of risk to privacy and security. Canada on Monday also moved to block federal employees from downloading the application in the future, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat said in …

01-03-2023 WASHINGTON: The United States government has announced plans to clamp down on child labour in the country following a surge in violations and news reports detailing the illegal employment of underage refugees and migrants in dangerous industries. US officials said on Monday that the Department of Labor had seen …

01-03-2023 MANAMA: Bahrain must drop all charges against three men who have been arrested amid ongoing violations of the “rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and association” in the Gulf country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The appeal on Tuesday by the international rights group comes after three independent …

01-03-2023 WASHINGTON/ ANTAKYA, ISTANBUL: The devastating February 6 earthquake and aftershocks that hit southern Turkey have caused damage worth more than $34 billion in the country, the World Bank said on Monday. The amount is equivalent to 4% of Turkey’s GDP in 2021, the Washington-based institution said, adding that the …

01-03-2023 RAMALLAH, OCCOPIED WEST BANK: On December 15, Twitter owner Elon Musk suspended the accounts of some journalists, including reporters from newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Defending his decision, Musk claimed the journalists had breached the company’s new rule about revealing people’s locations. The suspensions …

01-03-2023 LONDON: The United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic, a campaign group has argued. During the global health crisis, people of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a far higher rate than white Britons. Civil rights …

28-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A Federal Investigating Agency of India has arrested a top minister in the capital territory of New Delhi in connection with alleged irregularities in a liquor policy, the most high-profile arrest in the case so far. Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister in the Delhi …

28-02-2023 ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked people in a heavily quake-hit area of Turkey for understanding over rescue delays, amid mounting anger at the government’s response. On a visit to Adiyaman, Erdogan said the tremors and bad weather meant “we could not work as we would have liked”. …

28-02-2023 MEXICO CITY: Huge rallies have been held in several Mexican cities against what protesters say are government attempts to undermine the electoral authorities. The biggest was in Mexico City, where organizers say 500,000 people marched on the city’s main plaza. The local government put the number at 90,000. Lawmakers …

28-02-2023 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cyber security rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks. The move follows a rise in cyber-attacks since late last year with …