International

24-05-2023 LISBON/ ALGARVE: Portuguese police will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the toddler from the United Kingdom (UK) who disappeared in the country’s Algarve region in 2007, following a request from German authorities. Portugal’s Judicial Police released a statement on Monday confirming local media reports that they would conduct the …

24-05-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s foreign minister has begun a tour of African countries, stepping up wartime Kyiv’s diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the Global South and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace. Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday his main priority …

23-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: One of Australia’s top television journalists has opened a bout of national soul-searching by quitting his show over the racist abuse he faces as an Indigenous man in the spotlight. An award-winning journalist with the ABC, Stan Grant said the national broadcaster had …

23-05-2023 PRETORIA: At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure is not the worst problem. The three toilets are pit latrines, effectively 10-foot-deep (3-metre) holes in the ground that students line up during a …

23-05-2023 TEHRAN: Ali Shamkhani, one of the top figures within the Iranian establishment, has left his post as the country’s security chief after almost a decade. State media confirmed on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, as the head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has appointed Ali Akbar Ahmadian, …

23-05-2023 GEORGETOWN: At least 20 people have been killed and several others injured in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in the South American country of Guyana, officials said on Monday. “It is with great sadness that we bring to you a heart-wrenching update on the fire at the dormitory at …

23-05-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Extreme weather has caused the deaths of 2 million people and $4.3 trillion in economic damage over the past half a century, a report by the United Nations finds. According to the new figures published on Monday from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 11,778 weather-related disasters …

23-05-2023 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has carried out military exercises near the country’s southern border with Israel in a show of its military power. About 200 Hezbollah fighters used live ammunition and an attack drone to take part in the exercises on Sunday in Aaramta, 20km (12 miles) north of …

23-05-2023 NEW YORK: Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people’s data when transferring it between Europe and the United States. Issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, it is the largest fine imposed under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation privacy law. GDPR rules require companies to …

23-05-2023 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: An Indian court has issued a summons to the BBC in a defamation case over its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to reports in the Indian media. The Delhi High Court on Monday issued the summons to the British broadcaster for its …