International

13-02-2023 PARIS: Police were out in force across France as protesters held a sometimes restive fourth round of nationwide demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reform the country’s pension system. Over 960,000 people marched in Paris, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and other cities, according to the Interior Ministry. Protesters …

13-02-2023 TUNIS: Tunisian police have arrested influential businessman Kamel Eltaief, once a confidant of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as well as two key political activists, lawyers say. Eltaief, 68, was arrested from his home in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday, lawyer Nizar Ayed said without providing further …

13-02-2023 BERLIN: People affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria will be allowed to stay temporarily with relatives in Germany, it has said. “This is emergency aid,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told media on Saturday. “We want to allow Turkish or Syrian families in Germany to bring their …

13-02-2023 LONDON: A cross-party group of MPs are urging the government to block a planned visit to the UK by a senior Chinese official accused of overseeing severe human rights violations in Xinjiang. If the trip goes ahead, the MPs argue, a private prosecution should be allowed to be brought …

12-02-2023 ISTANBUL: The wounded children in Adana City Hospital are too young to know how much they’ve lost. I watched doctors in the intensive care unit bottle-feed an injured six-month-old girl whose parents can’t be found. There are hundreds more cases of unidentified children whose parents are dead or untraceable. …

13-02-2023 MOSCOW/ BUENOS AIRES: More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say. The latest arrivals were all in the final weeks of pregnancy, according to the national migration agency. It is believed the women want to …

13-02-2023 WARSAW: One of Ukraine’s closest allies has cast doubt on whether it would be able to supply President Volodymyr Zelenksy with the fighter jets he says are needed to win the war with Russia. Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, said sending F-16 aircraft …

13-02-2023 WASHINGTON/ OTTAWA: Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object “violated Canadian airspace” and was shot down over Yukon in north-west Canada. Both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled to track down the object …

12-02-2023 TOTONTO/ MONTREAL: Toronto Mayor John Tory resigned abruptly on Friday, shortly after the Toronto Star newspaper reported that he had an affair with a much younger staff member. Tory, 68, acknowledged the relationship in a statement announcing his departure, saying it had ended earlier this year and the employee …

12-02-2023 NEW YORK: For more than a century, the plinths atop a New York courthouse held statues all depicting men. Not anymore, thanks to the work of a Pakistani-American artist. Joining Zoroaster, Confucius, Moses and six other male ancient jurists on the neoclassical building’s roof in Manhattan is an eight-foot …