International

06-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: On the eve of King Charles’s coronation, Indigenous leaders from around the globe have called on the British monarch to apologize and make amends for what they call ‘genocide’. A joint letter published on Friday by 12 Indigenous advocacy groups in former British colonies …

06-05-2023 ANKARA: A fight broke out between the Russian representative and the Ukrainian representative at the 30th parliamentary summit of the Parliamentary Assembly for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region. As confirmed by sources to the “TASS” agency, a member of the Ukrainian delegation taking part in the meeting …

06-05-2023 BELGRADE: At least eight people have been killed, and 14 are wounded after a gunman in a moving car opened fire on passersby in a town south of Belgrade, the second mass shooting in a week in Serbia, where such tragedies are rare. The drive-by attack late on Thursday …

06-05-2023 DAVIS: A 21-year-old ‘White Terrorist’ who is the former University of California (UC), Davis student has been arrested in connection with a series of stabbings that occurred near the campus, leaving two people dead and one critically injured. The community has been left in shock and fear following the …

Hyderabad, May 5 (PMI): Chief Minister  K. Chandrasekhar Rao today asserted practising  the  teachings of Gautama Buddha will help mankind to achieve utopian life and enlightenment  of living in harmony with nature, love, compassion, non-violence taught by Lord Buddha are imperative for today’s society. On the occasion of the Jayanti of …

05-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KURRAM AGENCY/ PARACHINAR: Gunmen have stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, martyring several Shia teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack, according to officials. In Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders …

05-05-2023 NEW YORK: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an illness that kills thousands of Americans each year. The vaccine still needs approval from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before it can be rolled out to the public. …

05-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s generals say they have pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark Wesak, a major Buddhist holiday. The military said 2,153 people jailed for “incitement” would be released on “humanitarian grounds”, Myanmar Now reported on Wednesday, citing a statement signed by Military Council Secretary Lieutenant General Aung …

05-05-2023 MEDAN, INDONESIA/ GUANTANAMO BAY: Military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay have suggested that the full trial of Hambali, detained over attacks that killed hundreds in Indonesia, start in March 2025, even though he and his two co-accused have been in detention for 17 years. Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name …

05-05-2023 LONDON: On Saturday, May 6, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned, eight months after he ascended to the throne, following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last September. Officiated by the archbishop of Canterbury, the highest Church of England cleric in the country, the ceremony will …