International

29-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: In an upsetting incident, nine (9) students committed suicide while two others attempted suicide in India after the results of grades 11 and 12 were announced, NDTV reported. As many as one million students appeared for the exam; however, only 61% passed the exam in …

29-04-2023 SAN JACINTO COUNTY, TEXAS: Five people have been killed, including an eight-year-old child, in a mass shooting that took place at a property in Cleveland, eastern Texas. The news was confirmed to Newsweek by San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office, who said the suspect is still at large and being …

29-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in India’s capital Delhi have told the Supreme Court that they will register a case against the chief of the country’s wrestling federation. The court was hearing a petition by top wrestlers against Brij Bhushan Singh over allegations of sexual abuse by several female …

29-04-2023 MANILA/ BEIJING: A Chinese Coast Guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel in the South China Sea, causing a near collision in waters where Beijing’s vast claims have alarmed the US and its allies. Media witnessed the tense encounter near Second Thomas Shoal in the remote Spratly archipelago last …

29-04-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and its leftist allies have asked their voters to back President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival in the May 14 presidential election. Friday’s announcement pushes one of Turkey’s largest voting blocs behind opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the People’s Republican Party, and further …

29-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Mike Pence testified before the grand jury on Thursday in the case by the special counsel against former US president Donald Trump for sabotaging the election results of 2020 and the Capitol Hill incident of January 6, NBC reported citing sources. Pence’s testimony holds …

29-04-2023 GEORGIA: A group of scientists from the University of Georgia have devised a new approach for finding and classifying new planets that are far away from Earth. They have found an exoplanet utilizing machine learning, an extension of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A recent study demonstrated that AI can correctly …

29-04-2023 BUDAPEST/ VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has landed in Hungary for a three-day pastoral visit his first full trip to the country since he became Pope 10 years ago. What kept him away was the tough anti-migrant stance of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in contrast to the 86-year-old pontiff’s compassion …

29-04-2023 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iran captured a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman in international waters on Thursday, the US Navy said; the latest in a series of episodes or seizures on commercial ships in sensitive Gulf waters since 2019. Iranian state media reported that Iran’s military had …

29-04-2023 LONDON: Richard Sharp tendered his resignation as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Chairman on Friday, saying the loan guarantee to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “inadvertent”. The resignation comes after a report revealed that he was favored by Boris Jhonson as he facilitated him in an £800,000 loan, …