International

21-01-2023 BEIRUT: Two politicians have spent the night inside Lebanon’s parliament building in protest at MPs’ failure to elect a new president for the 11th time. Najat Saliba and Melhem Khalaf refused to leave the chamber after the latest round of voting, spending the night inside the darkened building. The …

21-01-2023 NEW YORK: Google’s parent company Alphabet will cut 12,000 jobs, in the latest staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he took “full responsibility” for the cuts, in an internal email. The cuts will affect 6% of Alphabet’s workforce worldwide, in teams …

21-01-2023 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: Saudi Arabia will not normalize ties with Israel in the absence of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat has said, according to a tweet by the foreign ministry on Friday. The comments by Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on the sidelines of …

21-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Days after Pakistan offered to hold talks with archrival India, New Delhi says the atmosphere for dialogue is not conducive yet. “India’s position has remained clear and consistent. We desire normal neighborly relations with Pakistan in a conducive atmosphere that is free of terror, …

21-01-2023 WASHINGTON: Anti-abortion rights activists in the United States are marching in the capital to celebrate the fall of Roe v Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that had guaranteed access to the procedure for decades across the US. The annual “March for Life” will begin about noon on Friday …

21-01-2023 DAVOS: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Thursday, saying it was “absurd” to listen to them while they fueled “the destruction of the planet”. Two days after police briefly detained her at a protest against a …

21-01-2023 LIMA: Firefighters have been working to put out a raging inferno that broke out in a building near a protest site in Peru’s capital Lima where police fired tear gas as thousands of protesters poured into the city to demand the removal of President Dina Boluarte. Demonstrators gathered on …

21-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran condemned on Thursday a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, which would pave the way for sanctions against the powerful military force. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian “strongly criticized the emotional approach of the European Parliament and labelled the …

20-01-2023 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is hosting Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Washington, DC for a meeting expected to be dominated by a potential sale of F-16 fighter jets and Turkey’s refusal to approve Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession. The meeting on Wednesday represented the …

20-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KERALA: An Indian state minister’s comments on culling tigers has sparked a debate on conservation. AK Saseendran, wildlife minister in Kerala, was reported as saying that his government may consider solutions including sterilization or culling to check tiger numbers in the state. He …