International

10-04-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: An Australian mayor said he may take legal action over false information shared by advanced chatbot ChatGPT. Brian Hood, Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council, says the OpenAI-owned tool falsely claimed he was imprisoned for bribery while working for a subsidiary of Australia’s national bank. In fact, …

10-04-2023 BANGKOK: Thousands of people have fled across the border to Thailand amid fierce fighting between Myanmar’s armed rebel groups and the military, according to Thai officials. Myanmar was plunged into turmoil when the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, leading …

10-04-2023 JERUSALEM/ DAMASCUS: The Israeli military says it has launched artillery attacks on Syria after several rockets were fired from Syrian territory towards northern Israel, none of which caused damage or casualties. The cross-border exchanges early on Sunday came as Israel escalates violence on multiple fronts, including in Gaza, Lebanon, …

10-04-2023 KYIV/ MOSCOW: More than 30 children have been reunited with their families in Ukraine this week after a long operation to bring them back from Russia, where they had been taken from occupied areas during the war, a humanitarian group has said. Kyiv has estimated nearly 19,500 children have …

10-04-2023 BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government has called on Turkey to apologise for an attack on an airport in the country’s northern Kurdish region, while a US official confirmed was an attack on a convoy with US military personnel in the area but said there were no casualties. The Iraqi demand …

10-04-2023 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has freed more than a dozen Houthi detainees ahead of a wider prisoner release agreed upon by the warring sides, according to a spokesman for the Yemeni rebel group. The release on Saturday came as Omani officials arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, as part of …

10-04-2023 BEIJING: Expressing its anger over President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with US officials despite warnings, the Chinese military has carried on Sunday simulated precision strikes against Taiwan on its second day of military drills near the island, Reuters reported. Taiwan in a statement said that its defence ministry has reported …

10-04-2023 TEHRAN: In a further attempt to rein in increasing numbers of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalize unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday. After they have been identified, violators will receive “warning text messages …

09-04-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ GUJARAT/ OTTAWA: Relatives of an Indian family whose bodies were found in a river marsh near the US-Canada border last week say they are still in shock. The bodies of the four Indians were among eight that police recovered from the St Lawrence …

09-04-2023 TUNIS: At least 27 people are missing after a boat attempting to cross the Mediterranean sank off Tunisia, according to an official, amid a sharp rise in the number of refugees trying to reach Europe by boat from the North African country. The coastguard rescued 17 others, two of …