International

12-04-2023 LONDON: Junior doctors across England have launched a four-day strike over pay that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the health service, leaving up to a quarter of a million appointments postponed. Doctors mounted picket lines outside hospitals from 7am on Tuesday to run until Saturday morning in …

12-04-2023 NAY PYI TAW: Myanmar’s military has launched air attacks on a central town known to be a bastion of opposition to the coup carried out two years ago. Witnesses and local media said dozens of people were killed and wounded in the attack on Tuesday one of the worst …

12-04-2023 WASHINGTON: US national security agencies are reviewing how they share their most sensitive secrets inside the US government, and dealing with the diplomatic fallout from the release of dozens of confidential documents, three US officials said. Investigators are also working to determine what person or group might have had …

11-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BIHAR SHARIF: Glass shards, stones, bricks and liquor bottles are spread all across the compound. The door at the entrance of the main building is missing. The wreckage of burned fans, windows, doors and furniture is lying on the floor, blackened with soot. …

11-04-2023 By SJA Jafri LONDON/ KARACHI: Thousands of healthcare professionals have called on UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman to apologize to British Pakistanis for making false, racist and Islamophobic allegations against them and creating dangers for them in Britain. Dozens of healthcare organizations with a collective membership in thousands consisting …

11-04-2023 TIGRAY: Huge protests have taken place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region for the fifth consecutive day against government moves to dissolve a paramilitary force. Demonstrators blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres to prevent the military from travelling around. Protesters fear that the government’s decision would leave them exposed to …

11-04-2023 PARIS: Six skiers, including two guides, have died after being caught in an avalanche in the French Alps on Sunday. The disaster happened at the Armancette glacier, near Mont Blanc in south-eastern France, at about midday local time. It was a sunny day and skiing conditions had been described …

11-04-2023 LOUISVILLE: Five people are dead and eight others, including a police officer, are injured following a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning, according to police. The lone gunman opened fire in the Old National Bank’s first-floor conference room at about 8:30 a.m. local time, …

11-04-2023 LHASA: The Dalai Lama has apologized after footage showed him asking a boy if he wanted to suck the Tibetan spiritual leader’s tongue. His office said he wanted to apologize to the child and his family “for the hurt his words may have caused”. The video also shows the …

11-04-2023 ROME: A vessel with around 400 migrants and refugees onboard is adrift between Italy and Malta as it awaits rescue from Italian coastguard, according to sea rescue support service Alarm Phone. People onboard the vessel told Alarm Phone in a distress call on Sunday that the boat had been …