International

07-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Amid Israeli attacks on Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa mosque, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for people of faith worldwide to “join their voices in a common prayer for peace”, as the holy observances of Ramadan, Easter and Passover coincide this week. The UN chief, during an interview …

06-04-2023 LONDON: One of the world’s biggest criminal marketplaces used by online fraudsters to buy passwords has been closed down in a global law enforcement crackdown. Genesis Market sold login details, IP addresses and other data that made up victims’ “digital fingerprints”. Often costing less than $1, the personal information …

06-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: A Taliban order has barred Afghan women from working for the United Nations, the organization has said. The UN said the Taliban had informed them verbally but there had not yet been written communication of the move. The UN has told its Afghan staff, men and women, …

06-04-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia (WA) campsite. Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to taking Cleo Smith from her family’s tent in October 2021. After a huge police search, …

06-04-2023 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: The US is “going to hell”, Donald Trump has said in a defiant address after pleading not guilty to falsifying business records to hide damaging information ahead of the 2016 election. The former president was charged with 34 counts in a Manhattan court in New York …

06-04-2023 WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden has said artificial intelligence (AI) “could be” dangerous but it remains to be seen how the technology will affect society. Speaking at the start of a meeting with science and technology advisers on Tuesday, Biden said technology companies had a responsibility to ensure …

06-04-2023 JEDDAH/ NEW DELHI: A prominent Muslim body has denounced the “provocative acts of violence and vandalism” during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami in India, which has accused the organization of an “anti-India agenda”. In a statement on Tuesday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said instances of attacks …

06-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ KARACHI: Armed men {belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which is not only a very close-linked subordinate group of Daesh but also created by one of most world’s …

06-04-2023 PARIS/ DAMASCUS: French judges have ordered three senior members of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stand trial for collusion in crimes against humanity over the deaths of two French Syrian men. The order, signed last Wednesday, says the three senior al-Assad advisers are charged with complicity …

06-04-2023 TEHRAN: Iran has appointed a new ambassador to the United Arab Emirates shortly ahead of an expected meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia in China. Iranian state media confirmed on Tuesday that the foreign ministry has selected Reza Ameri as the new envoy to the …