International

24-05-2023 DILI: The party of East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the most votes in the country’s parliamentary election, according to preliminary results, boosting his chances of returning as prime minister. Gusmao’s National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) won about 42 percent of votes after all ballots had …

24-05-2023 WASHINGTON: A fake image appearing to show a large explosion near the Pentagon was shared on social media on Monday prompting a brief dip in the stock market. Within minutes, a wave of social media accounts including some verified accounts shared the fake picture, further amplifying the confusion. Officials …

24-05-2023 BOGOTA: The administration of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced it is suspending a ceasefire agreement with a rebel group accused of killing four Indigenous people in a recent attack. The government said on Monday that it will resume attacks on the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) group, a splinter …

24-05-2023 Brazil has declared an animal health emergency for six months after authorities detected its first-ever case of avian influenza virus in wild birds, according to a document signed by the government’s agriculture minister. The South American nation, the world’s biggest chicken meat exporter with $9.7bn in sales last year, …

24-05-2023 GUAM, US’ NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN: Guam’s Governor has urged residents to stay at home, warning the island could take a direct hit from Typhoon Mawar, which is strengthening as it heads towards the Pacific territory. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero on Tuesday urged the nearly 171,000 people living in the …

24-05-2023 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch United States weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by …

24-05-2023 MOSCOW: Moscow’s forces are continuing to engage in operations against cross-border raiders described alternatively as either armed Russian opposition groups or Ukrainian saboteurs who entered Russia from Ukraine in one of the most daring attacks on Russian territory since the Kremlin’s war on Kyiv began 15 months ago. The …

24-05-2023 KHARTOUM: A week-long ceasefire period agreed by Sudan’s warring factions and designed to allow for the delivery of aid has begun after the army conducted heavy air strikes across the capital Khartoum against its paramilitary rivals. The ceasefire, which was agreed to on Saturday after five weeks of fierce …

24-05-2023 NEW DELHI: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. Any cough syrup must have a certificate of analysis issued by a government …

24-05-2023 LISBON/ ALGARVE: Portuguese police will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the toddler from the United Kingdom (UK) who disappeared in the country’s Algarve region in 2007, following a request from German authorities. Portugal’s Judicial Police released a statement on Monday confirming local media reports that they would conduct the …