International

29-11-2022 BEIJING/ SHANGHAI: Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into a third day and spread to several other cities. The latest demonstrations, unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power a decade ago began after 10 people …

29-11-2022 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has said it will not cooperate with a United Nations fact-finding mission on its response to ongoing anti-government demonstrations due to what it calls the investigation’s “political” nature. Tehran will have “no form of cooperation with this political committee which has been framed as a …

28-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS: There is “no credible pathway” to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment. Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world. The report says that since COP26 …

28-11-2022 MEKELLE/ ADDIS ABABA: Before the war came to Tigray, it used to be a ritual to greet the morning by looking up to the perennial clear blue sky over this northern province of Ethiopia. Dr. Kibrom Gebreselassie, the chief executive director of the Ayder Referral Hospital in the capital …

28-11-2022 TEHRAN: The US government has played a conspicuous role in every single seditious plot against the Iranian nation, a senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said. Addressing a meeting of Basij forces in Iran’s province of Markazi on Saturday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said …

28-11-2022 KAMPALA: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be …

28-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country intends to have the world’s most powerful nuclear force as he promoted dozens of military officers involved in the recent launch of a new ballistic missile, state media reported on Sunday. The announcement comes after Kim inspected a …

28-11-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The pro-Khalistan secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) launched Khalistan Referendum Campaign in Melbourne Australia with thousands participating in Nagar Kirtan calling upon Australian Sikhs to vote on January 29 with the aim of “Haryana Banay Ga Khalistan”. During the past decades, a large influx of …

28-11-2022 Protests in China against government’s strict Covid measures have intensified, with some people publicly venting their anger at the Communist Party leaders. Thousands of protesters have turned out in Shanghai, where the BBC has seen people bundled into police cars. Students have also demonstrated at universities in Beijing and …

28-11-2022 VATICAN CITY/ JERUSALEM: Pope Francis on Sunday urged Israeli and Palestinian authorities to make greater efforts to seek dialogue following recent deadly bomb attacks in Jerusalem and clashes in the occupied West Bank. Speaking to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square for his Sunday blessing, Francis …