International

21-11-2022 KYIV: Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his first visit to Kyiv, pledging to continue the firm support for Ukraine that was a focus of his predecessors, and providing a new air defence package to help shoot down Russian drones. “Britain knows what it means to fight for …

21-11-2022 DAKAR: Equatorial Guinea votes on Sunday in a general election in which President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-standing president, is expected to extend his 43-year rule at the helm of the tiny oil-producing West African nation. Over 400,000 people registered to vote in the country of around 1.5 …

21-11-2022 VIANNA, AUSTRIA: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday expressed concern over the renewal of hostilities around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site after powerful explosions were reported in the area of the largest nuclear plant in Europe. In a statement, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said these powerful …

20-11-2022 AL KHOR, QATAR: World Cup hosts Qatar have had a disappointing start to their campaign, with a 2-0 defeat to Ecuador leaving them facing an uphill struggle to make it out of their group in their first-ever World Cup. It looked like Qatar had conceded a goal within three …

20-11-2022 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the Islamic Republic as a government that awakens and strengthens humanity, saying the progress and prevalence of such a system will negate the Western liberal democracy logic in the world. A group of people from Iran’s central province …

20-11-2022 NEW YORK: Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter, nearly two years after the former United States president was banned from the social media platform for inciting violence. Trump’s account reappeared on Twitter on Saturday after Musk, the platform’s new owner, ran a poll on the social …

20-11-2022 DOHA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino accused Western countries of “hypocrisy” saying they were not in a position to give “moral lessons” to other nations, hours before the World Cup kicks off in Qatar. In a fiery news conference in the Qatari capital on the eve of the tournament, the …

20-11-2022 ISTANBUL/ DMASCUS/ BAGHDAD: Turkish military planes have hit targets in northern Syria and Iraq, bombing bases Turkey’s defence ministry claimed were used by those behind an explosion in central Istanbul last weekend that killed six people and wounded more than 80. The Turkish defence ministry announced the launch of …

20-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia tumbled into fresh political turmoil Sunday after a tightly contested general election delivered a hung Parliament with no clear winner and a surprising surge of support for an Islamist party. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s reformist alliance secured the biggest gain with …

19-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons as he inspected a test of the country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media KCNA said on Saturday. The isolated country tested the Hwasong-17 ICBM on Friday a day after warning …