International

01-03-2023 LONDON: The United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic, a campaign group has argued. During the global health crisis, people of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a far higher rate than white Britons. Civil rights …

28-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A Federal Investigating Agency of India has arrested a top minister in the capital territory of New Delhi in connection with alleged irregularities in a liquor policy, the most high-profile arrest in the case so far. Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister in the Delhi …

28-02-2023 ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked people in a heavily quake-hit area of Turkey for understanding over rescue delays, amid mounting anger at the government’s response. On a visit to Adiyaman, Erdogan said the tremors and bad weather meant “we could not work as we would have liked”. …

28-02-2023 MEXICO CITY: Huge rallies have been held in several Mexican cities against what protesters say are government attempts to undermine the electoral authorities. The biggest was in Mexico City, where organizers say 500,000 people marched on the city’s main plaza. The local government put the number at 90,000. Lawmakers …

28-02-2023 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cyber security rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks. The move follows a rise in cyber-attacks since late last year with …

28-02-2023 LAGOS: Nigeria’s electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday’s presidential election. All three major parties have complained of irregularities. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not on the scale of previous elections. Here are details of the election process and current leaders. Eighteen candidates …

28-02-2023 SAO PAULO: The death toll from floods and landslides in southeast Brazil a week ago was officially increased to 64 Sunday, as the search continued for one missing person. Among the confirmed toll, 18 were children, the Sao Paulo state government said in a statement. More than an entire …

28-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between …

28-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead. Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by …

27-02-2023 NEW DELHI: Finance ministers of the world’s largest economies have failed to agree on a closing statement following a summit in India, after China refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Beijing declined to accept parts of a G20 statement that deplored Russia’s aggression “in the strongest terms”. Moscow …