International

16-11-2022 KINSHASA: Thousands of Shia Muslims have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between the army and M23 rebels moved close to the key city of Goma, an army spokesman has said. Clashes picked up again in North Kivu …

15-11-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations on Tuesday that now was the time to stop Russia’s war in his country under a peace plan he has proposed. He spoke by video link to leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations …

15-11-2022 WASHINGTON: US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns on Monday will caution Vladimir Putin’s spy chief about the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and will raise the issue of U.S. prisoners in Russian jails, a White House spokesperson said. In the first known high-level face-to-face US-Russian contact …

15-11-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali on Monday for a long-awaited meeting with US President Joe Biden, ahead of a Group of 20 (G20) summit set to be fraught with tension over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two leaders are expected …

15-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has shown interest in buying the English football club Liverpool FC by entering the takeover bid after it was put up for sale. Ambani, who is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, inquired about the club, …

15-11-2022 CAIRO/ AMMAN: Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles over Homs province on Sunday, state news agency SANA said, in what military sources said was a strike on a major Syrian air base. Syrian state television posted a short video of the “aggression” but gave no further details. A …

15-11-2022 NEW YORK: At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried’s trading company Alameda Research, the people told Reuters. A …

14-11-2022 ANKARA: Istanbul police said on Monday it had detained 46 people in relation to an attack at the heart of the city, including Syrian woman Ahlam Albashir who is suspected to have planted the bomb. In initial questioning, the woman said she was trained by Kurdish militants in Syria …

14-11-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: Leaders from the world’s top economies will gather on the Indonesian resort island of Bali next week for a G20 summit overshadowed by the war in Ukraine. Following leaders are attending the G20 summit Joe Biden The US leader will arrive in Indonesia to reassert America’s …

14-11-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden accepted the resignation of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Christopher Magnus on Saturday, as the president seeks to get a better handle on the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border. The resignation comes a day after US media speculated that the …