International

10-11-2022 DAMASCUS/ BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN: Air attacks have struck eastern Syria along the Iraqi border, hitting Iran-backed fighters and inflicting casualties, a Syrian war monitor, Iranian state television and Iraqi paramilitary officers have said. The number of casualties has not been confirmed but some of those killed in the attack late …

10-11-2022 TEHRAN: Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib warned the British government that it will have to pay the price for its measures aimed at creating insecurity in Iran. In a recent interview with Khamenei.ir, the minister of intelligence stated, “England will pay for the measures it has taken to make …

10-11-2022 Bureau Report + PTI NEW DELHI: The family of the 2012 Chhawla gangrape victim on Wednesday said they would appeal against the Supreme Court’s acquittal of the three accused in the case. The three men were accused of abducting, raping and killing the 19-year-old woman in February 2012. Her …

10-11-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australia’s biggest health insurer Medibank, recently hit by a massive cyber hack, said on Wednesday the hacker could release more stolen data after the company refused to make ransom payments. Some names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers of international students and health claims data …

10-11-2022 PHOENIX, ARIZ/ BIRMINGHAM, MICH: Republicans were favored to wrest control of the US House of Representatives away from President Joe Biden’s Democrats based on early returns in Tuesday’s midterm elections, though the prospects of a “red wave” appeared to have dimmed. With polls closed across most of the country, …

09-11-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY: As Babar Azam and Co sneaked into the T20 World Cup semi-final, Pakistan fans started likening the team’s run Imran Khan and his team had during the 1992 World Cup. And it seems the dream is alive as Pakistan thrashed New Zealand to secure a place …

09-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: India will continue buying Russian oil as it is advantageous for the country, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said during his first visit to Russia since it invaded Ukraine, in a move counter to Western efforts to cripple Russia’s economy with sanctions. Jaishankar met …

09-11-2022 MONTREAL: Global air travel continued its recovery from the pandemic in September as passenger traffic surged 57 percent compared with 2021, trade association figures have shown. Passenger traffic reached 74 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September as people rushed back to travel following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, data …

09-11-2022 LOURDES: Eleven former or serving French bishops have been accused of sexual violence, including a cardinal who has confessed to assaulting a minor more than three decades ago, a senior church body announced Monday. Jean-Pierre Ricard, a long-standing bishop of Bordeaux who was made a cardinal by Pope Francis …

09-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The life of jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah is in great danger, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, renewing a call for Egypt to immediately release him. “I urge the Egyptian government to immediately release Abd el-Fattah from prison and provide …