International

03-11-2022 TEHRAN: Police in Iran have launched an investigation after a video showed riot police repeatedly kicking and then shooting a man. The two-minute clip was posted on social media on Tuesday, in the seventh week of the protests that erupted across Iran after the death of a young woman …

03-11-2022 MOGADISHU: Somalia can lay claim through no choice of its own people to being the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa. Data collected by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the testimonies of local journalists demonstrate that media rights are flagrantly violated on a daily basis. Threats …

03-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: President Xi Jinping has said China will continue to support Pakistan to help it stabilise its economy, as he hosted Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for talks. The leaders met at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Wednesday, the last day of …

03-11-2022 RIYADH/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States has responded to reports of threats from Iran against Saudi Arabia by saying it is concerned and will not hesitate to respond if necessary. “We are concerned about the threat picture, and we remain in constant contact through military and intelligence channels with …

03-11-2022 SAN FRANCISCO: The man charged with breaking into US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a “suicide mission” and had planned to target more politicians, according to court documents prosecutors filed on Tuesday. Prosecutors’ motion seeking to …

02-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MORBI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said lessons must be learned as he visited the site of a bridge collapse that killed 135 people and met some of the injured in hospital on Tuesday. Army, navy and national disaster response force teams continued their search …

02-11-2022 WASHINGTON/ VIRGINIA: A US judge has sentenced a Kansas woman who led an all-female ISIL (ISIS) battalion in Syria to the maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, after Allison Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to “terrorism” charges earlier this year. During a hearing in federal court in northern Virginia on …

02-11-2022 TEHRAN: More than 300 Iranian journalists on Sunday called for the release of colleagues who were detained amid nationwide demonstrations. They signed a statement published in the Iranian Etemad and other newspapers in which they accused authorities of arresting members of the press and “stripping them of their civil …

02-11-2022 KINSHASA/ KIGALI: The African Union (AU) on Sunday called for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after Congolese rebels captured strategic terrain in the east of the country. The March 23 Movement, widely known as M23, tightened its grip on several territories by seizing the towns …

01-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MORBI: Four-year-old Jiyansh started crying for his parents after hours of being entertained by neighbours, who plied him with toys and sweets but his parents, Hardik and Miral Faldu are dead. There were among at least 141 people who died when the Morbi Bridge, a …