International

01-11-2022 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has approved a deal worth nearly $112m to import 300,000 tonnes of wheat from Russia to meet its domestic shortfall. The deal endorsed by the Economic Cooperation Committee on Monday comes as Pakistan struggles to balance its fragile economy and manage the …

01-11-2022 JERUSALEM: Israelis began voting for the fifth time in less than four years on Tuesday, with former premier Benjamin Netanyahu bidding for a comeback in a race likely to turn on a far-right party that has risen from the fringe to become a potential coalition kingmaker. After years of …

01-11-2022 Bureau Report + NDTV NEW DELHI: India’s right-wing boycott trendsetters on Sunday didn’t spare Cadbury one of the world’s leading multinational confectionery companies on social media after it claimed to have used gelatin in their products which were “derived from beef”, hurting sentiments of devotees as a result. Boycotts …

01-11-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkey says it is determined that Ukraine continue its food exports despite Russia suspending its participation in a United Nations-brokered grain deal, a move that has heightened concerns for nations desperate for food assistance. Russia suspended the deal on Saturday after what it said was a major Ukrainian …

01-11-2022 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: For years, as Donald Trump was soaring from reality TV star to the White House, his real estate empire was bankrolling big perks for some of his most trusted senior executives, including apartments and luxury cars. Now Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is on trial for …

31-10-2022 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has seized the crew and cargo of a foreign ship that was carrying 11 million litres (2.9m gallons) of smuggled fuel, according to a local judiciary official. The judiciary chief of the southern province of Hormozgan, Mojtaba Ghahremani, announced on …

31-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: The death toll from the collapse of a colonial-era suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state has risen to 132, according to officials, as rescue workers worked through the night, combing the Machhu River for survivors. Harsh Sanghavi, Gujarat’s home minister, told reporters that …

31-10-2022 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has vacated the presidential palace with no successor in line to replace him as the divided country struggles to recover from a years-long financial crisis. Addressing his supporters outside the Baabda presidential palace in Beirut on Sunday, the 89-year-old Christian leader, who took office …

31-10-2022 CALIFORNIA: The man who clubbed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in the head with a hammer, shouting “Where is Nancy?” after forcing his way into the couple’s San Francisco home, faced charges of attempted murder and other felonies a day later. Police have not offered a motive for …

31-10-2022 MOGADISHU: Hundreds (100s) Shia Muslims were martyred and 300 injured in two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, the country’s president said in a statement early on Sunday. “Our people who were massacred … included mothers with their children in their …