International

17-10-2022 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accused United States President Joe Biden of “inciting chaos” after he expressed support for demonstrations against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died in Iranian government custody nearly a month ago. The protests started in mid-September after Amini, 22, died following …

17-10-2022 PORT-AU-PRINCE/ WASHINGTON/ OTTAWA: The US and Canada on Saturday delivered security equipment to Haiti, including armored vehicles, to help the impoverished country deal with the spreading security and health crises. US and Canadian air force planes landed in Port-au-Prince carrying “vital Haitian government-purchased security equipment, including tactical and armored …

17-10-2022 NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI: On the Global Hunger Index (GHI), India has slipped even further and is now behind its neighbors Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, the GHI report showed on Saturday. GHI tracks malnutrition and hunger in countries around the world. In 2021, India was at the 101st position …

17-10-2022 LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss is insisting on her devotion to “sound” economics as she heads into crisis talks with her new finance minister, and a tense week of plotting by Conservative critics. With even US President Joe Biden joining in attacks on her economic agenda, Truss wrote …

17-10-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday toured flood-hit parts of Victoria State, including the city of Melbourne, as three southeastern states continued to grapple with a flood crisis after days of heavy rain. Parts of Victoria, southern New South Wales and northern regions …

17-10-2022 TEHRAN: At least four prisoners have been killed and 61 others injured after a fire broke out at Tehran’s Evin prison overnight following a fight between inmates, the official state news agency IRNA reported quoting the country’s judiciary. Smoke inhalation was said to be the cause of the deaths, …

16-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s foreign minister says that the US ambassador to the country has been summoned after President Joe Biden in a speech said Pakistan “may be one of the most dangerous” countries in the world which had “nuclear weapons without any cohesion”. …

16-10-2022 ISTANBUL/ AMASRA: Rescuers on Saturday found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine in northern Turkey, bringing the death toll to 41 from a methane blast the previous day. The blast ripped through the mine near the small coal mining town of Amasra on Turkey’s …

16-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party held a huge public rally in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Saturday, accusing the government of not doing enough to contain inflation and create promised jobs for young people. Tens of thousands of people came to the public …

16-10-2022 PHOENIX: Time and death are “on pause” for some people in Scottsdale, Arizona. Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved in hopes of being revived in the future when science has advanced beyond what it is capable …