International

03-10-2022 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel praised a US proposal to resolve the country’s maritime border dispute with Lebanon, building further momentum towards an agreement between two nations still technically at war. The draft agreement floated by United States envoy Amos Hochstein aims to settle competing claims over offshore gas fields and …

03-10-2022 STOCKHOLM: Swedish Scientist Svante Paabo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”, the award-giving body said. The prize, arguably among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of …

03-10-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW: Pope Francis has for the first time directly appealed to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears”. The head of the Catholic Church also condemned the annexation of four …

03-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BATHINDA: Secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) have released raw footage of “Khalistan-Pakistan Zindabad” and “Muslim-Sikh Bhai Bhai” slogans inscribed at Divisional Forest Office Bathinda, a stronghold of Aam Admi Party (AAP). The walls of the government office were also painted with slogans “Hindustan Murdabad” …

03-10-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s overthrown military chief agreed to step down two days after army officers announced his deposition in the country’s second coup in a year. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba “offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences”, according to a statement on Sunday …

02-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday reminded top female Democrats of their duty to fight for reproductive rights and how electing two more Democratic senators in the upcoming midterm elections is critical to that fight. “If there were ever any reason …

02-10-2022 CARACAS: Venezuela freed seven Americans in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans on Saturday, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, is the largest trade …

02-10-2022 FLORIDA: Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida’s flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central North Carolina on Saturday then move into Virginia and New …

02-10-2022 JAKARTA: Indonesian police say at least 129 people have been killed and dozens injured after a stampede at a football match in the province of East Java. In a statement on Sunday, police said supporters of Arema FC stormed the pitch at the Kanjuruhan stadium in the eastern city …

01-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report TEHRAN/ ZAHEDAN/ QUETTA: An attack by armed separatists belong with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL also known as hostile Taliban) on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assailants in Friday’s attack …