International

18-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for talks with India to discuss “burning issues such as Kashmir” while asking the United Arab Emirates to play a role in resolving the differences between the two neighbors. Terming the UAE a “brotherly country” …

17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: In the hours after Nepal’s deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India – it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash. He was part of a group of four …

17-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern …

17-01-2023 OUAGADOUGOU: Gunmen abducted some 50 women in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum on January 12 and 13, the government says. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild fruit outside the village of Liki, about 15 kilometres (9.32 miles) from the town of Aribinda, and in …

17-01-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Five months after setting out from the tip of Australia, marathon runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett has reached the country’s southern edge. The 32-year-old on Monday finished her 6,300km (3,900 miles) journey, a marathon every day for 150 days. Murray-Bartlett’s effort sets a new world record for the …

17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan Member Parliament (MP) and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power …

17-01-2023 LOS ANGELES: California has been hit by a final round of storms, bringing more rain and snow to a state already reeling from destructive flooding, heavy snowfall and at least 19 deaths. Storms have battered the state in recent weeks, flooding communities and forcing evacuations. The scale of the …

17-01-2023 BUCHAREST: Romanian police are expanding their investigation into former kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, seizing a fleet of luxury cars from his Bucharest compound over the weekend, and raiding seven more properties including a newly renovated villa beneath the Carpathian Mountains. The sight of Tate’s shiny dove-grey Porsche perched delicately …

17-01-2023 ROME/ SICILY: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italian media reported …

17-01-2023 ATLANTA: Speaking at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church on Sunday, President Joe Biden said the US civil rights leader’s dream of racial equality and justice had not yet come true and renewed his call to fight for the soul of America. Biden spoke at the very church that King, …