International

09-01-2023 WASHINGTON/ HAVANA: Ana Montes, among the best-known Cold War spies caught by the US has been released from prison after more than 20 years in custody. The 65-year-old spent almost two decades spying for Cuba while employed as an analyst at the Defence Intelligence Agency. After her arrest in …

08-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The alleged suicide of a television actress has been making headlines in India because of the circumstances surrounding her death and the arrest of her former boyfriend amid accusations of religious manipulation. Tunisha Sharma was found dead on 24 December in a toilet …

08-01-2023 BEIJING: China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s COVID-19 policies, as the country moves to roll back harsh anti-virus restrictions. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations, including attacks on experts, scholars and …

08-01-2023 TEHRAN: Two men have been hanged in Iran after being convicted of killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests to mark the 40th day since the death of a protester Hadis Najafi last year. Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini were executed in the early hours …

08-01-2023 PARIS: Thousands of demonstrators have marched in Paris to express their frustration about the unresolved murders of three Shia Kurdish female activists 10 years ago. The marchers were also mourning the three people killed outside a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris two weeks ago in what prosecutors called a …

08-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ RIYADH: Pakistan’s new army chief has held talks with top Saudi officials, including the defence minister, on his first official trip to the Gulf kingdom as the South Asian country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. General Syed Asim Munir, who …

08-01-2023 BOGOTA: The bodies of two young men have been found in the undercarriage of an Avianca plane during maintenance in Colombian capital Bogota, according to the airline and the attorney general’s office of Colombia. The bodies were discovered by airline personnel after the plane from Santiago, Chile, landed in …

07-01-2023 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: A six-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. No students were injured in the shooting on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher, a woman …

07-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON: A senior Taliban official on Friday slammed Prince Harry after the royal disclosed that he killed 25 people on military duty in Afghanistan and said it was like removing “chess pieces” from aboard. In his memoir to be …

07-01-2023 MOSCOW: A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts. Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear …