International

18-08-2022 ANKARA/ JERUSALEM: Turkey and Israel said on Wednesday they will re-appoint respective ambassadors more than four years after they were called back, marking another milestone after months of steady improvement in relations. The two regional powers had expelled ambassadors in 2018 over the killing of 60 Palestinians by Israeli …

18-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least ten people including a prominent cleric were killed and 27 others wounded when a mosque packed with people was blasted on Wednesday evening, sources disclosed. Children are also among the wounded, according to a hospital source. Taliban government spokesman …

17-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees will continue to remain in detention centres and eventually deported. Earlier on Wednesday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and …

17-08-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023. That overall population milestone “is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care …

17-08-2022 DAMASCUS/ ISTANBUL: Dozens of Syrian soldiers have been killed and injured in a Turkish air raid on military posts in the Aleppo countryside, Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying. Syrian armed forces responded to Tuesday’s attack and caused material and human losses in some …

17-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: The richest woman in the world is L’Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers with a whopping $74.6 billion to her name, according to CEO World Magazine. Following the French businesswoman is Alice Walton, who is the American heiress to the wealth of Walmart. She has a net worth …

17-08-2022 BANGKOK: Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people. The bombings and arson attacks happened after midnight and targeted convenience stores and a gas station across three provinces, lightly …

16-08-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ SIACHEN GLACIER: The body of an Indian soldier who went missing 38 years ago in the Himalayas has been discovered, BBC reported. In 1984, Chandrashekhar Harbola and 19 colleagues were caught in an avalanche while patrolling in the Siachen glacier along the India-Pakistan …

16-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: Police believe the son of the prime suspect in the killings of four Muslim men may have played a role in the murders, which have shaken the Muslim community in New Mexico’s largest city. Cellphone data shows Shaheen Syed, 21, was in the same “general area” of …

16-08-2022 TAIPEI: Taiwan accused China of exaggeration on Tuesday after the Chinese military published footage of the strategically located Penghu islands, where there is a major Taiwanese air base, saying it was not true Chinese forces had come near the islands. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has carried …