International

13-08-2022 NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye after he was repeatedly stabbed at a literary event in New York State. Following the attack just before 11:00 am …

12-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall have finalized their divorce after six years of marriage, Hall’s lawyer said Thursday. It is the fourth divorce for the 91-year-old Murdoch, who married Hall, 66, in London in March 2016. “Jerry and Rupert Murdoch have finalized their divorce,” …

12-08-2022 KUALA LAMPUR: Malaysia has made a new government tracking system for the more than 184,000 United Nations-registered refugees and asylum seekers in the country a “must”, raising concerns about the risks to people who have no legal status or protections in Malaysia. Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin announced that the …

12-08-2022 WASHINGTON: Former United States President Donald Trump has called for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Department of Justice (DoJ) asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest …

12-08-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A prominent Taliban religious leader, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, has been killed in a bombing attack at a seminary in Kabul, Taliban officials have said. “Very sadly informed that respected cleric (Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani) was martyred in a cowardly attack by enemies,” said Bilal Karimi, a …

12-08-2022 By SJA Jafri HARVARD/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Social media is in love with a friendship between a Pakistani and Indian after the Indian friend posted about her Pakistani classmate. Two students at the Harvard Business School in the United States have broken many stereotypes associated with the conflict between …

11-08-2022 DUBAI: A new report revealed that the city of gold Dubai is ready to have the best-performing residential sector on the planet. In the first half of 2022, prices of properties in the city raised by 4.7%. As a result, among 30 major global cities, Dubai ranked fourth in …

11-08-2022 BEIJING: Dozens of people in China have fallen ill with a new virus that is also found in shrews, a report has said, but there is so far no evidence of human-to-human transmission. The infections were found in China’s eastern Shandong and central Henan provinces, affecting 35 people, according …

11-08-2022 BEIRUT: A man armed with a shotgun is holding staff hostage at a bank in crisis-hit Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, threatening to set himself ablaze unless he receives his trapped savings, according to a security official. The man entered a branch of the Federal Bank in Beirut’s bustling Hamra district …

10-08-2022 BEIJING: China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it should take control of the island, an official document shows, apparently signalling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered. The release on Wednesday of China’s latest white …