International

5-07-2022 RIYADH/ WASHIGTON: President Joe Biden will discuss energy supply, human rights, and security cooperation in Saudi Arabia on Friday on a trip designed to reset the US relationship with a country he once pledged to make a “pariah” on the world stage. Biden will hold meetings with Saudi Arabia’s …

15-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani students enrolled in two different universities in Kabul have reportedly been missing since the first day of Eid ul Adha in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Resource Development has approached the authorities in Kabul for the recovery …

15-07-2022 NUR SULTAN: In the Tuttybulak Cave on Mount Boraldai in Turkestan’s Baidibek District, Kazakhstan, traces of human life from nearly 48,000 years ago were found, reported AKI Press. “We were exploring the cave in Kazakhstan with experts from the University of Tübingen in Germany,” said Zhaken Taimaganbetov, a researcher …

15-07-2022 TEL AVIV/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid have reiterated their anti-Iran positions in a joint declaration committing to preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The two leaders signed the statement earlier after holding a one-on-one meeting on Thursday morning in West …

14-07-2022 NEW YORK: The world was taken aback by the unusually bright and close proximity of the moon to the Earth Wednesday night. The moon appeared in a variety of hues as it approached the Earth in this breath-taking sight. This ‘Super Moon’ which rises in July is also called …

14-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The US Air Force successfully tested a Lockheed Martin Corp hypersonic missile this week, sources familiar with the efforts said on Wednesday, amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons. The US Air Force successfully tested its Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon …

14-07-2022 BRUSSELS/ LONDON: The euro has fallen below the symbolic level of $1.00 for the first time since December 2002, weighed down by the darkening economic outlook for the single-currency area and a possibility of a complete stoppage in Russian gas supplies. The euro was pushed down to $0.9998 on …

14-07-2022 WARSAW: A mass grave containing human ashes equivalent to 8,000 people has been discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the country’s Institute of National Remembrance said. The institute, which investigates crimes committed during the Nazi occupation of Poland and the communist era, said on Wednesday that …

14-07-2022 TEL AVIV: US President Joe Biden has landed in Tel Aviv in Israel on his first visit to the Middle East in his current role. Arriving on Air Force One at Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday, Biden was warmly greeted by Israeli officials and, in a speech, described the …

13-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies COLOMBO/ NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, bringing to an apparent end his family’s near two-decade dominance of the country after a massive popular uprising brought on by an economic collapse but his decision to leave his ally …