International

10-07-2022 TOKYO: Voters in Japan are casting their ballots in an upper house election overshadowed by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination. The election on Sunday could see the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) increase its majority. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister who remained a dominant presence in the LDP, …

09-07-2022 COLOMBO: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video …

09-07-2022 RIYADH: Eid ul Adha is being celebrated in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries today with religious fervour and zeal to commemorate the great sacrifice by Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) of his son Hazrat Ismail (AS). After offering Eid prayers, Hajj pilgrims and other Muslims sacrificed their animals to follow …

09-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of the bloody assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation. Japan’s longest serving modern leader was gunned down while …

09-07-2022 BEIJING/ TEHRAN: Beijing firmly rejected illegal, unilateral US sanctions on other sovereign countries, censuring the US blacklisting of an alleged network of companies brokering the sale of Iranian oil products and petrochemicals. Stating that it strongly opposes Washington’s “illegal” and “unjustifiable” sanctions as well as its so-called maximum pressure …

09-07-2022 MOSCOW: Ukraine has urged its allies to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of consequences for their reprisals over its invasion. Signaling that the Kremlin was in no mood for …

09-07-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party …

08-07-2022 MAKKAH: Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim on Friday delivered the Hajj sermon with the status of khateeb (speaker) of Hajj at Masjid-e-Nimrah, as Muslims from across the world gathered in Makkah to offer the pilgrimage which is one of the key obligations of Islam. Huge crowds of Muslim pilgrims …

08-07-2022 BEIJING/ LONDON/ WASHINGTON: China has accused the United States of being “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development”, in response to accusations by the heads of security services in Washington and London that Chinese spying is a global threat and China is threatening international order. Chinese Foreign …

08-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara, according to officials. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters on Friday that he did not know Abe’s condition, but the NHK broadcaster, citing the local fire …