International

03-07-2022 LONDON: WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges, his brother said on Friday; the latest step in his legal battle that has dragged on for more than a decade. Assange, 50, is …

03-07-2022 LONDON: More than a million people flocked to central London on Saturday for a record-breaking 50th-anniversary Pride parade. The three-hour-long parade, headed by veterans of the LGBT movement who took part in Britain’s first Pride march, retraced part of the original route of 1972. Organizers said there had been …

03-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A Taliban-run gathering of thousands of male religious and ethnic leaders ended on Saturday by asking foreign governments to formally recognize their administration, but made no signals of changes on international demands such as the opening of girls’ high schools. The …

03-07-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ TRIPOLI: A senior United Nations official for Libya has condemned the storming of the parliament’s headquarters by angry demonstrators as part of protests in several cities against the economic turmoil and the political deadlock in the country. Hundreds of protesters marched in the streets of the capital, …

02-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: The search for survivors buried under a landslide in India’s northeast entered its third day Saturday with 25 bodies pulled from the rubble and nearly 40 people still missing. Security forces and disaster relief teams raced against the clock to find any …

02-07-2022 MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA: Whatsapp is working on a new feature in its Beta version which will allow users to hide their online status on Android, iOS, and Desktop, reported WABetaInfo. WABetaInfo reported that many users have been requesting an update where they would be able to hide their online …

02-07-2022 Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani-origin Khizr Khan who came into the spotlight after challenging ex-US president Donald Trump’s knowledge of the American constitution will receive the highest US civil award from President Joe Biden. The US president named 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is presented …

02-07-2022 WASHINGTON: New images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showed a mysterious rocket crashed into the far side of the moon, leaving behind it a double crater. NASA shared in a press release that the collision caused two overlapping impact sites. One crater measures 59 feet and another 52.5 …

01-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING /NEW DELHI: China opposed the Indian plan of holding a G20 meeting in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and called on the member of the grouping to focus on economic recovery and avoid politicizing the issue. “China’s position on Kashmir is consistent and clear …

01-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday gave President Joe Biden’s administration the green light to end the so-called Remain in Mexico policy instituted by Donald Trump as part of his hardline approach to immigration. Under the policy, some non-Mexicans who entered the United States illegally across the southern …