International

12-12-2022 DUBAI/ RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: In the two years since the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan signed the US-led normalization agreements with Israel, or Abraham Accords, the rapprochement has led to numerous collaborations on political, diplomatic and economic levels. However, when it comes to developing relations among the people …

12-12-2022 WASHINGTON/ BAMAKO: A Mauritanian man who received a death penalty in Mali for involvement in attacks that killed dozens including an American in 2015, was extradited to the United States to face an indictment related to the same crime, the US Justice Department said on Saturday. Fawaz Ould Ahmed, …

12-12-2022 KYIV: Ukrainians on Sunday marked one month since Russia’s troops withdrew from Kherson and its vicinity. The region had been occupied for eight months. Since then, residents have struggled to regain normalcy, dealing instead with the aftermath of the lengthy occupation, as shelling continues to batter the southern Ukrainian …

12-12-2022 TEHRAN: Iran called in China’s ambassador after Beijing issued a controversial joint statement with Arab states dealing, among other things, with three disputed islands. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Iran’s rival Saudi Arabia on Friday, where he also sat down with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. …

12-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The US space agency NASA to bring home its Orion capsule. The spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California. Un-crewed for this test flight, the capsule is expected to carry astronauts on its next …

12-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD: Indian parliamentarians, poets and columnists Sunday criticized and mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s atrocities and barbaric policies against minority communities particularly Muslims in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Asaduddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, slammed Narendra Modi for …

12-12-2022 MOSCOW: The Russian co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has said Kremlin authorities told him to turn down the award. Yan Rachinsky, who heads Memorial, said he was told not to accept the prize because the two other co-laureates, a Ukrainian human rights organization and jailed Belarusian rights …

12-12-2022 KYIV: All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, leaving 1.5 million people without power, officials said on Saturday. “The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly …

12-12-2022 ROME: Italy, which has vowed a tough line on immigration, took in more than 500 refugees as two charity rescue ships were allowed to dock at ports in the south after several days at sea in bad weather. The Geo Barents ship, operated by the Doctors Without Borders (Medicines …

11-12-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: A prominent dissenting cleric on Friday said the death sentence of an Iranian protester involved in anti-government unrest violated sharia law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press on with a crackdown a day after the man’s execution. On Thursday, Iran hanged Mohsen Shekari, who had been …