International

30-11-2022 TEHRAN: Deploring outsiders for upsetting security and creating problems in the region, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the withdrawal of foreign forces will be conducive to regional security. Speaking at a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Tehran on Tuesday, the Iranian president said, …

30-11-2022 OTTAWA: Genealogical testing has led to an arrest in the 1983 murders of two women in Toronto, one of whom was the daughter of a founder of gold mining giant Barrick Gold, police said Monday. Erin Gilmour, 22, and Susan Tice, 45, were found stabbed to death four months …

30-11-2022 LONDON/ BEIJING: The United Kingdom has summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering protests against Beijing’s zero-COVID-19 policy. Zheng Zeguang was called in to the foreign office on Tuesday after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in …

30-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: In the latest case of Islamophobia in India, a professor at Bengaluru’s Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) from the coastal region of Karnataka allegedly called a Muslim student a “terrorist” in a viral video on the internet. The student, however, did not take the …

30-11-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. The “cruelest” troops are generally Chechens and Buryats, Pope Francis told a US magazine. He also labelled the Holodomor famine …

30-11-2022 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Four more Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli forces in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials say. Two were brothers who were shot dead as clashes broke out with Israeli troops during an operation near Ramallah. The third was martyred …

30-11-2022 LONDON: The Muslim population in England and Wales grew rapidly during the past 10 years, showed the census data released by Office for National Statistics (ONS) Tuesday. According to the 10-yearly census carried out in 2021, no religion rose by 12 points to 37.2% or 22.2 million, while Muslims …

TEHRAN ‘Nov’29 2022 – The foreign minister of Syria slammed the UN Human Rights Council’s recent resolution against Iran as a proof that the West abuses the international mechanisms to fulfill its political objectives. Faisal al-Mekdad made the remark in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on …

TEHRAN ‘Nov 29 2022 – Describing Iran as the biggest victim of systematic use of chemical weapons, a deputy foreign minister said the Islamic Republic will neither forgive nor forget those who perpetrated and supported this crime. Addressing the 27th Conference of States Parties (CSP-27) Organization for the Prohibition of …

29-11-2022 MOGADISHU: Somali forces are battling to regain control of a hotel seized by anti-Shia militants in the centre of the capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday evening. At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured in the siege which has lasted more than 12 hours. Witnesses have told …