International

05-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Australia’s defence department says a Chinese fighter jet “dangerously” intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea region in May. In a statement on Sunday, the defence department said the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was …

05-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has no plans to curb food exports, for now, Piyush Goyal, the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution said on Friday, weeks after New Delhi banned private wheat exports. “As of now we do not see the need …

05-06-2022 DHAKA/ CHITTAGONG: A massive fire swept through an inland container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, killing and injuring hundreds, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident highlighting the country’s poor industrial safety track record. The fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40 km (25 …

04-06-2022 ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan is “jeopardizing Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy” as he rallies his supporters and workers to march to Islamabad and causes disruption, an article published in the Economist said Thursday. The publication said that “ritualized displays of street power, in which political parties …

04-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ NEW DELHI: Dubai police say they have arrested and plan to extradite a British man wanted in Denmark over a $1.7bn tax scheme, one of Denmark’s largest-ever fraud cases. The arrest of hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah, 52, follows after Danish officials signed an …

04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States has said the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 will “never be forgotten”, and that the struggle for democracy was echoed today in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. China has not revealed how many people were killed …

04-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog that his country would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, but could take independent action, reiterating a longstanding veiled threat to launch a preemptive war. The warning to visiting …

04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: US President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he was considering a trip to Saudi Arabia, which would be a stark reversal after he called for the kingdom to be made a pariah state. The New York Times and other US media, quoting anonymous sources, have reported that Biden …

03-06-2022 NEW YORK/ ISTANBUL: Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations has renamed the Republic of Turkey to ‘Türkiye’ under its organisational structure. According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, wrote to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, requesting that ‘Türkiye’ be used instead of …

03-06-2022 KHARTOUM: In the early morning of June 3, 2019, Amira Kabous called her son Mohamad Hisham after Sudanese security services had violently dispersed a sit-in protest in the capital, Khartoum. Unable to reach him, Kabous thought that Hisham was either helping his wounded friends or that he had lost …