International

29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region. At least 24 soldiers were killed …

29-01-2023 WELLINGTON: Authorities in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, began mopping up on Saturday after torrential rains brought flash flooding and evacuations, with at least two people confirmed dead and two missing in the widespread inundation. A state of emergency remained in place in the city of 1.6 million people …

29-01-2023 WASHINGTON: A four-star US Air Force general said in a memo that his gut told him the United States would fight China in the next two years, comments that Pentagon officials said were not consistent with American military assessments. “I hope I am wrong,” General Mike Minihan, who heads …

29-01-2023 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: A loud explosion at a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan was caused by an “unsuccessful” drone attack, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, citing the defence ministry. “One of (the drones) was hit by the … air defence and the other two were caught …

29-01-2023 DAMASCUS/ TAMPA, FLORIDA: Syria has rejected a report by the global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Damascus for a 2018 poison gas attack which killed 43 people, calling it “false”. Syria’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) …

29-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets have crashed after an apparent midair collision while on exercises about 300km (185 miles) south of the capital, New Delhi. Both aircraft had taken off on Saturday morning from the Gwalior airbase, about 50km (30 miles) east of where …

29-01-2023 WASHINGTON: The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.” The police officers, who were also Black, were …

29-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian court has ruled that cow dung dwellings are immune to nuclear radiation, such as atomic bomb fallout. Cows are deemed sacred in India, and authorities have pushed against livestock slaughter in recent years in collaboration with Hindu nationalist parties. The Gujarat High Court, …

29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: More than 160 people have died from the cold in Afghanistan this month in the worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday, as residents described being unable to afford fuel to heat homes in temperatures well below freezing. “162 …

29-01-2023 BAKU: A gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran on Friday, in an attack Baku branded an “act of terrorism” that it said was the result of Tehran failing to heed its calls for improved security. Police in Tehran said …