International

14-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: At least 27 people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi on Friday, emergency services said. “The fire has been put out now. The total number of dead is 27. Search operation is …

14-05-2022 DUBAI/ CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates’ federal supreme council elected on Saturday Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the new president of UAE, the state news agency (WAM) reported. Sheikh Mohamed was elected as the new president after his brother Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al …

14-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Al Jazeera NEW YORK/ LONDON/ PARIS/ JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: The killing of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank has created an uproar as commentators and social media users criticize Western media outlets for “whitewashed” reporting that appeared to shy away …

14-05-2022 BRASILIA: What would it take for you to step into a house filled with thousands of scorpions? That was debated on Reddit, where a video of seemingly thousands of the invertebrates gave chills up and down users’ spines in a thread that has been up voted over 30,000 times. …

14-05-2022 SAN FRANCISCO/ RIYADH: Saudi Aramco dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company as surging oil prices drove up shares and tech stocks slumped. The Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company, billed as the largest oil-producing company in the world, was valued at $2.42 trillion based on …

13-05-2022 DUBAI: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, state news agency WAM reported on Friday. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed …

13-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW YORK/ HOUSTON/ MELBOURNE: An investigation found hundreds of children died in at least 53 separate burial sites at federal Native American boarding schools across the US, as the number is expected to rise to tens of thousands. The initial findings of the …

13-05-2022 COLOMBO: Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns during a brief relaxation in curfew, imposed after the Prime Minister quit and went into hiding and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa warned of anarchy. The island nation off India’s southern tip, which …

13-05-2022 SHANGHAI/ BEIJING: Beijing denied it was heading for lockdown as panic buying gripped the capital on Thursday, while Shanghai combed the city for lingering COVID-19 cases in the hope of clearing the way to escape from weeks of painful restrictions. Daily cases in Beijing have remained in the dozens, …

13-05-2022 WASHINGTON: Scientists are set to announce on Thursday what they call a “groundbreaking” Milky Way discovery in what could be the release of an image of the supermassive black hole lurking at our galaxy’s center and devouring any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull. The researchers are part …