International

04-05-2022 JERUSALEM: The Israeli regime is holding more than 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial in its detention centers across the occupied territories, a rights group said. HaMoked, an Israeli rights group that regularly gathers figures from the regime’s prison authorities, announced on Monday that as of May there …

04-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged 10 billion euros ($10.51 billion) to help India achieve its climate goals after meeting its Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin on Monday, but the leaders remained far apart in their stance on the Ukraine war. In …

04-05-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the “unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organizations”, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The document does not provide any details of which individuals or entities may be affected by the measures. …

04-05-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized as “radical” a draft US Supreme Court decision that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a bombshell that was denounced by Democrats and stunned even some moderate Republicans. The court confirmed that the text, published …

03-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s western state of Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heatstroke since late March, the highest toll in the past five years, with more fatalities likely elsewhere in a country sweltering in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Scientists have linked the early onset of an …

03-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day to spotlight media freedom around the world. This year, UNESCO’s theme, Journalism Under Digital Siege, will focus on the effect of digitization on freedom of expression, access to information …

03-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ DAMASCUS/ ISLAMABAD: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan’s women, girls and human rights, Rina Amiri, said that at an Iftar dinner ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries “agreed that the Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls.” Amiri said that …

03-05-2022 KYIV: Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ran into delays on Monday and hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, the last stronghold of resistance to the Russian siege. It was not immediately clear what was causing the hold-up. A …

03-05-2022 LONDON: A 34-year-old man in England, Harry Matadeen, has claimed that drinking his own urine daily “cured” his depression and made him look 10 years younger, media reported. The publication cited New York Post as stating that Matadeen’s desperation to get rid of his mental health issues drove him …

03-05-2022 SEOUL: South Korea’s consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years in April on the back of surging food and energy prices, in the latest sign of high inflation taking off in Asia. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its consumer price index (CPI) rise 4.8 percent last …