International

08-04-2022 LONDON: Transgender women should not be competing in female sporting events, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters on Wednesday. Johnson was speaking as the country looked set to abandon plans to hold a flagship conference designed to promote LGBT+ rights around the world. Charities and organizations are boycotting …

07-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The United States has warned India of “significant and long-term” consequences if the latter aligns itself with Russia, as US officials expressed “disappointment” with some of New Delhi’s reactions to the Ukraine invasion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing President Joe Biden’s top economic …

07-04-2022 SANA’A: The Saudi-led coalition has dropped more than 3 million cluster bombs on Yemen since the start of the devastating war in March 2015, according to the director general of the Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre (YEMAC). Speaking at a ceremony in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa on …

07-04-2022 MANAMA: An opposition group condemned the presence of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, stressing the need for the massive American naval base in the Persian Gulf country to be disbanded. “One of the most important functions and missions of the American military base is to preserve the …

07-04-2022 PORTLAND: Author of ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Nancy Crampton-Brophy has gone on trial for murdering her husband, chef Daniel Brophy in June 2018, The Independent reported on Monday. Crampton-Brophy, 71, has remained in custody since her arrest in September 2018, facing a murder charge for the death of …

06-04-2022 WASHINGTON: The US military announced Tuesday a new test of a hypersonic missile, as Pentagon officials seek to match or get ahead of China’s and Russia’s advances in the cutting-edge strategic weapons technology. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it had recently completed a free flight test …

06-04-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on Wednesday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicine. Rajapaksa, governing the country since 2019 with other family members in …

06-04-2022 NEW DELHI: The Indian government did not apply the law when the country’s central bank breached the 2020 inflation target, documents accessed by The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) and Al Jazeera through the Right to Information Act show. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under Governor Shaktikanta Das, was unable …

06-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KARACHI: Who says that United States of America is a peaceful, educated and most livable country because neither there is law and order situation is under controlled in America nor Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) as well as other concerned …

06-04-2022 PYONGYANG: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with nuclear retaliation if provoked after Seoul highlighted its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North. In a statement published by North Korea’s state media on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong called South Korea defence …