International

17-03-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Yemeni security forces foiled a terror plot hatched by Saudi Arabia’s spy agencies to threaten security and stability in the capital Sana’a, as Riyadh and its allies maintain a deadly war and blockade against Yemen. The Saudi General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), according to Yemen’s official Saba news …

17-03-2022 TEHRAN: Two detained British-Iranians, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, have left Iran after lengthy prison terms, and third, Morad Tahbaz, has been released from prison on furlough. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the development on Wednesday after the Iranian media said the British …

17-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MAHARASHTRA: Almas, a hijab-wearing Muslim student in India, said she would rather not go to college than go without hijab, reported NDTV’s Reality Check. She is one of the students who protested in court against the government’s ban on hijab by the Karnataka High Court. …

17-03-2022 KYIV/LVIV/ MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine both emphasised new-found scope for compromise on Wednesday as peace talks were set to resume three weeks into a Russian assault that has so far failed to topple the Ukrainian government. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the talks were becoming “more realistic”, while Russian …

16-03-2022 WASHINGTON: A three-year-old American child accidentally shot and killed his mother while playing with a gun in the suburbs of Chicago, police said. The tragedy, all too common in the United States, took place on Saturday evening in the parking lot of a supermarket in Dolton, a suburb of …

16-03-2022 BUENOS AIRES: People are fond of travelling and some travel as a hobby, but this family has gone viral for travelling for straight 22 years, covering five continents in their 90-year-old car. The Argentinian family, known as the Zapp family, started their journey in the year 2000 and travelled …

16-03-2022 MOSCOW/ NEW YORK/ KYIV/ LONDON: A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertilizer prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russian fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday. Several of Russia’s richest businessmen have …

16-03-2022 LONDON: Oil prices fell around $7 a barrel on Monday as investors pinned hopes on diplomatic efforts between Ukraine and Russia to end their conflict, while a surge in COVID-19 cases in China spooked the markets. Brent was down by $6.78, or 6%, at $105.89 a barrel at 1358 …

15-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Tuesday upheld a ban on the hijab in class in the state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority. The ban last month by the southern state …

15-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QATIF/ RIYADH/ TEHRAN: There has been reports of heavily deployment of Saudi security forces in the city of Qatif amid fears of huge protests against the recent mass Shia executions, according to sources and social media users. The Saudi regime executed as many as …