International

01-03-2022 NEW YORK/ GENEVA: Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment but the authors of a new report say that there is still a brief window of time to avoid the very worst. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says …

01-03-2022 KYIV / MOSCOW: The international media summarizes war-hit Ukraine and Russia as under; Negotiators for Kyiv and Moscow are holding talks in Belarus but expectations are not high. Before the meeting, President Zelensky urged Russian troops to lay down their weapons and called for immediate EU membership. On the …

01-03-2022 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: As Russia’s economy gets hammered by sanctions, China has emerged as the key player with the potential to lessen its partner’s economic pain but amid Moscow’s deepening international isolation, there are growing signs that Beijing’s willingness to throw its strategic partner an economic lifeline may only go …

28-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KYIV/ NEW DELHI/ PAKISTAN: India and Pakistan have both emphasized the importance of de-escalation in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, while carefully avoiding ascribing responsibility for the violence, with the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors attempting to walk differing diplomatic high-wires, analysts say. On Sunday, Pakistani foreign …

28-02-2022 TOKYO/ NEW YORK/ PARIS/ LONDON: Protesters turned out on public squares and outside Russian embassies in cities from Tokyo to Tel Aviv and New York on Thursday to denounce the invasion of Ukraine, while more than a thousand who tried to do the same in Russia were arrested. The …

28-02-2022 SANA’A: In separate operations, the Yemeni military forces have intercepted and shot down a US-made drone belonging to the United Arab Emirates as well as a Saudi aircraft over the northern province of al-Jawf and the central province of Ma’rib. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya …

28-02-2022 KUALA LUMPUR: A search and rescue mission was underway for 25 Indonesians missing after a boat capsized off Malaysia yesterday killing 11 people, among them suspected undocumented migrants, maritime authorities said. There were 14 people reported safe among the estimated 50 aboard the boat, which turned over in adverse …

28-02-2022 JAKARTA/ NEW DELHI: Thousands gathered in front of the Indian embassy in Jakarta on Friday to protest Indian state’s hijab ban in schools. The protesters were seen chanting and holding signs. “We want the Indian Embassy to go home to their country and not stay in Indonesia because India …

27-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s main universities reopened Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women went back to now-segregated classes. Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered following the Taliban’s August 15 takeover, …

27-02-2022 LONDON: Scientists have discovered some new phenomena related to the human brain right before death. According to the study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, in an unexpected recording, a team of neuroscientists found out that the human brain sets out on the mode of dreaming and recalling when …