International

20-05-2023 FORT LAUDERDALE: The pilot of a banner plane was killed when his aircraft crashed Wednesday afternoon near a shopping plaza in Hollywood. Authorities said the single-engine Piper aircraft went down at 450 N Park Road, near Hollywood Boulevard, around 12:45 p.m., according to a statement from the Federal Aviation …

20-05-2023 MEIRUT: Lebanon’s Ministry of Justice has received an Interpol notice issued for central bank Governor Riad Salameh, according to the country’s caretaker interior minister. Bassam Mawlawi told media on Friday that he would implement the red notice if the judiciary instructed him to do so. “Whatever the judiciary says, …

20-05-2023 QAIRO/ DUBAI: More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a new study has found. A team of international researchers reported on Thursday that some of …

20-05-2023 HIROSHIMA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the Group of Seven summit in Japan in person as the club of rich democracies seeks to ramp up pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s attendance at the G7 leaders’ summit in Hiroshima is an unexpected development after …

20-05-2023 WASHINGTON: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his handling of migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border. Greene accused Biden of abusing his power by “endangering the security of the United States and thwarting the will of Congress,” according to the articles. …

20-05-2023 ROME/ BOLOGNA: More than 20 rivers have burst their banks in Italy, leaving nine people dead and forcing 13,000 from their homes after six months’ rainfall fell in a day and a half. Almost every river flooded between the north-east coast at Rimini and the city of Bologna, 115km …

19-05-2023 BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping is in the central city of Xian where he is hosting his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations, underlining Beijing’s growing influence in a region that Russia has long considered its own back yard. The two-day event brings together the …

19-05-2023 LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced Japanese investment of more than $22bn in the United Kingdom, including funding for offshore wind power and other clean energy projects, but accepted carmakers’ concerns about Brexit trade rules. Sunak arrived in Japan on Thursday for a Group of Seven leaders’ …

19-05-2023 HIROSHIMA: By some accounts, sanctions against Russia have left it more isolated than at any point since the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the allies of World War I put the country under a blockade. At the Group of Seven summit taking place in Japan’s Hiroshima …

19-05-2023 NEW YORK: An Islamic State supporter behind the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 has been told he will die in prison serving multiple life sentences. Sayfullo Saipov killed eight when he drove a truck at pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan street in 2017. He was …