International

29-01-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans to name a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February and reiterated his intention to nominate a Black woman for the first time to serve on the highest US judicial body, a milestone he …

28-01-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MANITOBA/ NEW DELHI: Officials in Canada say they have confirmed the identities of four Indian nationals whose frozen bodies were found in Manitoba near the Canada-United States border last week. The High Commission of India in Ottawa on Thursday released a statement saying the four …

28-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KECH/ QUETTA/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s military has confirmed that at least 10 soldiers were martyred in an attack on a security checkpost in the southwest province of Balochistan earlier this week, according to a statement. The attack took place on Tuesday night in the …

28-01-2022 BAGHDAD: At least three rockets have landed in the Baghdad International Airport compound and near an adjacent US airbase, damaging one disused civilian aeroplane, Iraqi police sources said. The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport’s runways or parking areas, a source at the interior ministry said, noting that a “civilian …

28-01-2022 Bureau Report BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China has returned an Indian citizen who “illegally” entered into Chinese territory at the disputed border between the two Asian giants, a military official said on Thursday. Thursday’s announcement from China came after India’s Defence Ministry said last week it had contacted China to …

28-01-2022 LONDON: England on Thursday lifted coronavirus restrictions imposed to tackle the Omicron variant, with masks no longer required in enclosed places and vaccine passports shelved. The number of positive Covid-19 cases has fallen sharply over the past two weeks, and although still at high levels, have plateaued in recent …

28-01-2022 UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorise all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the Taliban-ruled state. He also pushed for a suspension of any rules or conditions constricting “lifesaving” …

28-01-2022 WASHINGTON: A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say. The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate …

27-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The looming economic and humanitarian crisis has affected the lifestyle of Afghan families as they are living in extreme poverty and are forced to make life-altering decisions to survive. Families are selling their children and their kidneys as more than half …

27-01-2022 DAMASCUS: Kurdish-led forces in Syria say they have regained full control of a prison in northeast Syria, a week after a breakout by Daesh (ISIL/ ISIS) fighters left dozens dead. Farhad Shami, a spokesperson for the US-backed forces, said on Wednesday in a Twitter post that the Syrian Democratic …