International

22-01-2022 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov have held talks in Geneva over the Ukraine crisis. Friday’s high-stakes meeting concluded Blinken’s whistle-stop European tour; he has been seeking commitments among Washington’s allies on how to respond if Moscow presses ahead with a …

22-01-2022 DUBAI/ RIYADH/ SANA’A: The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen has denied reports that it bombed a prison in the country’s north, as the United Nations and United States called for a de-escalation of violence in the long-running conflict. A Houthi official and medical charity Doctors Without Borders …

22-01-2022 WASHINGTON: President of the United States of America Joe Biden has nominated the first Muslim-American woman as a federal judge for the first time in the history of the country. According to USA Today, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury is a Bangladeshi American and if her nomination is approved by the …

21-01-2022 BAGHDAD: Eleven soldiers were killed in an overnight attack by the Daesh against a base in eastern Iraq, authorities said Friday, in the group’s deadliest operation in the country this year. The extremist group took over large swathes of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, declaring itself a new …

21-01-2022 TEHRAN/ MOSCOW: Prior to his departure for Moscow this week, Ebrahim Raisi expressed hope that the visit, the first by an Iranian president in almost five years, would lead to a “turning point” in his country’s relations with Russia. In the Russian capital, both Raisi and his Russian counterpart, …

21-01-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Dozens of people have been killed in an air raid on a prison in northern Yemen, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has said, after a night of deadly bombing underlined a dramatic escalation in violence in the country’s long-running conflict. A Saudi-led …

21-01-2022 SHEIKH JARRAH/ JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have destroyed the home of a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, days after the family tried to stave off the demolition by threatening to blow up the house. Large numbers of Israeli police and Special Forces raided the Salhiyeh …

21-01-2022 GENEVA: Generic drug manufacturers will make a more affordable version of Merck’s anti-COVID pill for 105 of the world’s poorer nations, in deals announced Thursday by a UN-backed organization. The global Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) signed agreements with 27 manufacturers to produce the oral antiviral medicine molnupiravir, for supply …

20-01-2022 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership on Wednesday amid a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street. Propelled into the top job to “get Brexit done”, Johnson in 2019 won his party’s …

20-01-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI/ SANA’A: Israel has offered security and intelligence support to the United Arab Emirates against further drone attacks after a deadly strike by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group, according to a letter released by Israel’s leader. Three people were killed and six wounded on Monday when three tanker trucks …