International

09-05-2022 JEDDAH/ RIYADH: Saudi authorities resumed demolition of buildings in at least twelve districts of Jeddah, leaving hundreds of families homeless and without a place to live. On Saturday, the Committee for the Undeveloped Neighborhoods in Jeddah issued letters to residents of the Bani Malik, al-Wurud, al-Mosharafa, University, al-Rehab, al-Aziziyah, …

09-05-2022 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Food insecurity amid the swift rise in food and housing prices in the United States has become a major issue for many Americans. The US citizens as well as the food banks responsible for feeding impoverished Americans are being affected by the soaring food prices and …

08-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries became the first Indian company to cross $100 billion in annual revenues after the oil-to-telecoms giant reported strong quarterly results across its energy, telecoms and retail businesses. The conglomerate reported a net profit of 162.03 billion rupees …

08-05-2022 KYIV: At least 60 people are missing and feared dead in the debris of a burned-out school after a Russian air raid in eastern Ukraine. The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on Sunday that two people were confirmed dead after Russian forces dropped a bomb on …

08-05-2022 BEIJING: The streets of Beijing’s business district were deserted on Thursday as the government called for people to return to work remotely, with scores of subway stations shut after a national holiday muted by coronavirus curbs. Chinese authorities have stuck to their zero-COVID policy of lockdowns and mass testing …

08-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered the country’s women to cover their faces in public, one of the harshest restrictions imposed on them since the Taliban seized power last year and an escalation of growing restrictions on women that is drawing a …

08-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The devastating heatwave that gripped India and Pakistan over the last two months is unprecedented, but worse, perhaps far worse, is on the horizon as climate change continues apace, top climate scientists told media. Even without additional global warming, South Asia is, …

08-05-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH/ TEHRAN: The Saudi-led coalition forces and their allied militant groups have breached a UN-brokered nationwide truce more than 5,000 times, a Yemeni official said. The truce went into effect more than a month ago with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The official, who …

08-05-2022 BAGHDAD: A mosque pulled down by tractors, angry protesters setting buildings on fire, and police arrests; despite their relatively small-scale, recent events across a few cities in Iraq were enough to startle the country over the last month, and all were linked to a controversial Muslim scholar, Mahmoud al-Sarkhi. …

07-05-2022 SEOUL/ PYONGYANG: North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into waters off its east coast Saturday, the South Korean military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The latest launch comes just three days after Pyongyang last fired a missile, as warnings grow that it may conduct a nuclear test. “North Korea …