International

25-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: When the first runway at Navi Mumbai International Airport becomes operational in late 2024, Mumbai’s second airport will be able to handle 20 million passengers a year. Once completed in 2032, the airport will ultimately be able to cater to 90 million annual passengers. …

25-04-2023 BAKU: Azerbaijan has said it has established a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a step that was followed by claims of border shootings by both Azeri and Armenian forces. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but its 120,000 inhabitants are …

25-04-2023 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his government will begin negotiations with the rebel group the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Tanzania this week. This is the first time the Ethiopian government has formally said it would negotiate with the OLA, which has been battling …

25-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Foreign nations are rushing to get their citizens out of Sudan as rival military faction’s battle in the capital Khartoum where millions of residents are trapped inside their homes, many running low on water and food. The eruption of fighting on April 15 between the army and the …

25-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel has detained a Jordanian member of parliament in a case related to the alleged smuggling of arms and gold into the occupied West Bank, Jordan’s foreign ministry said. Imad al-Adwan, a member of Jordan’s parliament who had crossed a main border crossing along the Jordan River earlier …

25-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Top Indian wrestlers are protesting again in Delhi, demanding the arrest of the chief of the sport’s governing body for alleged sexual harassment. They had called off protests in January after the government promised to investigate their complaints. The athletes had accused Wrestling Federation of …

25-04-2023 KYIV: The 33-year-old son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he served with the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine for nearly six months. Nikolai Peskov said “it was my duty… I couldn’t sit to one side watching as friends and others went off there.” Wagner is called a “private …

25-04-2023 MEXICO CITY: Thousands of migrants are marching through southern Mexico as part of a mass protest to demand the end of detention centres. Last month, 40 people were killed when fire ripped through a facility in Ciudad Juarez, a city on the US border. “The only thing we are …

24-04-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ BIHAR: Ash, soot-stained walls, burnt furniture and charred pages: that’s all that remains of a 113-year-old madrassa library in India that once housed more than 4,500 books, including ancient manuscripts and sacred Islamic texts written in beautiful calligraphy. The library was part of …

24-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australia will speed up efforts to buy longer range missiles to counter the growing threat from China, a major defence review says. It warns the country can no longer be protected by its geographic isolation in the “missile age”. The government will spend …