International

28-03-2022 MEXICO CITY: At least 19 people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting attack in central Mexico, according to authorities. Authorities did not immediately release a motive for the attack on Sunday evening that targeted a gathering in the town of Las Tinajas in Michoacan state. …

28-03-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has been practicing “apartheid” against Palestinians over the past decades, an independent UN human rights expert said, calling on the world body to devise a list of measures aimed at effectively holding the occupying regime to account for the crime. In a report to the …

28-03-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council announced a voluntary and unilateral three-day pause in retaliatory strikes against targets in Saudi Arabia, saying that a permanent ceasefire would be possible if the Saudi-led coalition ends its attacks on Yemen. Mahdi al-Mashat said on Saturday that in line …

28-03-2022 BEIJING: China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the southwestern city of Kunming to the port city of Guangzhou on Monday when it plummeted from cruising altitude to …

28-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Women’s rights activists pledged Sunday to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls’ secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the group reopened their institutions for …

28-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing hijab ban in schools of India which has drawn the ire of Muslims and rights activists from across the globe, Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu has spoken up for the rights of Hijabi girls. According to The Print, Sandhu, during a question and …

27-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/WASHINGTON: The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was …

27-03-2022 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: US President Joe Biden says Russia’s war in Ukraine has been a “strategic failure” for Moscow and that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”. The Kremlin slams comments and says it is up to Russians to choose their president. Russian forces capture Ukraine’s Slavutych, where workers …

27-03-2022 SEOUL/ WASHINGTON: North Korea likely has “more in store” after successfully test-firing its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile this week, a top US official said Friday. Thursday’s launch was the first time Pyongyang has fired Kim Jong Un’s most powerful missiles at the full range since 2017. It was conducted …

27-03-2022 (Courtesy Al Jazeera) UNITED NATIONS/ DOHA: The first-ever Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week runs from March 28 to 31 as one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change seeks ways to address its dire threat. About 600 million people, or 50 percent of MENA’s …