International

16-03-2022 LONDON: Oil prices fell around $7 a barrel on Monday as investors pinned hopes on diplomatic efforts between Ukraine and Russia to end their conflict, while a surge in COVID-19 cases in China spooked the markets. Brent was down by $6.78, or 6%, at $105.89 a barrel at 1358 …

15-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Tuesday upheld a ban on the hijab in class in the state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority. The ban last month by the southern state …

15-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QATIF/ RIYADH/ TEHRAN: There has been reports of heavily deployment of Saudi security forces in the city of Qatif amid fears of huge protests against the recent mass Shia executions, according to sources and social media users. The Saudi regime executed as many as …

15-03-2022 KATHMANDU/ LONDON: Guinness World Record has officially recognized the highest tea party that took place last year 21,312 feet above sea level at Mount Everest’s Camp 2 in Nepal, CNN reported. Andre Hughes, an enthusiastic climber from Seattle, Washington, said that he had the idea during COVID lockdowns and …

15-03-2022 PARIS/ LONDON: Asteroid 2022 AE1, the “riskiest asteroid” discovered on January 7 by space scientists in Europe, predicted to hit Earth by July 4, 2023 has now changed its course and is expected to peacefully pass earth, ESA reported. The 230-feet-wide asteroid was calculated to be the deadliest one …

15-03-2022 WASHINGTON: A United States official says Russia has asked China for military equipment to use in its invasion of Ukraine, a request that heightened tensions about the ongoing war before a meeting between senior US and Chinese officials in Rome. In advance of the talks on Monday, White House …

14-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s headline inflation surged to an eight-month high in February on higher food prices, with the outlook set to worsen amid commodity-supply disruptions caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Consumer prices rose 6.1% last month from a year earlier, the Statistics Ministry said in a …

14-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ TEHRAN/ DAMASCUS: The execution of over 80 inmates in Saudi Arabia in a single day has sparked widespread outcry from Islamic groups, who say that the majority of the victims were imprisoned only for exercising their right to free expression. The Arabian Peninsula …

14-03-2022 TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have taken responsibility for ballistic missile attacks in Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, according to Iran’s state media. The elite forces in a statement released on Sunday said it targeted the Israeli “strategic centre” in the country. “Any repetition of …

14-03-2022 LONDON/ KYIV: During a video address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the House of Commons on Wednesday, British politicians applauded as Zelenskyy, dressed in army khakis, invoked Winston Churchill’s wartime rhetoric and urged the UK to increase its military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. While the UK was …