International

08-02-2022 OTTAWA: The mayor of Canada’s capital, Ottawa, has declared a state of emergency in response to more than a week of truckers’ protests against COVID restrictions. Jim Watson said the city was “completely out of control”, with demonstrators outnumbering police. He said the protests posed a threat to residents’ …

07-02-2022 TEHRAN/ VIENNA: The political delegations of Iran and the world powers party to its 2015 nuclear deal are due to return to Vienna for what could be the final stretch of intensive efforts to restore the landmark accord. The eighth round of the talks, which was paused for more …

07-02-2022 PARIS/ MOSCOW/ LYIV: French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday in a bid to avert a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine. The French leader has said he is aiming for “dialogue with Russia and de-escalation” from the talks, which are scheduled to begin at …

07-02-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australia will fully reopen its borders to all vaccinated visa holders from Feb. 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, after nearly two years since the country shut it to non-citizens to mitigate the threat of the new coronavirus. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said …

07-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: At least five Pakistani soldiers have been killed at a border post by firing from neighboring Afghanistan, Islamabad said on Sunday, in the second such attack since the Taliban came to power last August. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group has stepped …

07-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday said that no country should exploit the situation in Afghanistan for its own advantage. Without naming any country, Modi said the countries that support and use terrorism …

07-02-2022 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, as they called for action following the shooting of black man who was shot and killed as police executed a “no-knock” warrant this past week. It came following the police shooting of Amir Locke, a …

07-02-2022 KHARTOUM: Clashes between military forces and Daesh (ISIL) at the UNAMID facilities in Sudan’s Darfur region have left an unknown number of people dead and injured, according to a military statement. Witnesses told Reuters News Agency they heard heavy gunfire on Saturday around the perimeter of the headquarters of …

06-02-2022 RABAT: A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him. A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well. The bid to free the boy, named as Rayan, had gripped the country, with …

06-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s most venerated singers who sang tens of thousands of songs in her lifetime, has died at the age of 92. She had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai city in January after testing positive for COVID-19. Federal minister …