International

16-06-2021 LOS ANGELES: Much of the western United States is braced for record heat waves this week, with approximately 50 million Americans placed on alert Tuesday for “excessive” temperatures, which could approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) in some areas. “A prolonged and record-breaking heat wave is underway across …

16-06-2021 TORONTO: Just days after the horrific murder of a Pakistani Muslim family in Ontario, another Islamophobic incident has been reported in which two people attempted to break into a mosque. “Two people were arrested Tuesday after allegedly trying to enter a mosque in Scarborough and threatening building staff, according …

16-06-2021 LONDON: Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on Tuesday revealed it had hit a setback in trials of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, failed its main goal to treat symptoms in exposed patients, the company said in a statement. The treatment has been …

16-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Indian government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific group that it said recommended the increase, three members of the advisory body have told the Reuters news agency. The ministry of health announced …

16-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ DAMMAM: Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with protest-related offences, many of which occurred when he was 17. He …

16-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The Israeli air force launched air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday after Palestinians in the besieged enclave sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel, Israel’s military and witnesses in Gaza said. In a statement, the Israeli army said it attacked Hamas compounds and that …

15-06-2021 TEHRAN: Ebrahim Raisi’s record of fierce loyalty to Iran’s ruling clerics helps explain why the senior judge is a front-runner in Friday’s presidential election, a contest the authorities have limited almost exclusively to candidates like him. A win for Raisi, 60, an implacable critic of the West whose political …

15-06-2021 BERLIN: Germany continued to buck the global trend for falling birth rates during the coronavirus pandemic, reporting a 10% jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in February. The number of births …

15-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies OTTAWA/ PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: A Canadian man who is accused of deliberately running over five members of a Muslim family from Pakistan with his truck, killing four of them, now faces terrorism charges in addition to counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder, prosecutors said on …

15-06-2021 BRUSSELS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he held a “fruitful and sincere” meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels. “We believe there is no problem that cannot be resolved in Turkey-US relations,” Erdogan added after holding his …