International

15-06-2021 HAGUE/ MANILA: The outgoing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has sought authorization from The Hague tribunal to open a full investigation into Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing war on drugs that killed thousands of people, including innocent children. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, whose term ends on Tuesday, said a …

15-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia says it will allow a Tamil family of four to leave immigration detention on remote Christmas Island, but instead of allowing those to return to their home in Queensland will place them into “community detention” in the western …

14-06-2021 NAYPYITAW: After five years as the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself in a familiar place: under house arrest while facing trumped-up charges leveled by a military dictatorship, with her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), on the verge of dissolution. On Monday, …

14-06-2021 BEIJING: A Chinese spacecraft will blast off from the Gobi Desert on a Long March rocket in the coming days, ferrying three men to an orbiting space module for a three-month stay, the first time China has sent humans into space for nearly five years. Shenzhou-12, meaning “Divine Vessel”, …

14-06-202 Bureau Report + Agencies WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday panned a movie filmmakers are thinking about making about her response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks as poorly timed and focused on the wrong subject. The US-backed film “They Are Us” has sparked an intense …

13-06-2021 DAMASCUS: At least 13 people, including two medical staff, have been killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks in the northern Syrian town of Afrin controlled by Turkey-backed fighters, activists and an aid group said on Sunday. The first attack struck a residential area, while the second …

13-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA: Armed assailants linked with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban/ Boko Haram) have killed 53 Shia people in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to police and local residents, the latest violence to hit the restive region. Many motorcycle-riding gunmen known locally as bandits on Thursday …

13-06-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven (G7) nations have unveiled a significant infrastructure initiative for lower-income countries in a bid to counter China’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, dubbed the “New Silk Road”. Promising to “collectively catalyse” hundreds of billions in infrastructure investments for low- and middle-income countries, the G7 …

13-06-2021 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year hold on power is set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged to heal a nation bitterly divided over the departure of the country’s longest serving leader. Netanyahu, 71, the most …

12-06-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: A teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer has been given a special journalism award by the Pulitzer Prize board. Darnella Frazier, now 18, was awarded the citation for her courage, the Pulitzer committee said. Her film spurred protests for racial justice …