International

17-03-2022 KYIV/LVIV/ MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine both emphasised new-found scope for compromise on Wednesday as peace talks were set to resume three weeks into a Russian assault that has so far failed to topple the Ukrainian government. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the talks were becoming “more realistic”, while Russian …

16-03-2022 WASHINGTON: A three-year-old American child accidentally shot and killed his mother while playing with a gun in the suburbs of Chicago, police said. The tragedy, all too common in the United States, took place on Saturday evening in the parking lot of a supermarket in Dolton, a suburb of …

16-03-2022 BUENOS AIRES: People are fond of travelling and some travel as a hobby, but this family has gone viral for travelling for straight 22 years, covering five continents in their 90-year-old car. The Argentinian family, known as the Zapp family, started their journey in the year 2000 and travelled …

16-03-2022 MOSCOW/ NEW YORK/ KYIV/ LONDON: A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertilizer prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russian fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday. Several of Russia’s richest businessmen have …

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 …