International

27-03-2021 MAPUTO: More than 180 Shia Muslims including foreign workers are trapped inside a hotel in a northern Mozambique town under siege for three days by fighters linked to the ISIL (ISIS/ Daesh/ Taliban) group, workers and security sources said Friday. Several people were dead, according to witnesses and a …

27-03-2021 Bureau Report ANKARA/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: A cooperation deal between Iran and China covering a quarter of a century has been signed in Tehran, furthering Iran’s role in the Chinese global infrastructure initiative. Both nations are being targeted by US sanctions. The landmark document was signed during a televised ceremony …

27-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DHAKA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh has deployed border guards after deadly protests against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rocked the country. The violent protests, which began on Friday at the main mosque in the capital, Dhaka, spread to several key districts in …

26-03-2021 SOHAG/ CAIRO: The collision caused three passenger cars to flip over and videos on local media from the scene showed wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by debris. Some victims seemed unconscious while others could be seen bleeding. Bystanders carried bodies and laid them out on the ground …

26-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DHAKA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh police on Thursday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of mainly student demonstrators who were protesting against an ongoing visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Police said the protest got out of hand as demonstrators marched in …

26-03-2021 ISMAILIA (EGYPT): The Suez Canal temporarily suspended traffic on Thursday as efforts to dislodge a 400 m (430 yard) long container vessel that has blocked the waterway continued for a third day, with eight tugs working to straighten the ship. The Ever Given vessel, almost as long as the …

26-03-2021 ANKARA/ BEIJING: Turkey has raised the issue of Uighur Muslims during talks with China’s foreign minister in Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, as hundreds of Uighurs protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Cavusoglu and later President Tayyip …

25-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ QUEENSLAND: Neither the local and national rulers know about the meaning of “mice’s flood” nor want to know because they do not have any time for people except to get money traditionally while neither they can realize the sensitivity of …

25-03-2021 TOKYO: The Olympic torch relay set off from Fukushima on Thursday, starting a four-month countdown to the postponed games set to be held in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The relay is being viewed as a test for the Olympics and their popularity after the Games were postponed last year amid the global coronavirus pandemic. …

25-03-2021 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan – the first such test since Joe Biden became US president. Pyongyang is banned from testing ballistic missiles, which are considered threatening weapons, under UN Security Council resolutions. Japan said no …