International

30-05-2021 OTTAWA/ MONTREAL: Indigenous people across Canada are grappling with the discovery of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children, including some as young as three, at the site of a former residential school in the western province of British Columbia this week. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation chief …

30-05-2021 ABUJA: Boko Haram has released the remaining 14 Shia students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, officials said. Armed groups of Boko Haram (an anti-Shia terrorist organization) have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few …

29-05-2021 JAKARTA: Iran says Indonesia has released its oil tanker that it seized in late January after court processions concluded. The National Iranian Tanker Company said in a statement that MT Horse and its crew were released on Friday after 125 days as efforts by senior Iranian officials and the …

29-05-2021 TORONTO: The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Friday as heartbreaking. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British …

29-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China on …

29-05-2021 COPENHAGEN: The WHO’s European director slammed the region for its slow vaccine rollout warned on Friday and warned that the coronavirus pandemic won’t end until at least 70% of people are inoculated. The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said countries and their populations must not …

28-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: With the Covid-19 positivity rate falling below 2 per cent in Delhi, the city government has decided to begin the unlock process. Addressing the media after meeting L-G Anil Baijal, Kejriwal said that relaxations will be given to businesses from May 31. He said that …

28-05-2021 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated a new mosque in Istanbul, fulfilling a decades-old goal of his and stamping a religious identity on the landmark Taksim Square in the heart of the city. The Taksim mosque and its 30-metre high dome loom symbolically over a monument to …

28-05-2021 BERLIN/ WINDHOEK: Germany has recognized for the first time that it committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial rule more than a century ago and promised financial support worth more than one billion Euros ($1.2bn) to fund infrastructure projects in the African nation. German settlers killed thousands of Herero …

28-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices. The police served notice to the social media giant after it labelled a ruling party tweet “manipulated media”. Twitter had applied the label to a post by …