International

12-06-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin, in advance of his June 16 meeting with United States President Joe Biden, said relations between the US and Russia are at a nadir. “We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin told NBC News in …

12-06-2021 PARIS/ DUBAI: An NGO campaigning for human rights in the Gulf has filed a complaint in France against a top UAE official running to be president of Interpol, accusing him of being responsible for the torture of a prominent dissident, its lawyer said on Friday. The Lebanon-based Gulf Centre …

11-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ The human rights organization Amnesty International has said China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, …

11-06-2021 WASHINGTON: A US congresswoman has hit back after a rare rebuke from Democratic colleagues over her remarks seeming to liken the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on Ilhan Omar to “clarify her words”, but the Minnesota representative slammed the group’s “tropes”. …

11-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgement yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative program Uvda in a segment aired on Thursday …

11-06-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman has said, effectively rejecting Ankara’s proposal to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States-led NATO forces depart. The development raises serious questions for …

10-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israeli forces have shot dead at least three Palestinians, including two Palestinian Authority (PA) military intelligence officers, in a predawn raid in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said on Thursday. The Palestinian health ministry identified the two officers as Adham …

10-06-2021 MANAMA: Hundreds of people have held a rare protest in Bahrain over the death of a Shia prisoner from the coronavirus despite being vaccinated months earlier by the island kingdom. The demonstration on Wednesday night saw protesters march in the streets of the village of Diah over the death earlier …

10-06-2021 CITY OF TSHWANE: A woman in South Africa has reportedly given birth to 10 babies on Monday, June 7, the BBC reported, citing the country’s Pretoria News. The woman, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, has given birth to seven boys and three girls. According to her husband, Teboho Tsotetsi, scans during the …

10-06-2021 MOSCOW: A Russian court has outlawed the organizations founded by Alexey Navalny by labeling them “extremist”, a move criticized by the opposition leader’s supporters as part of a campaign to muzzle President Vladimir Putin’s opponents months before parliamentary elections. The Moscow City Court’s ruling on Wednesday, effective immediately prevents people …