28-02-2023 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cyber security rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks. The move follows a rise in cyber-attacks since late last year with …
Read More »Peter Obi wins Lagos against Bola Tinubu
28-02-2023 LAGOS: Nigeria’s electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday’s presidential election. All three major parties have complained of irregularities. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not on the scale of previous elections. Here are details of the election process and current leaders. Eighteen candidates …
Read More »Brazil storm victims include 18 children
28-02-2023 SAO PAULO: The death toll from floods and landslides in southeast Brazil a week ago was officially increased to 64 Sunday, as the search continued for one missing person. Among the confirmed toll, 18 were children, the Sao Paulo state government said in a statement. More than an entire …
Read More »US warns China against arming Moscow
28-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between …
Read More »No freeze in settlement construction in West Bank: Netanyahu
28-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead. Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by …
Read More »G20 deadlock after China refuses to condemn Russia
27-02-2023 NEW DELHI: Finance ministers of the world’s largest economies have failed to agree on a closing statement following a summit in India, after China refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Beijing declined to accept parts of a G20 statement that deplored Russia’s aggression “in the strongest terms”. Moscow …
Read More »Rare winter storm wreaks havoc in California
27-02-2023 SACRAMENTO/ LOS ANGELES: Mass power outages, flooding and the closures of both motorways and beaches are affecting California as a rare winter storm sweeps the US state. More than 120,000 people – many of them in the Los Angeles area – are without electricity after days of fierce winds. …
Read More »Australia uncovers Russian espionage ring, expels spies
27-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has exposed and quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a local newspaper has reported just days after Australia’s intelligence chief revealed that his agency had scored a major counterespionage success. The spy ring …
Read More »US media drops ‘Dilbert’ after comic creator’s racist remarks
27-02-2023 DOHA: Many newspapers in the United States have decided to no longer publish the popular “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator posted a racist video earlier this week calling Black people a “hate group”. Scott Adams, who rose to fame in the 1990s with his satirical take on white-collar …
Read More »Qatari businesswoman sparkles at Doha jewelry show
27-02-2023 DOHA: A Qatari businesswoman turned heads at the Doha Jewelry and Watches Exhibition, pitting herself against giants of the industry while also bucking trends in the conservative country. Noora al-Ansari, a Qatari woman running her own company and dealing with customers herself is a rarity in the wealthy Gulf …
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