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20-05-2023 ROME/ BOLOGNA: More than 20 rivers have burst their banks in Italy, leaving nine people dead and forcing 13,000 from their homes after six months’ rainfall fell in a day and a half. Almost every river flooded between the north-east coast at Rimini and the city of Bologna, 115km …

19-05-2023 BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping is in the central city of Xian where he is hosting his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations, underlining Beijing’s growing influence in a region that Russia has long considered its own back yard. The two-day event brings together the …

19-05-2023 LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced Japanese investment of more than $22bn in the United Kingdom, including funding for offshore wind power and other clean energy projects, but accepted carmakers’ concerns about Brexit trade rules. Sunak arrived in Japan on Thursday for a Group of Seven leaders’ …

19-05-2023 HIROSHIMA: By some accounts, sanctions against Russia have left it more isolated than at any point since the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the allies of World War I put the country under a blockade. At the Group of Seven summit taking place in Japan’s Hiroshima …

19-05-2023 NEW YORK: An Islamic State supporter behind the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 has been told he will die in prison serving multiple life sentences. Sayfullo Saipov killed eight when he drove a truck at pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan street in 2017. He was …

19-05-2023 PRETORIA: South Africa’s struggling state power utility Eskom has predicted a “very difficult winter” starting in June, warning that it may have to increase electricity cuts to an unprecedented level amid the country’s worst-ever power crisis. Many households and businesses in Africa’s most industrialized economy are already facing scheduled …

19-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: As soon as Akram saw the news last week that Imran Khan had been arrested, he thought of stepping out and protesting against what he believed was an “abduction” of a former prime minister. “I messaged our WhatsApp group of …

19-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: On Saturday, as “extremely severe” Cyclone Mocha gathered speed in the Indian Ocean and tracked a straight course for Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine coast, Hla Tun made a critical decision. While the vast majority of the residents of the seaside city of Sittwe, including his wife and daughter, headed …

19-05-2023 ANKARA: Turkish opposition leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has promised to send “10 million refugees” home if he wins a May 28 run-off as he shifts to a sharply more anti-migrant tone to try to win nationalist votes and defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kilicdaroglu, candidate of a …

19-05-2023 JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities have beefed up security in Jerusalem, particularly in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, ahead of the annual “flag day” march by Orthodox Jews and settlers amid an already tense situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. More than 2,000 police were deployed as flag-bearing marchers …