International

13-02-2023 LONDON: A cross-party group of MPs are urging the government to block a planned visit to the UK by a senior Chinese official accused of overseeing severe human rights violations in Xinjiang. If the trip goes ahead, the MPs argue, a private prosecution should be allowed to be brought …

12-02-2023 ISTANBUL: The wounded children in Adana City Hospital are too young to know how much they’ve lost. I watched doctors in the intensive care unit bottle-feed an injured six-month-old girl whose parents can’t be found. There are hundreds more cases of unidentified children whose parents are dead or untraceable. …

13-02-2023 MOSCOW/ BUENOS AIRES: More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say. The latest arrivals were all in the final weeks of pregnancy, according to the national migration agency. It is believed the women want to …

13-02-2023 WARSAW: One of Ukraine’s closest allies has cast doubt on whether it would be able to supply President Volodymyr Zelenksy with the fighter jets he says are needed to win the war with Russia. Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, said sending F-16 aircraft …

13-02-2023 WASHINGTON/ OTTAWA: Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object “violated Canadian airspace” and was shot down over Yukon in north-west Canada. Both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled to track down the object …

12-02-2023 TOTONTO/ MONTREAL: Toronto Mayor John Tory resigned abruptly on Friday, shortly after the Toronto Star newspaper reported that he had an affair with a much younger staff member. Tory, 68, acknowledged the relationship in a statement announcing his departure, saying it had ended earlier this year and the employee …

12-02-2023 NEW YORK: For more than a century, the plinths atop a New York courthouse held statues all depicting men. Not anymore, thanks to the work of a Pakistani-American artist. Joining Zoroaster, Confucius, Moses and six other male ancient jurists on the neoclassical building’s roof in Manhattan is an eight-foot …

12-02-2023 TEHRAN: Tens of thousands of Iranians hit the streets in Tehran and other cities on Saturday to mark the 44th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, after months of anti-government protests. For the past two years, the 1979 overthrow of the Western-backed shah was commemorated mainly in vehicles and on …

12-02-2023 WASHINGTON: The FBI found an additional classified document at the property of former vice president Mike Pence on Friday, two weeks after the Republican acknowledged having a “small number” of government files at his home. Pence’s spokesman Devin O´Malley said in a statement to US media that agents had …

12-02-2023 TEHRAN: An Iranian-French academic has been released from jail in Teheran after spending more than three years in prison, France’s foreign ministry says. Fariba Adelkhah was given a five-year jail term in 2020 for conspiring against national security and one year for propaganda, which she denied. Her university, SciencesPo …