17-07-2023 MOSCOW: A Moscow court has issued criminal charges against seven people in connection with a plot “motivated by national hatred” to kill two prominent Russian journalists, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency has reported. The court on Saturday ordered the detention of five minors born in 2005 and 2006, and …

17-07-2023 PARIS/ TOKYO/ NEW YORK: Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the rising threat from global warming. Italy faces weekend predictions of historic highs with the health …

17-07-2023 KHARTOUM: Sudanese army representatives have returned to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for talks with their paramilitary foes, according to news agencies citing government sources, as the war between rival generals entered its fourth month. “A delegation of the armed forces has returned to Jeddah to resume negotiations with Rapid …

17-07-2023 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in the streets of Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, promising “days of disruption”, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government advanced its plan to overhaul the judiciary. The rallies on Saturday marked the 28th straight week of demonstrations against Netanyahu’s …

16-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BRITISH COLUMBIA: A prominent Sikh leader was brazenly murdered last month outside a temple in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The death has outraged his supporters and intensified global tensions between Sikh separatists and the Indian government. On a mid-June summer evening in the …

16-07-2023 WASHINGTON: The United States is deploying additional fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a senior US defence official said, according to a news report. Speaking to Pentagon reporters on Friday, the official said the US will send F-16 fighter jets to …

16-07-2023 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis gave in to China’s unilateral appointment of a new bishop in Shanghai, formally recognizing Beijing’s installation of Bishop Shen Bin three months after the fact. A Vatican statement on Saturday said the pope had named Bishop Joseph Shen Bin to head the vacant Shanghai diocese …

16-07-2023 NEW YORK: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter, has revealed plans for his latest venture, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI, to collaborate with both companies in order to advance AI technologies. Musk aims to leverage the “silicon front” and “AI software front” of Tesla to …

16-07-2023 BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: As India and China search for ways to ease simmering military tensions along their vast border, top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the Indian foreign minister that bilateral ties between the two Asian countries need to be stabilized. Wang’s remarks came on the sidelines of Association …

16-07-2023 WASHINGTON: More than a third of Americans are under heat advisories as extreme temperatures are likely to hit several states in the United States this weekend, media reported yesterday. About 113 million people in the US have been affected by the advisories from Florida to Texas to California up …