06-05-2023 TOKYO: No threat of a tsunami is in sight as an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 shook Japan’s western prefecture Ishikawa Friday, authorities said on Friday amid reports of injuries and collapsed buildings. The quake had a depth of 12 kilometres. The earthquake struck 2:42pm on the northern tip of …

06-05-2023 TEHRAN: Stressing the need for Muslim unity and resistance as the sole way for countering the Zionist regime, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the Israeli regime is going to disappear in the not-too-distant future. The Iranian president held separate meetings with the leaders and commanders of the Palestinian resistance …

06-05-2023 KHARTOUM: BBC Arabic reporter Mohamed Osman has lived in Sudan for his entire life. When fighting broke out between rival military factions last month, he initially stayed to report on the conflict but in the end it became too dangerous. He reflects on the difficult decision to leave his …

06-05-2023 TEHRAN: Mahsa Amini’s name made headlines around the world when she died in custody last September, sparking waves of protests in Iran but not many people have heard of Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi. The two female journalists helped break the story of Amini’s death and have been detained …

06-05-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s air force has shot down one of its own drones which it says had lost control above central Kyiv. There were explosions for around 15 to 20 minutes on Thursday evening as air defence attempted to shoot it down in an area near the president’s office. Ukraine …

06-05-2023 WASHINGTON: CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft, met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards associated with the technology, which is catching the attention of governments and lawmakers worldwide. Generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, has …

06-05-2023 OTTAWA: China has accused Canada of “slander and defamation” after it said Beijing targeted a member of its parliament and his family. On Friday, China said the allegation that it attempted to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong over his anti-China stance was “nonsense”. Chong, 51, previously accused China of …

06-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: On the eve of King Charles’s coronation, Indigenous leaders from around the globe have called on the British monarch to apologize and make amends for what they call ‘genocide’. A joint letter published on Friday by 12 Indigenous advocacy groups in former British colonies …

06-05-2023 ANKARA: A fight broke out between the Russian representative and the Ukrainian representative at the 30th parliamentary summit of the Parliamentary Assembly for Economic Cooperation in the Black Sea Region. As confirmed by sources to the “TASS” agency, a member of the Ukrainian delegation taking part in the meeting …

06-05-2023 BELGRADE: At least eight people have been killed, and 14 are wounded after a gunman in a moving car opened fire on passersby in a town south of Belgrade, the second mass shooting in a week in Serbia, where such tragedies are rare. The drive-by attack late on Thursday …