10-10-2022 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitian officials requested foreign security assistance on Friday in a document signed by Prime Minister Ariel Henry warning of “the risk of a major humanitarian crisis.” The document authorized Henry to request international troops to help reign in growing lawlessness in the country. Henry requested “the immediate deployment …

10-10-2022 MEXICO CITY: At least 57 students were poisoned by an unidentified substance in a rural secondary school in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to local authorities. The mass poisoning on Friday was the third at Chiapas schools reported in local media over the past two weeks, spooking …

10-10-2022 TEHRAN: School-girls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted across Iran as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown. Anger flared after the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurd’s death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by …

10-10-2022 VIENNA: Austrians have started voting in a presidential election expected to return incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen, after a campaign in which he has cast himself as the stable option in uncertain times. Campaigning on a slogan of “clarity”, Van der Bellen is widely tipped to clinch a second …

09-10-2022 MADRID: A shocking video footage of an incident from Spain wherein a group of male university students are seen howling sexist insults at their female counterparts in the neighboring block have drawn massive outrage, with many government figures, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, condemning the behaviour. The video clip …

09-10-2022 BERLIN: An act of “sabotage” targeting communication infrastructure was to blame for a major disruption on the German railway network. Federal police are investigating the incident, Minister of the Interior and Community Nancy Faeser said on Saturday, adding the motive for it was unclear. The apparent attack brought train …

09-10-2022 TEHRAN: Highlighting his administration’s push for the termination of the sanctions on Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi said the Islamic Republic would never bow out of the negotiations on the sanctions removal talks and the revival of the JCPOA. Raisi visited Al-Zahra University in Tehran on Saturday to attend a …

09-10-2022 MOSCOW: A key bridge linking the Crimean peninsula with mainland Russia has been partially destroyed in a truck explosion, Russian media reported, putting at risk a key supply route for Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, called it “an act …

09-10-2022 MOGADISHU: Somalia’s government has declared a crackdown on media organizations that publish what it deems propaganda for the armed group al-Shabab, warning offenders will be punished. The armed forces, backed by local militias and international allies, have waged an aggressive campaign against the al-Qaeda-linked group. “I want to inform …

08-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s government says it has rescued about 130 Indians who were forced to work in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia after they were lured by agents who had offered well-paying job opportunities in the information technology sector that turned out to be fake. Arindam …