International

05-01-2024 ADDIS ABABA: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Tuesday it was open to an immediate, unconditional ceasefire through talks with the Sudanese army as it signed a declaration with the Taqadum civilian coalition and invited the army to do the same. A nine-month war in Sudan, which …

05-01-2024 BEIRUT/ CAIRO/ GAZA: Israeli forces kept up their assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and told civilians to leave a refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave after the war reached into Lebanon with the killing in Beirut of the Hamas deputy leader. Israel has neither …

05-01-2024 COPENHAGEN: Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in Western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the …

04-01-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a “harsh response” to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani’s assassination by the US. The attack in Kerman in southern Iran killed 84 people and wounded many more. The death toll was revised down …

04-01-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel Wednesday against waging war on Lebanon, a day after a strike blamed on Israel killed Hamas’s number two in the group’s southern Beirut suburbs stronghold. “If the enemy thinks of waging a war on Lebanon, we will fight without restraint, without rules, …

04-01-2024 NEW JERSEY: Authorities in Newark said that an imam of a mosque was shot and killed at South Orange Avenue who was taken to hospital in a critical condition. As the authorities arrived at the scene, Sharif was found lying in the parking, 10 feet from the mosque entrance. …

04-01-2024 COLORADO: The “cyber kidnapping” scam that extorted the Chinese family of a foreign exchange student studying in the US is part of a larger criminal trend that parents across the globe could fall victim to, experts warned. Student Kai Zhuang was reported missing by his high school last week …

04-01-2024 BEIJING: Chinese company BYD sold more electric vehicles than Elon Musk’s Tesla in the last three months of 2023 as the two battled for top spot in the sector. BYD said on Monday it had sold a record 526,000 battery-only vehicles in the final quarter of 2023. It marked …

04-01-2024 TOKYO: A Japan Airlines plane burst into flames after a collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. All 379 passengers and crew on board were evacuated, but five of the six crew on the coastguard plane died, police said. The captain was injured. …

04-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known to give interviews to the media. In late December he made an exception and spoke to the London-based Financial Times, which had first reported on how the United States government had thwarted an alleged plot …