International

29-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have sealed a private school after its teacher asked students to slap their Muslim classmate. Officials said Neha Public School was shut down as it “did not meet the education department’s criteria.” The school’s students would be …

29-08-2023 TRIPOLI: Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh Monday dismissed Najla Mangoush, the country’s foreign minister, to control the protests that erupted countrywide following her meeting with Israel’s foreign minister. Mangoush had said her meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Rome was unplanned and informal, but an Israeli …

29-08-2023 PARIS: French Education Minister Gabriel Attal said that the country is to stop women from wearing abayas in schools as they are violating the strict secular laws of the country, regarding the attire worn by some Muslims as a “religious gesture,” as the decision triggered mixed reactions from observers. …

29-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park in Bamiyan province citing concerns regarding practicing hijab within the park. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice Mohammad Khaled Hanafi said that the ban is based on claims that …

29-08-2023 ATHENS: Five people, including four children, died and dozens were rescued Monday in two separate incidents involving migrant boats heading to Greek islands from nearby Turkish shores, Greek authorities said. The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast …

28-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has been suspended by the sport’s world governing body for not holding elections after its chief was charged with sexual misconduct. India’s top wrestlers staged weeks of sit-in protests in New Delhi this year to demand the …

28-08-2023 DARWIN: A United States military aircraft crashed on a north Australian island on Sunday, killing three Marines and injuring 20 during a multination training exercise, officials said. Three had been confirmed dead on Melville Island and five of the 23 on board had been flown in serious conditions 80km …

28-08-2023 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 summit in India next month, the Kremlin has announced. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that travel is currently not on Putin’s agenda because he is concentrating on the special military operation, which is what the Kremlin calls …

28-08-2023 NIAMEY: The new military rulers in Niger ordered the armed forces to go on maximum alert citing an increased threat of attack. The main West African bloc ECOWAS has been trying to negotiate with the leaders of the July 26 coup, but has said it is ready to deploy …

28-08-2023 WEST BANK: It is easy to pick out the Israeli settlements illegal under international law – that are encroaching on more and more of the occupied West Bank. They stand in stark contrast to the arid villages of the occupied West Bank, where an excruciating lack of water means …