28-04-2023 JERUSALEM: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s congratulatory message on Israel’s 75th year of independence has been met with a swift backlash in Palestine. The Palestinian Authority (PA) called von der Leyen’s message “inappropriate, false and discriminatory” in a statement on Wednesday. The PA said her remark about …
Read More »Ukrainian journalist shot dead in Russian sniper attack
28-04-2023 KYIV: A Ukrainian journalist was killed on Wednesday as he travelled to the city of Kherson with his Italian colleague. Bogdan Bitik, who was interpreting for La Repubblica reporter Corrado Zunino, was shot “most likely by Russian snipers”, the Italian newspaper reported. Zunino was shot in the shoulder and …
Read More »China to ‘deepen & expand’ military ties with Pakistan
28-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: China says it will work with Pakistan’s military to “further deepen and expand” the two nations’ mutual interests and jointly protect regional peace and stability. A statement by the Chinese defence ministry on Wednesday said Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central …
Read More »Erdogan falls ill on TV and cancels vote rallies
28-04-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suspended election campaigning after him fell ill during a live TV interview in which the broadcast was abruptly brought to a halt. After a 20-minute break, he returned to say he had “serious stomach flu” after two days of intense campaigning. Erdogan, …
Read More »Chinese Defence Minister in India amid border tensions
28-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has arrived in India to attend a key security summit meeting amid strained ties between the countries. Li will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defence ministers’ meeting on Friday in the Indian capital Delhi. This is the …
Read More »‘We’re running out of weapons’ on Ukraine front line
28-04-2023 MOSCOW: A year ago Volodymyr and his men were firing all 40 barrels of their BM-21 Grad rocket launcher in one go. Now they can only afford to fire a few at a time at Russian targets. “We haven’t got enough ammunition for our weapon,” he explains. His unit, …
Read More »America & South Korea agree key nuclear weapons deal
28-04-2023 WASHINGTON: The US and South Korea have secured a landmark deal to counter the North Korean nuclear threat. Washington has agreed to periodically deploy US nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea and involve Seoul in its nuclear planning operations. In return, South Korea has agreed to not develop its own …
Read More »India starts evacuating citizens from Sudan
27-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KHARTOUM/ NEW DELHI: India has begun evacuating some of its citizens who have been stranded in Sudan because of the ongoing conflict. A ship, INS Sumedha – carrying 278 passengers has departed Port of Sudan and is headed towards Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, …
Read More »Israeli Arabs torn over protest movement
27-04-2023 JERUSALEM: At a recent march for Land Day, Jameel Saed denounced the nationwide protests against controversial judicial reform plans that have convulsed Israel since the start of the year. “I didn’t participate in any and I’m not going to. I don’t think that many Palestinians did,” said the student …
Read More »Norway chastises Sweden after rocket goes awry
27-04-2023 OSLO: Sweden has got into hot water with Norway after one of its research rockets malfunctioned and landed in its neighbor’s territory. The rocket was launched at 07:20 local time (05:20 GMT) on Monday from the Esrange Space Center, before plunging into a Norwegian mountain range. The Swedish Space …
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