International

23-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON: Australia has announced plans to make it easier for hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders living in the country to become Australian citizens. From 1 July, they can apply for citizenship as long as they have lived in Australia for four years or …

23-04-2023 BERLIN: The editor of a German magazine that published an artificial intelligence-generated ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher has been sacked. The magazine’s publisher has apologized to the Formula 1 legend’s family. Schumacher, a seven-time world champion, suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not …

23-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Some foreign nationals have begun evacuating from Sudan as the bloody fighting that has engulfed the vast African nation enters its second week. The bloody onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The airport has been repeatedly targeted and many residents have …

23-04-2023 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of protesters have flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel to express their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system. Crowds of Israelis held banners with the words “Crime Minister” overlaid on Netanyahu’s …

23-04-2023 NAIROBI: Kenyan police have exhumed human remains from more than a dozen suspected graves in the east of the country amid an investigation into followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. Police began exhuming bodies on Friday, said …

22-04-2023 NEW YORK CITY: The Empire State Building in New York City (NYC) glowed in green in honor of Eid ul Fitr. The 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was illuminated in green hours after the announcement of Eid ul Fitr was made marking the conclusion of Ramadan, the ninth month of …

22-04-2023 KHARTOUM: The struggle for primacy in Sudan entered the second day of Eid as the temporary ceasefire broke after some time it was announced by the warring forces of Army Chief Abdel Fattah-Al-Burhan and his rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The conflict has claimed the …

22-04-2023 NEW YORK/ TOKYO: In a bid to create awareness among the masses about the importance of taking care of our planet, Earth Day is being observed on Saturday (today) across the globe including Pakistan. The United Nations calls the event ‘International Mother Earth Day’. Earth Day is usually celebrated …

22-04-2023 MANILA/ TOKYO: A wreck of a ship, the Montevideo Maru from World War II carrying more than 1,000 people has been found 4,000 meters deep into the sea that was destroyed off the Philipines by an American submarine, media reported Saturday. The ship carrying prisoners of war was hit …

22-04-2023 PARIS: More than 42 years after the deadly bombing of a Paris synagogue, a court in Paris has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian university professor of carrying out the attack. The judges decided that Hassan Diab, 69, was the young man who planted the motorcycle bomb in the Rue Copernic on …