International

04-04-2023 TEHRAN/ RIYADH: The foreign ministers of regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia are expected to meet “in the coming days”, according to the Iranian foreign ministry. Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a telephone conversation with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisan bin Farhan on Sunday following the recent warming …

04-04-2023 NEW YORK: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have announced they will merge to create a $21.4bn sports entertainment giant. A new publicly traded company will house UFC and WWE brands, with Endeavor Group Holdings Inc (UFC’s owners) taking a 51 percent controlling interest in the …

04-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ NEW DELHI: A leading Canadian public policy thinks tank’s director has said there is no evidence that Pakistan is funding pro-Khalistan groups such as ‘Sikhs For Justice’ (SFJ), as the Sikh community living outside India generously supports groups standing up against New Delhi. Terry …

04-04-2023 DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers on Sunday announced further oil output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day, in a surprise move that analysts said would cause an immediate rise in prices and the United States called inadvisable. The pledges bring the total volume of …

04-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Former Manhattan district attorney (DA) Cyrus Vance Jr has said that former president Donald Trump’s statements criticizing the trial court and incumbent DA Alvin Bragg could potentially strengthen the case against him with another “charge of obstruction”, according to media. While speaking with ‘Meet The Press’, the former …

04-04-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s miracle baby, who was rescued from rubble in Hatay province amid the catastrophic earthquake which shook Turkey and Syria in February, finally met her mother last week, Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Services said. After being buried under the debris for 128 hours, baby Vetin Begdas …

03-04-2023 OTTAWA/ WASHINGTON: Authorities say they have recovered the bodies of eight migrants, including two children, who died trying to cross illegally from Canada into the US. A police helicopter spotted two more bodies in the St Lawrence River on Friday. Two families from Romania and India are among the …

03-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump joined the number of people expressing anger over her father Donald Trump’s indictment. Trump has become the history’s first ever US president incumbent or former to be charged with a criminal act. Though the indictment has not been made public, it would be known during the …

03-04-2023 EQUATOR/ CAPE PALMAS/ Pirates have abandoned a Danish-owned ship hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea last week but have taken some crew members with them while others have been brought to safety, the vessel’s owner says. The Liberian-flagged oil and chemicals tanker Monjasa Reformer was boarded on Saturday by …

03-04-2023 ARKANSAS: More than half a million homes and businesses were without power as of midday on Saturday after storms and tornadoes swept across the US South and Midwest leaving a trail of destruction. Ohio was one of the worst-hit states with about 200,000 people without power, according to PowerOutage.us. …