International

09-02-2023 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden challenged Republicans to lift the US debt ceiling and support tax policies that were friendlier to middle class Americans on Tuesday in a State of the Union speech that served as a blueprint for his 2024 re-election campaign. Assailing oil companies for making high profits …

09-02-2023 ISTANBUL: As he waited for a delayed flight out of Istanbul Airport this week, Samet Yilmaz held up his phone, pointing to a photo of rubble. He said his brother, Ismail, was buried beneath it. Samet lives in Bahrain, but has joined scores of people making the journey to …

09-02-2023 NEW YORK: A Pakistan-American officer of New York police, who was shot in the head Saturday while off duty has died, the city’s police commissioner said Tuesday night. The officer, Adeed Fayaz, 26, a five-year veteran of the New York Police Department (NYPD), had been hospitalized in Brooklyn for …

09-02-2023 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economy is expected to grow again from the end of this year and the government hopes to extricate the country from its economic crisis by 2026, President Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Wednesday. The Indian Ocean Island of 22 million people has been struggling with its …

09-02-2023 KAHRAMANMARAS/ ANTAKYA: Families in southern Turkey and Syria spent a second night in the freezing cold on Wednesday as overwhelmed rescuers raced to pull people from the rubble two days after a massive earthquake that killed more than 11,000 people. In Turkey, dozens of bodies, some covered in blankets …

08-02-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: A pregnancy photoshoot by an Indian transgender couple who paused their hormone therapy to have a baby is being widely shared on social media. Ziya Paval, 21, and her partner Zahad, 23, who live in the southern state of Kerala, were in the …

08-02-2023 PARIS: Plane maker Boeing plans to cut about 2,000 jobs in finance and human resources this year, as it focuses on engineering and manufacturing. The move comes as the company puts more of its resources into “products, services and technology development”. It will outsource some of the roles to …

08-02-2023 TEHRAN: The Iranian Air Force unveiled its first underground military base on Tuesday. Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and Iran’s Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi visited the subterranean air base, named Oghab-44 (Eagle-44). The tactical airbase can accommodate and prepare …

08-02-2023 QUITO: A candidate for mayor in Ecuador, who was murdered just hours before polls opened, has won the election in the city of Puerto Lopez. Omar Menéndez, 41, was shot dead by gunmen who burst into the room where he was with campaign workers on Saturday. A teenager was …

08-02-2023 OTTAWA: An immigration official in the Canadian province of Quebec has said it is “surprising” to learn that New York City is sending migrants to the country’s border. New York City mayor Eric Adams told Fox 5 that his administration was assisting migrants who had been sent to his …