International

27-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Pakistan has confirmed India’s invitation for foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting scheduled to take place in India in May. Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the spokesperson for Pakistan’s foreign ministry in a weekly briefing on Thursday said India has …

27-01-2023 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND: Heather Herbert is happier now than at any other point in her life. The 47-year-old Trans woman, who moved to Scotland’s northeast from her birthplace of Leicester, England, around a decade ago, transitioned in 2015. It was a decision she arrived at after “a lot of soul …

27-01-2023 SEOUL: North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over “respiratory illness”, a report said on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first citywide restrictions since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022. Residents of Pyongyang have been ordered to stay in their homes …

27-01-2023 BEIRUT: Family members of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port blast have tried to break into the Justice Palace in the Lebanese capital as they protested against the lack of progress in the investigation over the explosion. At least 218 people died on August 4, 2020, after hundreds …

27-01-2023 SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on Thursday with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as “Invasion Day”. In Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous …

27-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Israeli troops have martyred nine more Palestinians in one of the deadliest days in the occupied West Bank since Israeli raids intensified at the start of last year. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said 20 others were wounded with live ammunition in the raid on the …

26-01-2023 Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust”, saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview on Tuesday with …

26-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The song Naatu Naatu from the hit Telugu-language film RRR has won a best original song Oscar nomination. It’s the first Indian feature film to be nominated for anything other than best international film at the Academy Awards, which take place in March. The song …

26-01-2023 HOUSTON: A powerful storm system has taken aim at the Gulf Coast of the United States on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston, Texas, the country’s fourth most populous city. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado emergency for that area, warning that a …

26-01-2023 BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, according to media reports, after weeks of mounting pressure on Berlin to give Kyiv the heavier weapons it says Ukraine needs to drive back invading Russian forces. Berlin has also granted other countries, such …