International

17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan Member Parliament (MP) and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said. Mursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power …

17-01-2023 LOS ANGELES: California has been hit by a final round of storms, bringing more rain and snow to a state already reeling from destructive flooding, heavy snowfall and at least 19 deaths. Storms have battered the state in recent weeks, flooding communities and forcing evacuations. The scale of the …

17-01-2023 BUCHAREST: Romanian police are expanding their investigation into former kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, seizing a fleet of luxury cars from his Bucharest compound over the weekend, and raiding seven more properties including a newly renovated villa beneath the Carpathian Mountains. The sight of Tate’s shiny dove-grey Porsche perched delicately …

17-01-2023 ROME/ SICILY: Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo. He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italian media reported …

17-01-2023 ATLANTA: Speaking at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church on Sunday, President Joe Biden said the US civil rights leader’s dream of racial equality and justice had not yet come true and renewed his call to fight for the soul of America. Biden spoke at the very church that King, …

17-01-2023 LONDON: A man in his 60s has been arrested in connection with an investigation linked to the discovery of traces of uranium found in a cargo package at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The man was arrested on suspicion of a terror offence on …

17-01-2023 NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES: The mayor of New York travelled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that “there is no room in New York” for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city. Eric Adams, a Democrat, was also critical of …

17-01-2023 KATHMANDU: Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the …

16-01-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ When Edison Davis and Augustine Nemus set out to fish from India’s southern coast on 27 November, they promised their families they would be home for Christmas. Then, there was no word from them for weeks. The two men were part of a …

16-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ BRISBANE: A British father used his drone to save beachgoers from a potential attack after spotting three sharks stalking the shores of a popular beach in Australia. David Alphonso, his wife Kirsty and their two-year-old sun Sonny were enjoying a family day out with …