International

24-12-2022 NEW YORK: A deep freeze enveloping most of the United States combined with a massive winter storm brewing in the Midwest to leave nearly two-thirds of the country under extreme weather alerts, confounding travel plans for millions of Americans. Heading into the Christmas holiday weekend, the looming storm was …

24-12-2022 PARIS: Scuffles have broken out after least three people were killed by a gunman in a central district of Paris, in what authorities say was likely a racially motivated attack targeting a Kurdish cultural centre. Angry residents took to the streets as police in riot gear cordoned off the …

24-12-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large. Amini’s family said she was beaten after being arrested by the morality police on Sept. …

24-12-2022 PYINGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korea’s foreign ministry denied a media report it supplied munitions to Russia, calling it “groundless”, and denounced the United States for providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Friday. Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun reported earlier that North Korea had shipped munitions, …

24-12-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in a decision that was condemned globally. Female university students were turned away from campuses on Wednesday and …

23-12-2022 BEIJING: Weeks after China gave up its zero-COVID strategy, the country is witnessing a new outbreak. Concerned citizens are rushing to the pharmacies to buy medicine, while crematoriums across China struggle to cope with the rising number of deaths. This week, Chinese authorities announced another change they would narrow …

23-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have arrested five women taking part in a protest in the Afghan capital, Kabul, against the ban on women attending universities. Three journalists were also arrested. Protests are also understood to have taken place in the Takhar province. Guards …

23-12-2022 AMMAN: The outbreak of protests and strikes in Jordan, and some cases of accompanying violence have shed light on the worsening economic situation in the country. Protests against a rise in fuel prices have waned in intensity, but have not yet died out, still occurring sporadically in Jordan’s southern …

23-12-2022 MELBOURNE: The alleged boss of Asia’s biggest crime syndicate and one of the world’s most wanted men has been extradited to Australia and arrested on drug trafficking charges, police said Thursday. Chinese-born Canadian Tse Chi Lop, 59, is suspected of being the leader of an Asian mega-cartel known as …

23-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, the country’s federal health minister has said, citing an increase in cases in neighboring China. Mansukh Mandaviya announced the new rule in parliament on Thursday, where he also urged state governments to …