International

13-11-2022 NEW YORK: Elon Musk has taken on Detroit’s automakers, short-sellers and securities regulators. Next week, the Tesla chief executive is set to square off in court against an unlikely foe, a thrash metal drummer who hopes to strip Musk of his $56 billion pay. The trial will pit the …

13-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: The United States is happy for India to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wants, including at prices above a G7-imposed price cap mechanism, if it steers clear of Western insurance, finance and maritime services bound by the cap, …

13-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ TEHRAN: Iran has pushed back against efforts spearheaded by Western countries to scrutinize at the United Nations its handling of weeks of protests across the country. Germany and Iceland said on Friday they submitted a request on behalf of 42 countries to hold a special session of …

13-11-2022 TIRANA: Police and protesters in Albania have scuffled in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama‘s office in Tirana after tens of thousands of people gathered there to protest against corruption and the country’s cost of living crisis. After demonstrating peacefully for about three hours, protesters broke through police cordons …

13-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The last co-conspirators jailed for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have walked out of prison, a day after the country’s Supreme Court ordered their release. Gandhi, 46, was killed by a woman suicide bomber at an election rally in the …

13-11-2022 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday postponed his trip to Pakistan. Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, in a brief statement issued in this regard, confirmed that the visit is being rescheduled. “The new dates …

12-11-2022 TEHRAN: Thousands of Iranians protested in the restive southeast on Friday to mark a Sept. 30 crackdown by security forces known as “Bloody Friday” as the country’s clerical ruler’s battled persistent nationwide unrest. Amnesty International said security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people in September after firing at …

12-11-2022 Bureau Report + BBC WASHINGTON: Donald Lu, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, has said that Washington recently pressed the Modi regime to restore local elections and political rights in all the regions across the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. “I want to …

12-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report VIRGINIA/ GEORGIA/ HOUSTON/ ISLAMABAD: This year’s midterm elections in the United States proved to be historic for the Muslim community in America with 82 Muslim candidates sweeping local, state, federal and even judicial seats in 25 states, a report from the Council on …

12-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ UNITED NATIONS: UN member states have urged India to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination as they raised New Delhi’s human rights record during a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UPR …