International

29-07-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned against playing with fire over Taiwan in a call with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, highlighting Beijing’s concerns about a possible visit to the Chinese-claimed Island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” …

28-07-2022 DAMASCUS: Dozens people have been killed and dozens wounded in the southern Syrian province of Sweida in clashes between armed residents and gangs aligned with the government security agencies, activists and local media said. Ten government loyalists from the “Falhout” faction and seven local fighters died in fighting on …

28-07-2022 SANA’A: August is around the corner, which in Yemen means that millions of students will be heading back to school but with the conflict in the country continuing and the education sector ailing, not all teachers and pupils are excited. Education in Yemen has been a casualty of the …

28-07-2022 SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent and for any military clash with the United States, state media reported on Thursday, amid signs the North could conduct its first nuclear test since 2017. Kim made the remarks during …

28-07-2022 BAGHDAD: More than nine months after Iraq held its October 2021 parliamentary elections, political leaders have been unable to form a government. The country’s political crisis reached a boiling point when demonstrators, mostly supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, one of the most powerful people in the country, stormed …

27-07-2022 COLOMBO: With no fuel and no money for food, HG Indrani and her family of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding a simple vegetarian meal. Rampant food inflation and chronic shortages of cooking gas and petrol are making daily life …

27-07-2022 CHICAGO: Top US cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show. Other cattle were buried in unlined graves, a feeding company said. Neither …

27-07-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KERALA: An Indian woman, who keeps a moustache, has grabbed the attention of a lot of people online, in both good and bad ways. However, she is not worried about the focus on her facial hair. Shyja, 35, who hails from the Kannur district in …

27-07-2022 RIYADH: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman left Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for Greece and France, state news agency SPA reported, his first visit to a member state of the European Union. Prince Mohammed, whose last official visit outside the Middle East had been to Japan in 2019 for a …

27-07-2022 MANILA: A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with strong tremors felt in many areas including in the capital Manila. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake which occured at a shallow depth …