International

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 …

26-07-2022 LONDON: A Pakistani man, who allegedly murdered a student and dumped her body in a suitcase, has appeared before a UK Court. Muhammad Arslan is accused of killing Hina Bashir, who belonged to the same village in Pakistan. Hina, a 21-year-old student at Coventry University London, was found in …

26-07-2022 NEW YORK: Tesla boss and multi-billionaire Elon Musk rubbished rumours of him ending his friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, clapping back at rumours of an affair with Brin’s wife. “Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk wrote on Twitter. He also …

26-07-2022 DHAKA: Bangladesh has sought a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the Daily Star newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest country in South Asia to seek such support amid rising pressure on the economies of the region. Bangladesh has sought the funds for its balance of payment …