International

03-05-2022 KYIV: Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ran into delays on Monday and hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, the last stronghold of resistance to the Russian siege. It was not immediately clear what was causing the hold-up. A …

03-05-2022 LONDON: A 34-year-old man in England, Harry Matadeen, has claimed that drinking his own urine daily “cured” his depression and made him look 10 years younger, media reported. The publication cited New York Post as stating that Matadeen’s desperation to get rid of his mental health issues drove him …

03-05-2022 SEOUL: South Korea’s consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years in April on the back of surging food and energy prices, in the latest sign of high inflation taking off in Asia. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its consumer price index (CPI) rise 4.8 percent last …

02-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al Jazeera KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: People across Afghanistan celebrated Eid on Sunday, but for millions of Afghans, it was yet another day of struggle to bring food to the table. More than 90 percent of Afghans have been facing a shortage of food, …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives. Successive …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia will discuss the option of extending the terms of its $3bn deposit in Pakistan’s central bank to help Islamabad’s faltering economy, according to a joint statement. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has provided Pakistan with $4.2bn of support in the form …

02-05-2022 LONDON: A British legislator from the governing Conservative Party resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. Neil Parish, a Member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision on Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse …

01-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhunzada appeared for only the second time since taking control of the Taliban in 2016 to tell worshippers celebrating Eid al-Fitr that the Taliban had achieved freedom and security since seizing power last year. Flanked by security, …

01-05-2022 KYIV: The runway at the main airport in Ukraine’s Odesa has been destroyed in a Russian missile attack, officials said, as Ukrainian forces in the east of the country fought village by village to hold back Moscow’s advance. In a late-night video address on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …

01-05-2022 CALIFORNIA: Local police in the US state of California have decided to award Bilal Shahid, a young Pakistani (who belongs from Karachi) for saving a life of a 72-year-old elderly citizen. According to reports, the elderly citizen Billy Kiyabu, who is a resident of Livermore, fell on the sidewalk …