International

28-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India has unveiled four Air Force pilots who have been shortlisted to travel on the country’s maiden space flight scheduled for next year. The Gaganyaan mission aims to send three astronauts to an orbit of 400km and bring them back after three days. …

28-02-2024 CARACAS: Oil leaking from a capsized barge off the coast of Tobago has spread hundreds of miles to reach the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Officials on Bonaire, which is located 50 miles (80km) north of the Venezuelan coast, said the oil posed a “serious threat to both humans and …

28-02-2024 NEW YORK: A New York City medical school will offer students free tuition following a $1bn donation from the 93-year-old widow of a major Wall Street investor. The gift to Albert Einstein College of Medicine came from Dr Ruth Gottesman, a former professor at the Bronx school. It is …

28-02-2024 CAIRO/ JERUSALEM: Egypt has built more than 3km of wall in the past week in addition to further clearance of a large area next to its border with Gaza, media has found. It comes after Israel warned it is preparing for a ground offensive in Gaza’s southern city of …

28-02-2024 TASHKENT: An Uzbekistan court has sentenced 23 people to prison over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrup. The defendants were found guilty of tax evasion, sale of substandard or counterfeit medicines, abuse of office, negligence, forgery, and bribery. The sentences range from two to 20 …

28-02-2024 NEW YORK: Donald Trump is appealing against a New York judge’s ruling that he must pay $454m (£360m) in penalties and interest in a civil fraud case. This month’s judgement was $355m, but the amount has soared with interest, which will keep accruing by at least $112,000 per day. …

27-02-2024 RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced his resignation on Monday, as the Palestinian Authority looks to build support for an expanded role following Israel’s war against the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza. The move comes amid growing US pressure on President Mahmoud Abbas to shake up the Authority …

27-02-2024 GAZA CITY: In certain places at certain times, just staying alive is something for a boy to be proud of – let alone going out every day to find the food that keeps your family from starving. Every morning, Mohammed Zo’rab, 11, goes out into the southern Gaza city …

27-02-2024 WASHINGTON/ CANBERRA: Julian Assange “put lives at risk” by releasing classified US documents and should be extradited to face justice, a High Court hearing has been told. Lawyers for the US said Assange revealed the names of sources when he used Wikileaks to release unredacted files on the Afghanistan …

27-02-2024 OUAGANDOUGOU: Dozens of Catholic worshippers have been killed in a Burkina Faso village when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for mass at a church in the country’s conflict-hit northern region, church officials said. Sunday’s violence in the village of Essakane was a “terrorist attack” that left 12 …