International

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 …

27-02-2024 KABUL: The Taliban has released Herbert Fritz, an 84-year-old Austrian far-right nationalist, who was arrested in Afghanistan last May. The Austrian government said in a statement on Sunday that Fritz arrived in Doha, Qatar earlier in the day after mediation by the Qatari government helped to secure his release. …

27-02-2024 DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Sunday barred the adoption of elephants from the wild, a move hailed by animal rights activists as a “landmark” order to help stop cruelty. Rights groups said the high court order suspending licences will stop the torture of captive Asian elephants in the name …

27-02-2024 WASHINGTON: A man set himself on fire on Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A US Air Force spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, confirmed on Sunday night that the man was an active-duty airman. Officers with the US Secret Service extinguished the fire …

27-02-2024 KYIV: Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian president said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military planning. Typically, Ukrainian officials do not make casualty figures public, and other estimates are much higher. It …

26-02-2024 RAFAH, GAZA CITY: Shehab, 19, stands looking uncertainly at the camera, as if unsure if it will hurt him or whether he wants to share his pain. “My name is Shehab Omar Abu al-Hanud,” he begins. “My mother died. Her name is Ghada Youssef Ahmed Abu al-Hanud.” He is …

26-02-2024 COLUMBIA, SC: Former President Donald Trump rolled to victory in the South Carolina Republican primary, easily defeating former Gov. Nikki Haley in her home state and moving ever close to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. The Associated Press and television networks called the race for Trump shortly after the …

26-02-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KARACHI: Pakistan’s equity market responded positively to a power-sharing agreement between two major political parties this week, as the uncertainty surrounding the formation of a new government dissipated, making the stocks close the weekend trading session with a five percent gain …

26-02-2024 LONDON: Western nations should be bolder about confiscating Russian assets which they froze after the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. Sunak, in an article in an early edition of the Sunday Times to mark two years since the start of the …

26-02-2024 SANA’A/ LONDON:  The United States and the United Kingdom have bombed more than a dozen Houthi sites in Yemen, officials said, as the rebel group stepped up its attacks on ships in the Red Sea in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza. In a joint statement on Saturday, the …