International

26-10-2021 LOS ANGELES: Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured — including a police officer — when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho. Police in Boise were called to the mall with reports “that at least one person was …

26-10-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: One of the world’s most criticized polluters, Australia, has promised it will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. PM Scott Morrison made the long-delayed pledge after bargaining with resistant MPs within his government. He said Australia had a plan to lower emissions, but it …

26-10-2021 KHARTOUM: At least seven people have been killed and 140 injured as thousands took to the streets in protest after Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government. Thousands of people joined rallies against the military takeover on the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of …

25-10-2021 NEW YORK: The so-called Facebook Papers, leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen, have already revealed the impact of Facebook as well as of WhatsApp and Instagram, both of which it owns, on the deep polarization of politics in the United States and on the mental health of some teenagers but …

25-10-2021 BOGOTA: Colombia’s most wanted drug trafficker and the leader of the country’s largest criminal gang has been captured. Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, air force and police on Saturday. The government had offered a $800,000 (£582,000) reward for …

25-10-2021 BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA: A 17-year-old man in India’s Odisha has been arrested by police after he sold off his young wife to a 55-year-old man to buy a cellular phone. According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the teenager, who got married in July this year, found a job …

25-10-2021 ROME: For some people, going to prison can feel like escaping to freedom. A man under house arrest in Italy showed up at a police barracks asking to be put behind bars because life with his wife at home was unbearable, police said Sunday. The 30-year-old Albanian citizen living …

25-10-2021 DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan smashed unbeaten half-centuries as Pakistan crushed India by 10 wickets on Sunday to register their first win over their arch-rivals in a Twenty20 World Cup. Chasing 152 for victory, Babar (68) and Rizwan (79) took apart the Indian bowling …

24-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI /KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Pakistani and Swedish ministers warned on Saturday. Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the Taliban drove out the Western-backed government in August triggering the abrupt end of …

24-10-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ CANBERRA: In a world racing to reduce pollution, Australia is a stark outlier. It is one of the dirtiest countries per head of population and a massive global supplier of fossil fuels. Unusually for a rich nation, it also still burns coal for most of its …