North Korea fires likely submarine-launched ballistic missile: South Korea military
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea’s military said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North. South Korean military said that North Korea fired what is believed to be an submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) into the sea […]
Bangladesh detains 450 Rohingya celebrating Eid on beach
COX’S BAZAR: Bangladesh police detained 450 Rohingya celebrating Eidul Fitr on a beach, officials said on Thursday, in a further sign of growing intolerance towards the refugees. Bangladesh bans the 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees from leaving camps surrounded by barbed wire in the southeast where they have been stuck for almost five years. Most […]
Sri Lanka opposition declares no confidence in government
Sri Lanka’s main opposition party on Tuesday issued a no-confidence declaration aiming at ousting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet and blaming them of failing in their constitutional duty to provide a decent living standard amid the island nation’s worst economic crisis in memory. A group from United People’s Force party, led by leader […]
Tensions rise as West puts its weight decisively behind Ukraine
PARIS: Less cautious about its military support and more explicit in its war aims, the West shifted gears in its support for Ukraine this week despite the risk of a direct conflict with Russia. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done […]
Nine killed by bomb blasts on minibuses in Mazar-i-Sharif
KABUL: Two bomb blasts aboard separate minibuses killed at least nine people on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, police said, a week after a deadly explosion rocked a Shia mosque in the northern city. The number of violent public attacks across Afghanistan has fallen since the Taliban returned to power last August, but the militant Islamic […]
Russia invokes spectre of World War III
KYIV: Russia has warned of the “real” threat of World War III breaking out, ahead of a Tuesday meeting between the United States and allies over sending further arms to war-torn Ukraine. Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour has triggered an outburst of support from Western nations that has seen weapons pour into the country to […]
Activists bar tanker from unloading Russian oil in Norway
OSLO: Norwegian police said they had arrested 20 Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion campaigners who on Monday blocked a tanker from delivering Russian oil to an Exxon Mobil terminal. In a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, activists had fastened their red rubber dinghy to the Ust Luga’s anchor chain, Greenpeace said, as they sought to […]
Blast at illegal refinery kills 110 in Nigeria
YENAGAO: An explosion killed 110 people at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria on Saturday. “There are so many people that died here. I’m pleading to the government to look into this,” Uche Woke, a commercial bike rider, said at the scene of the blast. The Nigerian Red Cross Society was on the scene […]
Talks with Ukraine have stalled, says Russian FM
MOSCOW: Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to put an end to Russia’s near two-month military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine have stalled, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “They (negotiations) have stalled now,” he said after talks with his Kazakh counterpart in Moscow, adding that Russia has still had not received an answer to a […]
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza after rocket attack
GAZA: Israel carried out air strikes in central Gaza before dawn on Thursday after a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory landed in Israel, Hamas officials and Israeli military sources said. Two training camps used by Hamas, the group that rules the blockaded enclave, were hit, and no casualties were reported, witnesses said. Israeli war […]
