Category: World News
Showdown with police, suicide threats: Why China’s Covid workers are protesting on streets
NEW DELHI: China’s Covid troubles are far from over.First, the strict zero-Covid policy denied its huge population the hybrid immunity that most of the world…
Israeli forces remove West Bank settler outpost, riling rightists in government
JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces on Friday evicted a small group of Jewish settlers from an outpost they erected hours earlier in the occupied West Bank,…
‘Stay tuned’: Indian-American Nikki Haley hints at presidential run
NEW DELHI: After Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard in 2020, it’s prominent Indian-American Republican leader Nikki Haley who is eyeing an ambitious presidential campaign in…
US: Indian-American arrested for defrauding community members in Ponzi scheme
NEW YORK: A 56-year-old Indian-American man has been arrested in North Carolina on charges of defrauding Indian community members in a Ponzi scheme asking them…
Rishi Sunak: UK police ‘looking into’ video of PM Rishi Sunak sans seatbelt | World News
LONDON: British police will be “looking into” a video in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can be seen riding in a car without a seatbelt…
Cyprus protests portrayal as safe haven for Russian money
NICOSIA: Cyprus has frozen about 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in Russian-linked deposits and assets in accordance with European Union sanctions over the war in…
Indian-American Harmeet Dhillon says she is being attacked by fellow Republicans because of her Sikh faith
WASHINGTON: Harmeet Dhillon, a prominent Indian-American attorney who is running for Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman, has alleged that she is facing bigoted attacks from…
Armenian museum reopens in Jerusalem’s Old City
JERUSALEM: A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem‘s Armenian Quarter…
US man found guilty of death of five-year-old Indian-origin girl
HOUSTON: A 35-year-old man has been found guilty in the 2021 killing of a five-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US state of Louisiana.A stray bullet…
Indian-origin student receives scholarship for research in advanced water treatment using membrane technology
NEW YORK: An Indian-American PhD student has received a fellowship from the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the US Bureau of Reclamation for undertaking…