Category: Rest of World News
Syria: In Syria, Russian jets harass US drone craft for 2nd time in 24 hrs
WASHINGTON: Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to several US drone aircraft over Syria again Thursday, setting off flares and forcing the MQ-9 Reapers to…
China to ban food imports from Japan citing safety reasons
BEIJING: China will ban the import of food from about one-fifth of Japanese prefectures for safety reasons, Chinese customs said on Friday, citing Japan‘s move…
Last month was the planet’s hottest June on record by a huge margin
Brussels: This past June was the hottest June globally on record in terms of sea and air temperatures, according to a statement by the EU-backed…
Cyril Ramaphosa: SA anti-apartheid PIO stalwart Essop Pahad dies
Johannesburg: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday expressed his sadness over the passing away of veteran Indian-origin apartheid struggle stalwart and former minister in…
Indian nursing student in Australia buried alive by BF in ‘vengeance’, court hears
Melbourne: In a horrific act of vengeance, a 21-year-old Indian nursing student in Australia was abducted by her jilted ex-boyfriend from India, driven nearly 650…
Titanic: Titanic tour sub firm suspends expeditions after deadly implosion
OceanGate, the US-based company that managed the tourist submersible that imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, has suspended all exploration and…
Lukashenko: Wagner chief still in Russia, not Belarus: Lukashenko
MINSK: Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko said on Thursday that the mutinous chief of Russia’s Wagner group was still in Russia with thousands of fighters, but…
Vigilantes kill 264 suspected gang members in Haiti since April: UN
UNITED NATIONS: At least 264 suspected gang members in Haiti have been killed by vigilante groups since April, the UN representative in the violence-wracked country…
Titanic: OceanGate suspends operations after Titanic tourist sub implosion
OceanGate, the US-based company that managed the tourist submersible that imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, has suspended all exploration and…
Rise of the robots: UN tries to tackle ‘mind-blowing’ growth of AI
GENEVA: The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted Thursday at its AI summit, attended…