Biden names former Covid aide as new White House chief of staff
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday named his former top Covid-19 aide Jeff Zients to White House chief of staff — one of the…
Protests sweep W Asia over Quran burning in Sweden, the Netherlands
Beirut: Protests were held on Friday in several predominantly Muslim countries to denounce the recent desecration of Quran by far-right activists in Sweden and the…
fintechs: Multiple fintechs impacted with RBI’s order against SBM India
Several Indian fintechs continue to be impacted by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) order earlier this week asking State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) India…
7 dead in shooting outside east Jerusalem synagogue
JERUSALEM: A gunman killed seven people at an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday, Israeli police said, in a dramatic escalation of violence that followed a…
North Korea slams US over decision to send tanks to Ukraine
SEOUL: North Korea condemned on Friday the decision by the United States to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight off Russia‘s invasion,…
‘Where was the humanity?’ asks mother of killed Memphis man
WASHINGTON: Memphis police beat Tyre Nichols so badly his head was swollen “like a watermelon” and his neck was broken, the mother of the 29-year-old…
On Holocaust Day, Polish PM accuses Putin of building ‘new camps’
OSWIECIM: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday used the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of building “new camps”…
Putin blasts ‘neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine on Holocaust Remembrance Day
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine — an allegation Moscow has used to justify…
Russia blocks CIA, FBI websites for ‘spreading false information’
MOSCOW: Russia‘s communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had blocked the websites of the CIA and FBI, accusing the two U.S. government agencies of…
UK under fire over retreat from Windrush scandal reforms
LONDON: Britain’s government came under withering criticism Friday after retreating from reforms it had promised to prevent a repeat of the “Windrush” scandal affecting black…