Los Angeles counts its growing homeless population on February 26, 2022Los Angeles: Tents, makeshift shelters, and dilapidated campervans line the streets of Skid Row as Mike Murase and his team tally the exploding population of homeless people in Los Angeles. In the United States’ second biggest city, the unhoused huddle by small fires, trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the […]
Iran says can react quickly if US quits nuclear deal again on February 26, 2022Tehran: Iran can resume production of highly enriched uranium “at any moment” if the US again pulls out of a nuclear deal with major powers, its atomic energy chief said Friday. Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, was speaking as talks in Vienna on bringing Washington back into the 2015 agreement […]
China vows cooperation with North Korea under ‘new situation’: KCNA on February 26, 2022Seoul: China’s President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of cooperation between Beijing and Pyongyang in an unspecified “new situation”, North Korea’s state media reported Saturday. North Korea, officially known as the DPRK, carried out an unprecedented seven weapon tests in January — including its most powerful missile since 2017 — with negotiations with the United […]
US Republican party in the long shadow of Donald Trump at key conference on February 26, 2022Orlando: Donald Trump may have lost the last US election and been under investigation over the 2021 Capitol riot, but the former president’s dominance remains undented in the Republican party, where he is virtually unchallenged. The 75-year-old billionaire is due to speak on Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida […]
UN chief says Russian soldiers should ‘return to their barracks’ on February 26, 2022United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on soldiers in Russia’s war on Ukraine to “return to their barracks” Friday. “We must never give up. We must give peace another chance,” he told reporters after Moscow vetoed a UN resolution condemning its “aggression” in Ukraine.
Loud explosions heard in central Kyiv: AFP on February 25, 2022Kyiv: Two loud blasts were heard in the centre of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday, an AFP journalist said, a day after Russian troops launched an invasion of its Western-backed neighbour. Russian missiles and shelling rained down on Ukrainian cities on Thursday after President Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale ground invasion and air assault, forcing […]
Greece ferry fire death toll rises to two on February 24, 2022Athens: The death toll from a ferry fire off the coast of Greece rose to two on Wednesday as nine people remain missing and the search for survivors intensifies. A blaze ripped through the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia on Friday near the Greek island of Corfu after it left Greece’s Igoumenitsa port for the Italian city […]
Iran says nuclear talks at ‘critical’ stage on February 24, 2022Tehran: Negotiations to revise the Iran nuclear deal have entered a “critical” stage during which some key issues still need to be resolved, Tehran’s top diplomat said on Wednesday. The 2015 accord had offered Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear programme, but the US unilaterally withdrew in 2018 under then-president Donald […]
Lebanese turn to public libraries to check out of financial crunch on February 24, 2022Beirut: In many countries, public libraries are considered a dying relic amid the shift to digital, but in Lebanon, they are getting a new lease of life as its economy flatlines. Every Friday afternoon, Munira Khalifa takes her son Elia to a public library in Beirut for a weekly storytelling event — one of the […]
Prince Harry sues major British newspaper group on February 24, 2022Los Angeles: Britain’s Prince Harry has launched new legal action against one of the country’s biggest newspaper groups, a spokesperson said Wednesday. The complaint against Associated Newspapers, which publishes the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and MailOnline — follows his wife Meghan Markle’s recent victory in a separate, long-running case against the same group. A […]