Veteran cameraman among five UK citizens released by Taliban on June 20, 2022London: The Taliban has freed a veteran television cameraman and four other British nationals held in Afghanistan for six months, his friends and former colleagues said on Monday. Peter Jouvenal was one of a “number” of Britons that the government in London in February said were being held by the Taliban. On Monday, UK Foreign […]
Strong quake hits eastern Taiwan: USGS on June 20, 2022Taipei: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Monday in Taiwan’s east, 38 kilometers south of Hualien city, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake had an estimated depth of 10 kilometres, according to USGS, and struck at 09:05 local time (0105 GMT). A clip of a tranquil lakeside […]
Fate of Donbas rests in battleground Ukraine city: Zelensky on June 9, 2022Lysychansk, Ukraine: Ukrainian soldiers in Severodonetsk are fighting “one of the most difficult” battles against Russian troops since the start of the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, adding the fate of the whole Donbas region rests in the eastern city. Moscow’s forces are concentrating their firepower on the strategically important industrial hub as part of […]
Car ploughs into school trip teenagers killing teacher in Berlin on June 9, 2022Berlin: A German-Armenian man drove into a crowd in a busy shopping district in Berlin on Wednesday, mowing down a group of teenagers and killing their teacher before crashing through a shop window. The incident happened at around 10:30 am (0830 GMT) just across from Breitscheidplatz, where an Islamic State group sympathiser deliberately ploughed a […]
Record-setting Babar Azam’s century beats West Indies in first ODI on June 9, 2022Multan, Pakistan: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam became the first batter to knock three successive one-day international hundreds twice as he anchored a five-wicket win over the West Indies in Multan on Wednesday. Ranked number one batter in both limited overs formats, Azam cracked a brilliant 107-ball 103 with nine boundaries to help Pakistan overhaul a […]
WTO seeks fresh momentum at the big ministerial meet on June 8, 2022Geneva: The World Trade Organization holds its biggest gathering in four years from Sunday, looking to prove that it still has a role in turbocharging international commerce. Ministers from WTO member states are gathering in the global trade body’s home city of Geneva hoping to breathe new life into the crippled organisation, which has been […]
UN warns of the looming widespread food crisis on June 7, 2022UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Tuesday issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises across the globe, and called for urgent humanitarian action in 20 ‘hunger hotspots’ where acute hunger is expected to worsen. Two UN agencies — the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) said the food crisis […]
The fierce battle for key Ukraine city changing ‘every hour’ on June 7, 2022Kyiv, Ukraine: Street fighting raged Tuesday for control of Ukraine’s flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, with the situation changing “every hour”, an official said, as Kyiv warned its troops were outnumbered by Russian forces. Just days ago, Moscow seemed close to taking the strategic industrial hub in the east but Ukrainian forces have managed to hold […]
The death of three sisters spotlights India’s dowry violence on June 7, 2022Jaipur, India: Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into. Kalu, Kamlesh and Mamta Meena were victims of a dispute over dowries, the often hefty sums Indian parents pay to marry off their daughters. The sisters had wed brothers […]
UK PM Johnson survives Tory MPs’ no-confidence vote on June 7, 2022London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday survived a vote of no confidence from his own Conservative MPs but with his position weakened after a sizeable number refused to back him. The Brexit figurehead called the 211-148 split a “convincing result, a decisive result”. “As a government, we can move on and focus on […]