News Archives for World - 2023-04-04

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South Asia

UN says Afghan women staff blocked from work by Taliban order

UNITED NATIONS: The Taliban have extended a ban on women working for NGOs to the United Nations' mission throughout...

Updated 05 Apr, 2023 12:13am

Europe

Russia says ready to return Ukraine children if parents request

MOSCOW: Russia's children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, wanted by the International Criminal Court for...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 11:16pm

World

Trump charged with hush-money scheme to boost 2016 election chances

NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a history-making moment on Tuesday to 34 felony counts...

Updated 05 Apr, 2023 04:40am

Europe

US details new $2.6bn military aid package for Ukraine

WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday unveiled details of $2.6 billion in new military aid for Ukraine in its war...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 09:36pm

Europe

Red Cross to cut 1,500 jobs over funding crunch

GENEVA: The Red Cross announced Tuesday that it would cut 1,500 jobs over the next 12 months in a drive to slash...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 09:33pm

South Asia

UN staff in eastern Afghan province stopped from reporting to work

KABUL: The United Nations’ Mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that female staff in the eastern province of...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 08:43pm

Asia

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Philippines: USGS

MANILA: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the ocean off the coast of the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, the US...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 07:32pm

Europe

First King Charles stamps go on sale in UK

LONDON: Britain’s Royal Mail began selling the first postage stamps featuring the image of King Charles III on...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 06:36pm

Stocks

Saudi bourse gains on higher oil prices

Saudi Arabia’s stock market ended higher on Tuesday on rising oil prices, while the Egyptian bourse eased after four...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 06:35pm

Middle East

At least 537 killed in Iran protest crackdown: rights group

PARIS: Iranian security forces have killed at least 537 people in a crackdown on protests that erupted in September,...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 06:32pm

Europe

Germany’s Scholz faces possible parliamentary tax fraud probe

BERLIN: German lawmakers said Tuesday that they would seek to open an investigation into Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 05:49pm

Energy

Iraq, Kurdish region sign accord to resume oil exports

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s federal government and the Kurdistan autonomous region signed an accord Tuesday to allow Kurdish oil...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 05:44pm

Europe

Finland becomes 31st NATO member as Russia rages

BRUSSELS: Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 05:39pm

South Asia

India avalanche kills six, injures 30 and traps many more

GUWAHATI: An avalanche in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim on Tuesday killed at least six people, injured 30 and...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 04:53pm

Europe

Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts

LONDON: Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices on Tuesday, following a...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 04:41pm

South Asia

Iranians mourn Guards killed in Israeli strikes on Syria

TEHRAN: Thousands of Iranians attended a funeral procession in Tehran on Tuesday for two Revolutionary Guards killed...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 02:20pm

World

Papua New Guinea quake toll rises to seven

PORT MORESBY: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea rose to seven on Tuesday, as emergency...

Updated 04 Apr, 2023 01:57pm

Europe

Ukraine destroys 14 out of 17 drones Russia launched overnight

Ukrainian defence forces destroyed 14 out of 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones Russia launched overnight, Ukraine’s...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 11:12am

South Asia

Huge fire engulfs market in Bangladeshi capital

DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that...

Updated 04 Apr, 2023 11:57am

Middle East

US says its forces killed Islamic State leader in Syria

The United States carried out a military operation that killed a senior Islamic State leader in Syria on Monday, the...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 11:03am

USA

Trump faces day in court in historic US first

NEW YORK: Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, will appear in court on...

Updated 04 Apr, 2023 01:16pm

Europe

Putin ally accuses Western leaders of blood on their hands for supporting Ukraine

Russia’s parliament speaker said on Tuesday that Western leaders have blood on their hands for supporting Ukraine’s...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 10:36am

Europe

One killed in train accident near The Hague, 30 injured

AMSTERDAM: At least one person was killed and 30 injured, many seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50...

Published 04 Apr, 2023 10:25am

World

China launches security probe into US chipmaker Micron

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have begun an investigation into leading US memory chipmaker Micron Technology, a...