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Junta begins Suu Kyi’s trial on exhaustive chargesheet
NAYPYIDAW: The trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi got under way on Monday, more than four months…
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Pitfalls abound for Israel’s disparate ruling coalition
JERUSALEM: Israel’s new government, a fragile alliance spanning the political spectrum, is meant to endure until 2025 but it could…
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Pacific islanders were first to find Antarctica, says study
WELLINGTON: Polynesian seafarers likely reached Antarctica hundreds of years before the Western explorers usually credited with discovering the frozen continent,…
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G7 vows action on Covid vaccines, climate change
CARBIS BAY: G7 leaders on Sunday vowed to start delivering one billion doses of Covid vaccines and to step up…
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Erdogan offers to help US stabilise Afghanistan
ISTANBUL: Just a day before his first face-to-face meeting with US President Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has…
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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says Christchurch mosque attacks film ‘focuses on wrong subject’
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern criticised on Monday a planned movie about her response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque…
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Man with 39 wives, head of ‘world’s largest family’, dies in India
A 76-year-old man who had 39 wives and 94 children and was said to be the head of the world’s…
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Canada charges suspect with terrorism for truck attack on Muslim family
Canada is pressing terrorism charges against a man accused of mowing down a Muslim family with a pick-up truck, prosecutors…
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Attacker wounds 13 in Austin shooting
AUSTIN: Someone opened fire in a busy entertainment district in downtown Austin early on Saturday, wounding 13 people, including two…
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Johnson voices ‘serious concern’ over Delta variant in hint at delay to lockdown end
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday expressed “serious concern” about rising infections of the Delta variant of coronavirus,…
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