Category: World

DHAKA: Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister said on Sunday. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family in a […]

WASHINGTON: Is “April 2020 the cruellest month,” asks a University of Louisiana guideline for Easter, which was celebrated across America on Sunday. The notice shows how the coronavirus pandemic had subdued Easter celebrations. At the White House, First Lady Melania postponed the annual Easter Egg Roll and an April state dinner for Spain’s king and […]

ROME: Italy on Sunday reported its lowest coronavirus death toll in more than three weeks, confirming trends showing the Covid-19 outbreak in Europe’s worst-hit nation had peaked. France also reported fewer deaths as compared to the previous day. The 431 new deaths reported by Italy’s civil protection service were the lowest since March 19. The […]

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for much of the past decade, according to a report on Sunday confirmed by the mother. The 48-year-old Austr­alian is the dad of two boys, aged two and one, with lawyer Stella Morris, to […]

JERUSALEM: Israel’s president on Sunday reje­cted parliament speaker Benny Gantz’s request for more time to form a government, a task that could now fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ex-military chief Gantz was given the mandate to form a government four weeks ago by President Reuven Rivlin following Israel’s March 2 election, the country’s third […]

WASHINGTON: Linda Tripp, whose secretly taped conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky provided evidence of an affair with President Bill Clinton that led to his impeachment, died on Wednesday. She was 70. Tripp’s death was confirmed by attorney Joseph Murtha, but he provided no details. She had been treated for breast cancer in […]

BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Barham Saleh nominated spy chief Mustafa Kadhemi on Thursday as the country’s third prime minister-designate this year, moments after his predecessor ended his bid to form a government. Kadhemi, the 53-year-old head of the National Intelligence Service, has ascended to the role as Iraq faces a budget crisis brought on by the […]

Another horror day of the coronavirus pandemic saw the global death toll pass 94,000, although there were tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the United States and Europe. The picture of the unfolding economic catastrophe also became clearer with the IMF warning of a Great Depression and data showing 17 million […]

Yemen reported its first case of the novel coronavirus on Friday as aid groups try to prepare for an outbreak in a country where war has shattered the health system and spread hunger and disease. The news came after a nationwide ceasefire began on Thursday over the virus pandemic. A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi […]

Christians are commemorating Jesus’ crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic. A small group of clerics are to hold a closed-door service in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, built on the site where Christians believe […]