LONDON: In just over a year, Iran has endured deadly flash floods, crop-ruining drought, punishing dust storms and heatwaves that have pushed temperatures as high as 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) – all crises likely fuelled by climate change. But for those hit by the impacts, finding help is proving very difficult. Iran is […]
MOSCOW: A gunman killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded 21 other people in a school in central Russia on Monday, authorities said. Russia’s investigative committee said the shooting took place in a school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometres (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. Those wounded were 14 […]
SAGAING (MYANMAR): Anti-coup fighters in Myanmar patrol the smouldering ruins of a burned village after what they say was a reprisal attack by junta troops struggling to crush resistance to last year’s military coup. Corrugated roofs, support beams and cooking utensils are all that remain amid the ash in the village in northwestern Sagaing — […]
MUMBAI: Starting early and upgrading academies are crucial to lifting the standard of Indian football, feels Lalengmawia Ralte, who has returned from a two-week training camp with Mumbai City FC‘s sister club in Belgium, Lommel SK. The prodigious midfielder, Apuia scored his first goal for the Islanders in the 2022 Durand Cup final against Bengaluru […]
After a long wait, Apple unveiled the 2nd-generation Apple AirPods Pro last month. The latest TWS earbuds from the company went on sale last week and now it has started receiving its first firmware update. The firmware update is now available for AirPods Pro 2nd-generation models. According to the official Apple support page, the update […]
LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s speech on Wednesday was a worrying escalation and the threats he made in it must be taken seriously, British foreign office minister Gillian Keegan told Sky News. “Clearly it’s something that we should take very seriously because, you know, we’re not in control – I’m not sure he’s in control […]
WASHINGTON: External affairs minister S Jaishankar has raised questions over the “merits” of the US-Pakistan relationship and said that Washington’s ties with Islamabad have not served the “American interest”. “It’s a relationship that has neither ended up serving Pakistan well nor serving the American interests,” Jaishankar said at an event organized by the Indian American […]
KYIV: After seven weary months of war, many Ukrainians fear more suffering and political repression awaits them as referendums orchestrated by the Kremlin with help from gun-toting police portend Russia’s imminent annexation of four occupied regions. Many residents fled the regions before the referendums got underway, scared about being forced to vote or potentially being […]
Sachin Pilot’s failed 2020 rebellion is coming back to haunt him with the opportunity to replace Ashok Gehlot as chief minister coming a cropper with a majority of party MLAs foiling that move. Back then Pilot couldn’t muster the numbers to bring Gehlot down and now doesn’t seem to have the support of enough MLAs […]
On Monday evening, a robotic Nasa spacecraft is programmed to ram itself into a distant asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour (25,500 kilometers per hour) in deep space to demonstrate the agency’s future ability to defend Earth from hazardous space rocks. It’s a fast action scene straight out of a sci-fi movie: The spacecraft, named […]
