Magnitude 7 quake strikes off California
LOS ANGELES: A magnitude seven earthquake hit off the northern California coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large stretch of the California and Oregon coasts. Some 4.7 million residents of California and Oregon were under the tsunami warning, the National Weather Service said. But the tsunami warning was lifted an hour later. […]
Canada pulls refugee welcome mat, launches ads warning asylum claims hard
Once presenting itself as one of the world’s most welcoming countries to refugees and immigrants, Canada is launching a global online ad campaign cautioning asylum-seekers that making a claim is hard. The C$250,000 ($178,662) in advertisements will run through March in 11 languages, including Urdu, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hindi and Tamil, the immigration department told Reuters. […]
Deal to procure 26 Rafale-M jets to be inked soon: Navy chief
NEW DELHI: India is set to seal the proposed procurement of 26 naval variant of Rafale jets and three additional Scorpene submarines soon, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said on Monday. At a media briefing ahead of Navy Day, Admiral Tripathi also said that the government’s approval for two SSNs (nuclear-powered submarines) indicated its […]
Anti-Damascus fighters enter Aleppo after lightning assault
• Fierce fighting leaves over 250 dead in three days • Syrian and Russian jets carry out strikes in Idlib BEIRUT: Fighters battling the Syrian army and their Ankara-backed allies reached the country’s second city of Aleppo on Friday, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iran- and Russia-backed government. The fighting […]
G20 leaders talk climate, brace for Trump’s return
RIO DE JANEIRO: G20 leaders on Tuesday were holding the final day of a summit that offered some impetus to stalled UN climate talks, diverged on wars in Ukraine and the Middle East — and foresaw global turbulence as Donald Trump readies to take over the US presidency. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, […]
Biden, Xi agree to ‘no AI control over nuclear weapons’
• Xi says China ready to work with Trump administration for ‘smooth transition’ in bilateral ties • Counts Taiwan among four ‘red lines’ that must not be crossed LIMA: US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that human beings and not artificial intelligence should make decisions over the use of nuclear weapons, […]
Musk met Iran’s UN ambassador, NYT says
NEW YORK: Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US president-elect Donald Trump, met Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world’s richest person and Ambassador […]
UN nuclear chief in Iran in search of ‘diplomatic solutions’
TEHRAN: International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Wednesday for discussions on Tehran’s nuclear programme, a week after Donald Trump’s election as the new US president. Grossi, who is the director general of the UN agency, was greeted on Wednesday evening at the airport by Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the […]
11 die in air strike on teashop in Myanmar’s north
BANGKOK: Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for a local ethnic armed group said. ADVERTISEMENT The attack, shortly before 3pm, comes as the junta battles widespread armed opposition to its 2021 […]
US climate action won’t end with Trump, COP29 told
• Climate finance is not charity, UN official asserts • US envoy says fight is bigger than one election • Over 51,000 people expected at Nov 11-22 conference BAKU: As COP29 talks opened on Monday, Washington’s top climate envoy sought to reassure the participating countries that Donald Trump’s re-election would not end US efforts to […]