International

SYDNEY: Australia’s border police raided a home in the south of Sydney on Thursday, finding what local media described as “nuclear isotopes”. The home, in the suburb of Arncliffe, was the target of an early morning raid and remains cordoned off with tape warning of a toxic, nuclear or biological hazard inside. The small brown-brick apartment building was cut off …

HOUSTON: A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly making racially charged death threats against the Black federal judge presiding over former US president Donald Trump’s conspiracy case for trying to overturn the 2020 election, court documents showed. On August 5, Abigail Jo Shry left a phone message at the Washington offices of US Judge Tanya Chutkan that included …

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s police said they have seized S$1 billion ($734.32 million) in assets from a gang of foreigners laundering proceeds from organised crime, including plush bungalows in the most sought-after addresses, bundles of cash, luxury cars, jewellery, handbags and gold bars. In one of its biggest money-laundering cases, police said 400 officers fanned out across Singapore on Tuesday and launched …

OTTAWA: Thousands ordered to flee wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada’s far north crammed into a local airport on Thursday to board emergency evacuation flights, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway. The order late on Wednesday to evacuate Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories marked the latest chapter of a terrible summer …

LONDON: An unfair dismissal case filed by British Pakistani journalist Saima Mohsin against CNN will be heard by a tribunal in the UK, the journalist confirmed this week. She tweeted, “I won! I won the hearing against CNN Employment Trib­unal will hear my case on unfair dismissal #disability discrimination & #equalpay in London.”     Ms Mohsin, who now works for Sky News, was left differently-abled after an accident …

WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on a widely used abortion pill, but the ruling will remain on hold as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals would limit use of mifepristone to the first seven weeks of pregnancy, …

LONDON: Police in Surrey are hunting for three people who spent thousands of pounds on one-way air tickets to Pakistan, as they try to solve the case of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in a house after a “call for concern” on Aug 10. The body of Sara Sharif, daughter of Olga Sharif and 31-year-old Malik Urfan Sharif, …

KUALA LUMPUR: A light plane crashed into a four-lane road near Malaysia’s capital on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said. The plane exploded into a fireball on impact, with thick black smoke seen rising from the site, video clips from the scene showed. “For now, I can say at …

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to end the financial running of 25 Afghan hospitals by the end of August due to funding constraints, a spokesperson said, amid growing concerns over a plunge in aid to Afghanistan. “Although we continue to engage with government ministries, donors, and organisations to find alternative sustainable support mechanisms for the …

The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands to defend against Russian invaders as soon as pilot training is completed, a US official said on Thursday. Ukraine has actively sought the US-made F-16 fighter jets to help it counter Russian air superiority. Washington gave Denmark and the Netherlands official assurances that the …