International

WASHINGTON: Private security contractor and ally of former US President Trump Erik Prince violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media on Friday. The confidential report to the Security Council, obtained by the New York Times and the Washington Post, said that Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries and weapons to …

WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday deported a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany, the Justice Department said. The deportation of Friedrich Karl Berger, who had been living in Tennessee, was “possibly the last” such US expulsion of a former Nazi, given the dwindling number of war survivors, one US official said. Berger, who had retained German citizenship, …

Tens of thousands of opponents of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup gathered on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day when security forces opened fire on protesters, killing two. Early on Sunday, police arrested a famous actor wanted for supporting opposition to the coup, his wife said, while Facebook deleted …

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday said that India was attempting to mislead the world over the situation in occupied Kashmir through ‘guided tours’. FO Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, while responding to media queries about the visit of Delhi-based foreign diplomats to occupied Kashmir, said: “Such guided tours to the occupied territory and meetings with hand-picked people are designed to …

WASHINGTON: Dr Agha Saeed, a Pakistani-American scholar, an author and an expert on Kashmir and Palestine, passed away on Friday in Monterey, California, his family announced. Dr Saeed, 73, was born in Quetta, and was a graduate of the Punjab University. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was also an exchange scholar …

BEIRUT: A wave of air strikes by government ally Russia killed at least 21 Islamic State group jihadists in the Syrian desert over the past 24 hours, a monitor said on Saturday. The 21 were killed in at least 130 air strikes “carried out over the past 24 hours by the Russian air force targeting the militant Islamic State group” …

YANGON: Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second largest city as security forces fired live rounds on protestors, emergency workers and doctors said on Saturday — the latest show of force from a junta regime that has faced two straight weeks of anti-coup demonstrations. Much of the country has been in uproar since the military deposed civilian leader Aung San …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-Turkey counter-terrorism drills codenamed Ataturk-XI 2021 concluded on Saturday. The three-week-long exercises held at Tarbela were participated by special forces of Pakistan and Turkey. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the drills included cordon and search techniques, built-up area clearance with combat aviation support and hostage rescue. The participating troops also practised free fall …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the political leadership of France not to entrench the discriminatory attitudes against Muslim into laws and warned that such steps would lead to serious repercussions in the shape of hatred and conflict. “You [France] need to bring people together and not to stamp a religion in a certain manner to create disharmony …

MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labelled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin. Russia has already approved two COVID-19 vaccines, including the Sputnik V shot, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, following a similar approach …