International

KARACHI: The commissioning ceremony of the first Pakistan Navy MILGEM class corvette PNS Babur was held at the Istanbul Naval Shipyard in Turkiye on Sunday. MILGEM class corvette are small warships. They are the most technologically advanced and state-of-the-art surface platforms being constructed for the Pakistan Navy.     The ships will be fitted with the latest command and control …

ISTANBUL: A second shipment of Ukrainian wheat reached Turkiye via the Black Sea on Sunday, according to maritime traffic monitoring sites, despite Russian threats to attack boats heading to or from its neighbour and enemy. The Palau-flagged bulk carrier Aroyat — laden with 17,600 tonnes of wheat — left the port city of Chornomorsk on Friday bound for Egypt. Ukraine …

El Paso (Texas): The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the US border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said on Saturday. “The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come …

Grammy-winning artist Usher will headline the halftime show at the 2024 Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada, the National Football League (NFL), Apple Music and label Roc Nation announced on Sunday. The 58th Super Bowl is scheduled to take place at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024. “It’s an honour of a lifetime to finally check a Super …

BEIJING: At least 16 people were killed in a coal mine fire on Sunday in southwest China’s Guizhou province, local officials said. The fire broke out at the Shanjiaoshu Coal Mine at around 8:10am, the Panzhou City government said in a notice posted to its website on Sunday night. “It was preliminarily determined that the conveyor belt caught fire, causing …

A Canadian Sikh group has called on its members to protest outside the Indian diplomatic missions of main Canadian cities on Monday, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the prospect of New Delhi’s involvement in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia. Trudeau said last week Canada was pursuing “credible allegations” that Indian government agents may be linked to …

KORNIDZOR: Nago­rno-Karabakh separatists were negotiating the end of their long struggle against Azerbaijani rule on Saturday, surrendering their weapons after a lightning government offensive. If the ceasefire holds, it will mark the end of a conflict between Caucasus rivals Armenia and Azer­baijan that has raged, off and on, through the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. An …

LOS ANGELES: A Nasa space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled towards Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. Weather forecasts were favourable and the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx was on course to release the …

HANGZHOU: From autonomous bug zappers to android pianists and driverless ice-cream trucks, machines rule the world — at least at China’s Asian Games. The Games after a one-year delay because of Covid with about 12,000 athletes and thousands of journalists, technical officials and spectators descending on Hangzhou. The city is the unofficial home of China’s tech industry and robots and …

LONDON: Hundreds of people waving European Union flags on Saturday rallied in central London calling for Britain to rejoin the bloc. The National Rejoin March (NRM) gathered near Hyde Park and was due to culminate in Parliament Square as supportive motorists beeped their horns. Protesters brandished placards reading “the road to rejoin the EU starts here”, and “rejoin, rejoice”. The …