International

Sporadic fighting between Sudan’s warring factions could be heard in the capital Khartoum on Sunday, residents said, after a Saudi and US-brokered deal for a week-long ceasefire raised hopes of some let-up in the five-week conflict. The ceasefire deal, signed by the army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah, is due to …

SAN SALVADOR: Twelve people were killed and hundreds injured on Saturday in a stampede at an El Salvador soccer stadium, police and emergency services said. Authorities said initial reports pointed to a crush of fans who tried to enter Cuscatlan Stadium in the Central American country’s capital San Salvador to watch a local tournament match between teams Alianza and FAS. …

ROME: Climate activists in Italy turned Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain black on Sunday, saying floods that have killed 14 people in the country’s northeast were ‘a warning’. Activists from the anti-climate change organisation Last Generation climbed into the landmark fountain and poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into it, before being pulled out and escorted away by police. The Trevi Fountain’s …

HIROSHIMA: Just a day after China expressed strong dissatisfaction over G7 ‘insistence on manipulating China-related issues’, US President Joe Biden on Sunday said the Group of Seven nations agreed a united approach to China that called for diversifying supply chains to reduce dependence on one country, and hinted that he could speak with China’s president soon. “We’re not looking to …

HIROSHIMA: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that it was time to reform both the Security Council and Bretton Woods to align with the “realities of today’s world”. Speaking at a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan, where the Group of Seven summit meeting had been held, Guterres said both institutions reflected the power relations of 1945 and needed …

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of PTI supporters gathered outside the White House on Sunday as former prime minister Imran Khan warned that elections might not be held in October either. In an interview to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Mr Khan complained that “there’s no rule of law” in Pakistan, saying that over 10,000 PTI workers had been arrested. Arriving in two buses from Virginia, PTI workers …

ISLAMABAD: A member of the British parliament, Mirza Khalid Mehmood, on Sunday accused the West, including the United Kingdom, of hypocrisy on human rights and civil liberties. “Those who deliver lectures on human rights and civil liberties behave differently when it comes to Kashmir,” he said at a press conference with Azad Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry here. He …

SEOUL: South Korea and Germany will soon sign an agreement aimed at protecting military secrets to boost defence cooperation, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday as he met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Seoul. The military information agreement will help “smoothly operate the defence industry supply chain”, amid global economic and political instability, Yoon told a briefing. …

Papua New Guinea (PNG) signed a defence pact with the United States on Monday, giving US forces access to its airfields and ports as Washington vies with China’s expanding footprint in the Pacific region. Washington has growing concerns about China’s rise in the Pacific, where it is trying to woo nations with an array of diplomatic and financial incentives in …

A G20 tourism meeting began on Monday under tight security in occupied Kashmir as New Delhi seeks to project an image of normalcy in a region wracked for decades by violence. Both China and Pakistan have condemned holding the event in the occupied valley. India wants to show that what officials call “normalcy and peace” are returning to the region after New Dehli revoked its …