International

Eleven people were injured on Cathay Pacific’s (0293.HK) flight CX880 at Hong Kong’s international airport early on Saturday after the carrier aborted takeoff due to a technical issue, Cathay said in a statement. The flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles was carrying 17 crew and 293 passengers. It performed “an aborted takeoff in accordance with standard procedures after a technical issue …

OTTAWA: Facebook and Instagram users in Canada will be blocked from viewing Canadian news, parent-company Meta said on Thursday, after Ottawa passed a bill requiring digital giants to pay for such content. Google, another critic of the Online News Act, has previously said it is considering a similar move. The two Silicon Valley giants have pushed back against the bill, …

NEW YORK: For a year, Stockton Rush had tried to convince Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom to buy a couple of spots on his company’s submersible so Bloom and his son could experience the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of visiting the deep-sea wreck of the Titanic. Bloom was intrigued, he said in an interview on Friday. His son Sean, 20, had been fascinated …

WASHINGTON: India is the world’s largest democracy, yet it is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for the media, says a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post, published during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US capital this week. The ad, which highlights the problems journalists in India face, was jointly sponsored by the world’s leading media and …

PARIS: Multilateral development banks like the World Bank are expected to find $200 billion in extra firepower for low-income economies by taking on more risk, a move that may require wealthy nations to inject more cash, world leaders said on Friday. The leaders, gathered at a summit in Paris to thrash out funding for the climate transition and post-Covid debt …

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush what he called an armed mutiny after rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday he had taken control of a southern city as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership. The dramatic turn, with many details unclear, looked like the biggest domestic crisis Putin has faced since he ordered a full-scale …

The head of US intelligence said on Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government’s Wuhan research lab. In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said that they had no information backing recent claims that three scientists at the lab were some of the very first …

WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has denied that discrimination against minorities existed under his government, despite reports of rampant abuses. US President Joe Biden, said he had discussed human rights and other democratic values with the Indian PM during their talks in the White House. Asked at the press conference what steps he was willing to take to “improve …

LONDON: A Pakistani national was jailed for life on Friday, after a jury found him guilty of murdering a Pakistani woman and dumping her body in a suitcase on the highway. Muhammad Arslan, a 27-year-old student, was convicted last week of the murder of 21-year-old Hina Bashir after a three-week trial at the Old Bailey. In addition to the murder …

LAUSANNE: Olympic chief Thomas Bach on Thursday criticised the Ukrainian government for “sanctioning” its own athletes by not allowing them to compete in recent global competitions. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have faced sanctions from a multitude of sports since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. As Moscow’s assault on Ukraine stretches into a second year, the International Olympic …