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FAIDA: Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an “archaeological park” of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, including showing kings praying to the gods. The 13 stunning monumental rock-carved bas-reliefs were cut into the walls of an irrigation canal that stretches for some 10 kilometres at Faida, in northern Iraq. The panels, measuring five metres wide and …

ISTANBUL: Ankara den­ied involvement in an incident where Greece found 92 illegal migrants close to its northern border with Turkiye, Turkish Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli said late on Saturday. “As you couldn’t find one single case of a human rights violation by Turkiye, you just seek to expose the image of your own cruelty as if Turkiye did it,” …

COX’S BAZAR: A mob hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh on Saturday, as security worsens in camps housing almost a million refugees. Bangladesh has been housing Rohingya refugees in a vast sprawl of camps since they fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 that is now the subject of a genocide investigation at the UN’s top …

AMMAN: The Lebanese army said on Sunday that Israeli gunboats had violated Lebanese territorial waters several times on Saturday in an area opposite Ras Naqura, near the border between the two countries, an accusation Israel denied. The statement said there were four violations where gunboats entered several hundred metres inside Lebanese waters and that authorities were discussing the violations with …

TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday accused his US counterpart of “inciting chaos” after President Joe Biden expressed support for protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. “The remarks of the American president, who is inciting chaos, terror and the destruction of another country, serve as a reminder of the eternal words of the founder of …

PARIS: Three weeks into a refinery strike that has caused fuel shortages across the country, tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris on Sunday, adding to a growing picture of defiance and anger about inflation. The demonstration against the rising cost of living on was called by the left-wing political opposition and led by the head of the France …

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will act “methodically” in deciding how to respond to Saudi Arabia over oil output cuts, but options include changes to US security assistance, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday. Sullivan, speaking on CNN, said no changes to the US-Saudi relationship were imminent as Biden re-evaluates it. “And so the president isn’t going …

ISLAMABAD: Weather- and climate-related disasters have affected over 75 million Pakistanis in the past three decades, with estimated economic losses of over $29 billion, or roughly $1billion a year, latest World Bank report estimated. The projected temperature extremes will progressively amplify the negative impacts on human health, livelihoods, and ecosystems that Pakistan is already experiencing, said the report titled “From Swimming in …

TUNIS: Two rival Tunisian opposition groups staged one of the biggest days of protest so far against President Kais Saied on Saturday, denouncing his moves to consolidate political power as public anger grows over fuel and food shortages. Thousands of supporters from the Islamist Ennahda party and the Free Constitutional Party held parallel rallies in adjacent areas of the capital, …

KYIV/MOSCOW: At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a Russian military training ground on Saturday when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers who wished to fight in Ukraine, RIA news agency said. A “terrorist” attack by two citizens from former Soviet states opened fire during a training on a military site in the …