International

WASHINGTON: US authorities said they captured on Monday a fugitive inmate and a female prison guard believed to have helped him escape, after an intense 10-day manhunt that riveted America. “Casey White is in custody,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff of Lauderdale county in Alabama, referring to the 38-year-old inmate that was half of the jailbreak couple believed to have …

TEHRAN: The daughter of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces prosecution over social media comments on the Revolutionary Guards and the Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him), the judiciary said on Tuesday. Faezeh Hashemi, 59, is “summoned by the prosecutor over these two affairs”, judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodayian told a news conference. Khodayian referred to “remarks by Faezeh Hashemi …

BEIJING: An unmanned Chinese cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Tuesday in the sixth of 11 missions needed to finish building China’s first space station by the end of the year. A Long March-7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-4 spacecraft blasted off at 1:56 a.m. Beijing time (1756 GMT Monday) from the Wenchang Space Launch Center …

DUBAI: Food delivery drivers in the United Arab Emirates went on strike on Tuesday to demand better pay, the second such incident this month in a country where industrial action is uncommon. Many workers for Talabat, part of Germany’s Delivery Hero, did not show up for their shifts, calling for a pay increase amid the global rise in fuel prices. …

LONDON: Bitcoin has scant experience with rising interest rates, posing perils for investors looking to capitalise on its dramatic drop. The cryptocurrency has tanked along with other risk assets such as tech stocks after the US Federal Reserve amped up rates last week, sending them on a trajectory that’s expected to pass thee percent early next year. Bitcoin was an …

GENEVA: China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift. China has imposed draconian measures, trapping most of Shanghai’s 25 million people at home for weeks as the country combats its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. The Shanghai …

UNITED NATIONS: The UN food security meeting that Pakistan has been invited to starts next week but it’s still not clear if Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will physically attend the meet. “He has both options, to be in New York for the meeting or address it virtually from Islamabad,” a diplomatic source told. A source at the Foreign Office in …

An Al Jazeera reporter was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Qatar-based news channel said. According to Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Aqleh was hit by a live bullet, while videos of the incident showed that Abu Aqleh was shot in the head. One Palestinian official said she had been “assassinated” by Israeli forces while reporting on …

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders on Tuesday to quell further unrest a day after the island was rocked by deadly violence and rioting. With thousands of security forces enforcing a curfew, the defence ministry said troops “have been ordered to shoot on sight anyone looting public property or causing harm to life”. On Monday, government supporters attacked with …

State Department Spokesperson Ned Price has said the United States will not let “lies get in the way” of its bilateral ties with Pakistan, a relationship he stressed it values. Price made these remarks during a press briefing on Tuesday while answering a question about former prime minister Imran Khan blaming the US for his ouster from office and running …