PARIS/JERUSALEM: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned on Sunday of the risk of “long-lasting apartheid” in Israel in the event the Palestinians fail to obtain their own state. Le Drian is one of the first senior French officials to use the term “apartheid” in reference to Israel, which has angrily denied any policy of racial discrimination. The veteran politician …

Youngstown: At least three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting on Sunday outside a bar in Youngstown, Ohio, police said. Chief Carl Davis of the Youngstown police department said gunfire was reported shortly after 2am in the area of the Torch Club Bar & Grille in Youngstown. Davis said three people were dead of apparent gunshot …

LOS ANGELES: “F9” has the international box office sizzling. The latest installment in Universal’s testosterone-fueled franchise kicked off with a massive $162.4 million in eight markets, including China, South Korea and Hong Kong. Those ticket sales easily mark the best start for a Hollywood blockbuster since Covid-19 hit. It’s an encouraging start to summer movie season, particularly because revenues weren’t …

RIYADH: As the United States scales back its military presence across the Middle East to focus on great power competition with China and Russia, it risks giving those two countries a chance to fill the gap and expand their influence around the Gulf, the top US commander for the region said on Sunday. While traveling through the Middle East over …

YANGON: More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers’ Federation said. The suspensions have come days before the start of a new school year, which some teachers and parents are boycotting as part of the …

NEW DELHI: Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting Covid-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the infection could further complicate India’s fight against …

WASHINGTON: “English is not my first language,” writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language. In her video clips, she tells her 400,000 followers about the differences between her …

LAHORE: Pakistan’s urban population grew immensely by 76 per cent to 75.68 million in 2017 from 43m in 1998, according to the final results of the Population Census 2017. In other words, around 36.44pc of the country’s total population of 207.68m lived in cities in 2017 compared to 32.5pc out of 132.35m in 1998. According to the data, Balochistan is …

KARACHI: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has alleged that the PTI government has fudged figures, including those about population of Pakistan, to lie about its economic performance. PML-N leader and former federal finance minister Miftah Ismail and former governor of Sindh Mohammad Zubair said at a press conference that worldwide the top three indicators of any economy were its GDP …

QUETTA: Some unidentified people were booked by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday in the FIR registered in connection with the motorcycle bomb blast that took place in Chaman town the other day. Seven people, including activists of the JUI-Nazaryati, were killed and 14 others injured in the incident. Unknown attackers had parked the motorbike near the venue of …