BUENOS AIRES: Diego Maradona’s doctor was questioned by prosecutors on Monday in an investigation into claims that he and six other medical personnel had neglected the ailing football icon in his final days, precipitating his death. The appearance of Leopoldo Luque, 39, closes a two-week process of interrogation, with the seven having appeared one by one to defend themselves against …

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General António Guterres urged India on Monday to end the use of pellets against children in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and stop associating children with the security forces in any way. The UN chief made these observations in his latest report on “Children and Armed Conflict” presented in the UN Security Council on Monday for an open debate. …

Famed singer Shawn Mendes is sharing the unseen parts about his relationship with Camila Cabello that aren’t so rosy. While in conversation on the Man Enough podcast, the singer, 22, talked about his greatest fear that he realized amidst one of his fights with his girlfriend. “I raised my voice at her and she was like, ‘I don’t like it when you …

BAGHDAD: Iraq on Monday condemned overnight US air strikes against Iran-backed armed groups on the Syrian-Iraqi border that killed at least seven fighters and sparked calls for revenge from Iraqi armed factions. The second such raid on pro-Iran targets since US President Joe Biden took office, described by the Pentagon as “retaliatory”, led to fears of a new escalation between …

WASHINGTON: Presid­ent Donald Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr told him a month after the 2020 election that allegations of voter fraud were groundless, but Trump rejected that, the Atlantic magazine reported. Barr told reporter Jonathan Karl in interviews that as soon as Trump’s defeat by Democrat Joe Biden was clear after the November 3 vote, he ordered the Justice Department to conduct an …

MOSCOW: Work-from-home restrictions were re-imposed in Moscow on Monday as Russia tried to contain a deadly coronavirus wave fuelled by the Delta variant, while several Asian nations also tightened curbs to contain growing outbreaks. While many wealthy countries have brought down infections through rapid vaccinations, outbreaks are still raging from Bangladesh and Indonesia to South America — many fuelled by …

A Hindu hardline group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter’s country head after politically sensitive regions were depicted outside a map of India on its website, kickstarting an investigation in a fresh headache for the US tech firm. A map on Twitter’s careers page showed occupied Jammu and Kashmir region as well as the Buddhist enclave of Ladakh …

PARIS: A study measuring water concentration in Venus’s atmosphere concluded on Monday that life as we know it is not possible among the sulphuric acid droplets that make up the planet’s famously cloudy skies. The search for life on our nearest neighbour has so far proved fruitless, although a 2020 paper rekindled hopes for Venus when it claimed to have …

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is set to receive a shipment of the Moderna vaccine from the United States, it was announced here on Monday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration was shipping two million doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine to Peru. Besides, he said, 1.5m doses of the Moderna vaccine were being transported to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Turkey …

DUBAI: Iran said on Monday it has yet to decide whether to extend a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear watchdog which lapsed last week, amid Washington’s warning that Tehran’s failure to renew it would complicate talks to revive its 2015 nuclear accord. “No decision has been made yet, either negative or positive, about extending the monitoring deal with the …