Police in China said they have detained a 30-year-old Canadian man surnamed Wu on suspicion of committing rape, with state media identifying him as Chinese-born pop singer Kris Wu. Wu was being investigated over accusations made online of “tricking young girls into having sex with him”, according to a statement by police in the Chaoyang district of the Chinese capital …

UNITED NATIONS: Hun­g­er is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for catastrophic situations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two UN agencies warned on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme said in a new report on Hunger Hotspots between …

HERAT: Afghan troops and Taliban fighters clashed again on the outskirts of Herat on Saturday, a day after a police guard was killed when a United Nations compound in the western city came under attack. Violence has surged across the country since early May, when the militants launched a sweeping offensive as US-led foreign forces began a final withdrawal that …

KUALA LUMPUR: Hundreds of black-clad Malaysians staged an anti-government protest on Saturday in defiance of a ban on public gatherings under coronavirus curbs, piling pressure on the embattled prime minister to resign. The mostly young protesters, wearing masks and keeping a distance from one another, waved banners reading “failed government” as well as black flags. It was the first sizeable …

DUBAI: US Navy explosive experts believe a drone strike targeted an oil tanker that came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, killing two on board, the American military said on Saturday. The strike on Thursday night on the oil tanker Mercer Street marks the first-known fatal attack after years of assaults on commercial shipping in …

WASHINGTON: Millions of Americans could find themselves homeless starting on Sunday as a nationwide ban on evictions expires, against a backdrop of surging coronavirus cases and political fingerpointing. With billions in government funds meant to help renters still untapped, President Joe Biden this week urged Congress to extend the 11-month-old moratorium, after a recent Supreme Court ruling meant the White …

LONDON: Members of the Pakistani diaspora and rights activists in London gathered in Westminster on Saturday to hold a vigil for Noor Mukadam and other victims of femicide and gender-based violence in South Asia. Scores of participants gathered near 10 Downing Street, holding posters that read ‘Female Lives Matter’, ‘No Violence, No Silence’ and chanting ‘Azadi’. The event was organised by Progressive …

RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday said the government would not spare the culprit in Noor Mukadam murder case. Talking to mediapersons after the oath-taking ceremony of the Municipal Workers Union, the minister urged the media not to show such “mental” people as they needed fame. “When I was in jail, I saw such people who just wanted …

-9 A man died overnight after he was shot multiple times in southeast Dallas during an exchange of gunfire, police said. Around 12:17 a.m. Saturday, officers were notified of a shooting in the 7300 block of Elam Road near C.F. Hawn Freeway, police said. Police said the victim, whose name has not been released, got into a car and crashed …

A car owner fatally shot a man who stole the vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Uptown Dallas, police said Wednesday Police were called about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday to the 3200 block of North Fitzhugh Avenue, near Travis Street, where the shooting had been reported. Officers found a man dead in a parking lot outside a restaurant. Police identified him as 23-year-old …