Category: International

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Pacific coast of Guatemala late Friday, Al Arabiya News reported citing the country’s INSIVUMEH seismological agency. El Salvador, a neighbour of Guatemala, felt the same earthquake that struck the Escuintla area of Guatemala. No immediate reports of damages or casualties have been made yet. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 119 kilometres (73.9 miles) by the German Research Centre for Geosciences, which also reported a magnitude of 6.1.

Peter Navarro, who disobeyed a subpoena pertaining to the congressional inquiry into the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for contempt of Congress. In September, Navarro was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee looking into the attack, according to CNN. Prosecutors had requested that US District Judge Amit Mehta sentence Navarro to six months on each offence, running concurrently, and penalise him $200,000. Each count caries a statutory…

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Wednesday said that having achieved the first phase of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan was benefiting from its early harvest projects while remaining engaged with China to execute the next phase. “We have already achieved the CPEC’s first phase and we are benefiting from its early harvest projects. We are entering the second phase. We do need more deliberations when it comes to the second phase,” he said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN). He said CPEC’s second phase…

Turkey approved Sweden’s admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) on Tuesday, removing a significant obstacle to the previous nonaligned nation’s membership in the armed forces, CNBC reported. With four abstentions, the legislature approved Sweden’s accession protocol by a vote of 287 to 55. It is anticipated that the ratification will take effect soon after it is published in the official gazette. After this, Hungary is the only member of NATO that has not approved Sweden’s membership. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Tuesday that he sent a letter to his…

As the Republican primary in New Hampshire is scheduled for Tuesday, former US President Donald Trump believed that his opponent former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is not as mentally stable as him calling for a cognitive test in which he said she’s not gonna win.  Speaking with Fox News Monday, Donald Trump said that he would score higher than the 52-year-old Nikki Haley, who criticised his cognitive abilities claiming that the former president is not fit for another term. Haley had been calling for the evaluation of…

In a new episode of the Stanley Cup mania, a 23-year-old California woman was recently arrested for stealing 65 Stanley tumblers worth approximately $2,500, USA Today reported. The Roseville Police Department, in an update on social media, said that the officers received a shoplifting complaint from the staff of a retail store near Roseville, 20 miles northeast of Sacramento, on January 17. “Staff saw a woman take a shopping cart full of Stanley water bottles without paying for them,” police said. “The suspect refused to stop for staff and stuffed her car…

The United States military announced Sunday that the two Navy SEALS that were lost during an operation to capture Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Huthis over a week ago are dead, as the forces failed to trace their men after a rigorous search of 10 days.  Previously, the Central Command (CENTCOM) said that two SEALs were lost at sea were involved in the January 11 operation, in which the elite special operations personnel boarded a dhow off the coast of Somalia and seized missile components made in Iran. CENTCOM said…

WASHINGTON: During a fraud lawsuit deposition, former US President Donald Trump claimed he averted a “nuclear holocaust” and saved millions of lives. He repeated this on the stand, while also lashing out at the judge and AG. Months earlier, during questioning about his business practices, Trump stated he was “too busy… saving millions of lives” to focus on his businesses, entrusted to his children. This released deposition footage adds a dramatic layer to the ongoing legal battle against the former president. “I was very busy. I considered this the most…

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have asserted responsibility for an attack on a US ship in the Gulf of Aden early Friday.  The incident comes on the heels of the United States launching strikes against rebel targets due to their aggression towards vessels in and around the Red Sea. The Huthis, backed by Iran, insist that their naval forces successfully targeted the Chem Ranger, a commercial vessel sailing from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Kuwait. According to their statement on social media, they utilised “appropriate naval missiles” that resulted in direct hits. However,…