10-07-2022 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and raised concerns about Beijing’s alignment with Moscow. Both diplomats described their in-person talks on Saturday which lasted for five hours as “candid”, with their meeting taking …

10-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ PESHAWAR: Intense floods have killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains battered the country, officials said. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including women and children, were killed after being …

10-07-2022 TOKYO: Voters in Japan are casting their ballots in an upper house election overshadowed by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination. The election on Sunday could see the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) increase its majority. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister who remained a dominant presence in the LDP, …

09-07-2022 COLOMBO: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video …

09-07-2022 RIYADH: Eid ul Adha is being celebrated in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries today with religious fervour and zeal to commemorate the great sacrifice by Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) of his son Hazrat Ismail (AS). After offering Eid prayers, Hajj pilgrims and other Muslims sacrificed their animals to follow …

09-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of the bloody assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation. Japan’s longest serving modern leader was gunned down while …

09-07-2022 BEIJING/ TEHRAN: Beijing firmly rejected illegal, unilateral US sanctions on other sovereign countries, censuring the US blacklisting of an alleged network of companies brokering the sale of Iranian oil products and petrochemicals. Stating that it strongly opposes Washington’s “illegal” and “unjustifiable” sanctions as well as its so-called maximum pressure …

09-07-2022 MOSCOW: Ukraine has urged its allies to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of consequences for their reprisals over its invasion. Signaling that the Kremlin was in no mood for …

09-07-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party …

New Delhi’july 8,2022:As the situation in Amarnath yatra became critical after a cloudburst struck the area near the holy shrine leaving at least 13 dead, and 40 persons reported missing, the pilgrimage has been suspended till the situation returns to normal, officials said on Friday. “Situation is under control, rains …