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18-02-2023 BEIJING/ MANILA: China has had an unusually busy and bizarre week. On Monday, as the saga over the alleged spy balloon dragged into its 11th day, a fresh spat erupted between Beijing and Manila. This one was over lasers. The Philippines accused China of using a “military grade” laser …

18-02-2023 WASHINGTON: Joe Biden, 80, remains healthy and “fit for duty”, the White House physician has said after the physical examination of the US president whose health has been in focus amid his expected run for a second term. “The president remains fit for duty and fully executes all of …

18-02-2023 DAMASCUS: In his first speech since the devastating earthquakes last week, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has thanked other Arab nations for aid and rescue efforts after years of broken relations. The giant quakes hit Turkey and Syria on February 6, killing nearly 44,000 people and injuring thousands more. “Amid …

18-02-2023 TAIPEI CITY: Taiwan says it has found the remnants of what appears to be a crashed Chinese weather balloon. Taiwan’s military said it had spotted an unidentified object drifting above Dongyin – a Taiwanese-controlled island off China’s coast – at 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday. It later …

18-02-2023 BOULDER, CO, USA: There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s. It is the southern hemisphere summer, when you’d expect less sea-ice, but this year is exceptional, according to the National Snow …

18-02-2023 COLOMBO: As far as many residents of Sri Lanka’s capital are concerned, the last thing their island nation needs in the midst of its worst-ever economic crisis is another beach, the island nation’s 1,340km coastline is blessed with some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Yet, Port …

18-02-2023 BEIJING: One of China’s most high-profile billionaire bankers has gone missing, his company has reported. Bao Fan, the chief executive of China Renaissance Holdings, had not been able to be reached in recent days, the firm said in a market update on Thursday. Bao is a leading deal broker …

17-02-2023 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: KARACHI: It’s the time now when entire world asks with Australia especially Immigration Authorities that when there is no existence of Taliban in most populated city of Pakistan known as Karachi as they claimed then who attacked Karachi Police Office (KPO)???……Taliban or the ‘White Australian …

17-02-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Air India’s record deal for 470 planes from Airbus and Boeing has happened at a time when the carrier plans to become “a world-class proposition”, in the words of N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata group, which owns the airline. These orders – beating …

17-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi described his official visit to China as positive and fruitful, noting that 20 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed by the officials of the two countries during the trip. Speaking at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Thursday upon his return from China, Raisi …