09-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + BBC BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA: A “White” father and son convicted of killing a “Black” jogger have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbor, William Bryan, guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February …

09-01-2022 TEHRAN: Iran has said it is ready to hold bilateral talks with all the countries whose citizens were among the 176 victims when an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) air defence battery shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 on January 8, 2020. The Iranian foreign ministry said in …

08-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MURREE/ ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people froze to death after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of visitors thronged Pakistan’s hill town of Murree. The military was mobilized to clear roads and rescue people still trapped, Pakistan’s Interior …

08-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The coronavirus has affected millions of people in thousands of ways worldwide, but it has changed the life of an Indian man, named Kovid Kapoor, in an amusing way. Before 2020, “Kovid” was just another name but the coronavirus pandemic, of course, changed all of …

08-01-2022 NUR-SULTAN: Kazakhstan’s president has ordered security forces to “shoot to kill without warning” as unrest continues in the tightly controlled Central Asian state. In a televised address on Friday, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned demonstrators would be “destroyed” as part of a forceful “counterterrorist” operation. In almost a week of protests, …

08-01-2022 BANGKOK: A six-year-old boy was killed by his parents in Thailand after he defecated in his stepfather’s car, police in Thailand revealed Wednesday. The mother, Narinrat, has confessed to murdering her son Saifah Thanormwong after he had defecated in the car of his stepfather, Panya Chaichiang-em, the Bangkok Post …

08-01-2022 PARIS: Almost every country on Earth could experience extremely hot years every other year by 2030, according to new research Thursday highlighting the outsized contribution of emissions from the world’s major polluters. The modelling study combined data on historical emissions and pledges made before the COP26 climate summit for …

07-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 20-year-old man they suspect created an online app that shared pictures of Muslim women for a virtual “auction”, as an investigation into the case of communal harassment widened. An open source app on the Github platform …

07-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Hundreds of Victorians have been left waiting for ambulances and the delays are expected to continue as the emergency response system struggles with “extreme demand”. A “code red” for ambulance services in Greater Melbourne was triggered by “extreme demand” overnight, …

07-01-2022 BRUSSELS: A European Union (EU) ban on tattoo ink and permanent make-up containing chemicals feared to cause cancers or other health risks went into effect on Tuesday, officials said. The prohibition covers hazardous substances such as certain azo dyes, carcinogenic aromatic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals and methanol. …