17-11-2021 BEIJING: China is battling its biggest COVID-19 outbreak caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant, with some areas restricting entry by people from a northeastern city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country in the past week. A total of 1,308 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed …

17-11-2021 CANBERRA/ DOHA: A group of Australian women who were strip-searched and examined at Doha airport are suing authorities in Qatar. The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found in a bin at Hamad Airport in October 2020. …

16-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: A contingent of some 3,000 Sikh pilgrims will arrive in Lahore via the Wagah border crossing to attend the celebrations for Baba Guru Nanak’s 552nd birth anniversary in Kartarpur. During their stay in Pakistan, the Sikh pilgrims would pay obeisance …

16-11-2021 KAMPALA: At least three people have been killed and 33 others injured in twin suicide bombings in Uganda’s capital Kampala, police said, the latest in a string of attacks over the past month. “So far 33 are injured and five are critically injured,” police spokesman Fred Enanga told a …

16-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NAYPYIDAW/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from a prison in Myanmar, three days after he was sentenced to 11 years behind bars for what Yangon said were breaches of immigration and “terrorism” laws, his employer and a former United States …

16-11-2021 LONDON/ LIVERPOOL: The United Kingdom has raised the national terror threat level after a blast near a hospital. Police were called on Sunday morning about reports of an explosion involving a taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Photos showed a vehicle in flames near the hospital’s main entrance. A man …

15-11-2021 KHARTOUM/ DOHA: Al Jazeera condemns the arrest of its Sudan bureau chief by security forces in the capital, Khartoum, and demands his immediate release. El Musalmi El Kabbashi was taken into custody after security forces raided his home overnight. No reason has been given for his detention. “Al Jazeera …

15-11-2021 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Tremors were felt in Abu Dhabi and Dubai after two earthquakes rocked Iran in the space of a minute on Sunday. The impact was also experienced in the Northern Emirates. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Iran at 4.07pm, followed by one measuring 6.7 a minute …

15-11-2021 DAMASCUS/ NEW YORK: The US military covered up an attack that killed dozens of civilians in Syria, according to an investigation by the New York Times newspaper. The 2019 attack on so-called Islamic State (IS) fighters killed 80 people, only 16 identified as militants. An independent investigation into the …

15-11-2021 GLASGOW/ BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China and India will have to explain themselves to climate-vulnerable nations, COP26 President Alok Sharma has said as the summit ends. It comes after the two nations pushed for the language on coal to change from “phase out” to “phase down” in the deal agreed …