08-10-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), or Pashtun Protection Movement, a prominent rights group, listing it as a “proscribed organization”. A notification issued by the federal government on Sunday said the PTM was “engaged in certain activities which are prejudicial to the peace and …
Read More »Legendary film track voted best noughties Bollywood song
08-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: A blockbuster film track has been voted the UK’s favourite noughties Bollywood tune. Media asked listeners to pick their Ultimate 00s Bollywood song from a shortlist of 50 tracks. The list was picked by a panel including station presenters Haroon Rashid, Nikita …
Read More »Rwanda starts vaccine trials against deadly Marburg virus
08-10-2024 KIGALI: Rwanda has said it will begin vaccine trials for the fatal Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 12 people in the country most of them health workers. The east African country has received 700 doses of the vaccine from the Sabin Vaccine Institute, a US-based non-profit …
Read More »‘Antisemitic incidents in US surge to record high’
08-10-2024 WASHINGTON: Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for Extremism (ADL). The group found more than 10,000 incidents from 7 October 2023 to 24 September of this …
Read More »Blast kills two Chinese near Pakistan’s Karachi airport
08-10-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI: Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan. A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands. The Chinese embassy …
Read More »New Zealand loses first naval ship to sea since WW2
08-10-2024 WELLINGTON: The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa. HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ship, came into trouble about one nautical mile from the island …
Read More »Hamas fires rockets into Israel as mourners mark Oct 7
08-10-2024 GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: A year on from Hamas’s 7 October attacks, Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah all launch assaults. Israel carried out air strikes on Lebanon, saying it hit Hezbollah targets, and Gaza, where it targeted Hamas. From Gaza, Hamas fired rockets at Israel, with two people wounded near Tel …
Read More »One year of Israel’s war on Gaza
07-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: It has been one year of what UN experts have called Israel’s genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. This has been a war of many firsts, breaking records in scale and brutality. Marking …
Read More »Heavy strikes shake Beirut as Israel expands Lebanon campaign
07-10-2024 BEIRUT: Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away. The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered …
Read More »Thousands of Hungarians protest against state media ‘propaganda’
07-10-2024 BUDAPEST: Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the headquarters of the country’s state television on Saturday, protesting against what they described as the government’s “propaganda machine” and calling for an independent public service media. The protestors, from the opposition TISZA party, say that the state broadcaster MTVA is running biased …
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