International

26-05-2022 JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED AL-QUDS: An Israeli appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling questioning the legal basis of a longstanding ban on non-Muslim prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The special sensitivity of the Temple Mount cannot be overstated,” Judge Einat Avman-Moller said in her …

26-05-2022 UVALDE/ HOUSTON: Ten-year-old Auraleigha Santos focused on staying quiet on Tuesday morning as she hid near the auditorium at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, while in a classroom on the other side of the building, an 18-year-old man carrying an AR-15-style rifle kept shooting, and shooting and shooting. …

26-05-2022 DOLLOW: Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi’s twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day. Weakened by hunger, their mother gave birth to the twins a month early, eight weeks after their exhausted family walked into …

26-05-2022 SANA’A: A spy drone flown by Saudi Arabia near Yemen’s border with the kingdom was downed by Yemeni air defense forces. “At dawn today, our air defenses shot down an armed spy plane belonging to the Saudi air force,” Yemeni armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree tweeted on …

25-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: Clashes have been reported in Pakistan after authorities blocked roads leading to the capital, where a defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party is planning to hold a major rally to demand the removal of the government and immediate general …

25-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in the Indian capital New Delhi has sentenced iconic Kashmiri pro-independence leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment in “terror” funding case. Malik, one of Indian-administered Kashmir’s prominent rebel leaders, is the chief of now banned …

25-05-2022 HOUSTON: As many as 14 schoolchildren and one teacher have been killed in a shooting at a primary school in the US state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said, in the latest mass shooting in the United States. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Abbott said an 18-year-old gunman …

25-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Mahira* has become a familiar face on Afghan television, as viewers tune in every night to watch her present the news. Even during the most turbulent recent events, the 27-year-old journalist remained calm and composed as she reported on the …

25-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The devastating heatwave that has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a glimpse of the region’s future, says a study by international scientists. The World Weather Attribution group analysed historical weather data that suggested …

25-05-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ankara is planning to launch a new military operation in Syria in an effort to link up two areas already under Turkish control, raising fears of renewed fighting on the Turkey-Syria border. Speaking following a cabinet meeting on Monday, Erdogan …