International

04-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The United States has responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, that the policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have brought Pakistan and China closer, The News reported citing international media. The US State …

04-02-2022 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting on Friday to shore up his authority after a senior aide resigned over his false claim that the leader of the opposition Labour Party failed to prosecute a notorious child sex abuser. Johnson, who in 2019 won the biggest Conservative majority …

04-02-2022 ATMEH/ DAMASCUS: “Nobody used to think about Daesh (ISIL) here,” he says, standing by the remains of a three-floored building that he and his father own in Atmeh, a town in Syria’s Idlib province just off the Turkish border. The structure was destroyed during an overnight United States Special …

04-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s official COVID-19 death toll crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level some data analysts said was breached last year but was obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease. The country, which has the fourth-highest tally …

04-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KARACHI: Hundreds of women especially Shia, moderate Sunni and anti-Taliban teenage girls and young females have either been kidnapped or murdered in Afghanistan by anti-Shia terrorists since August 2021 but neither the local Afghan media could publish or on-air a single report …

04-02-2022 HOUSTON: A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central US as airlines cancelled thousands of flights, officials urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses. The blast of frigid weather, which arrived …

04-02-2022 WELLINGTON: New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its borders, as the country starts to ease some of the world’s toughest COVID restrictions. Vaccinated citizens in Australia can go home from 27 February without needing to undergo state mandatory hotel quarantine. Jabbed citizens elsewhere will be allowed in …

03-02-2022 DAMASCUS/ WASHINGTON: President Biden said on Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Islamic State (IS) and Daesh died during a raid by U.S. Special Operations commandos in a risky pre-dawn attack in northwest Syria. Rescue workers said women and …

03-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report QUETTA/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Gunmen have martyred at least five soldiers and two civilians in attacks on two security posts in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan within hours of each other while as many as 11 terrorists were killed, officials say, with a clearance …

03-02-2022 BUENOS AIRES: Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 20 people and left 74 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, the authorities say. Investigators believe the illegal drug was either laced with some kind of poison or “cut” with another substance. The regional security minister called on …