06-06-2023 JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: A three-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Haitham al-Tamimi, who was shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week, succumbed to his wounds on Monday, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. Despite extensive efforts by the medical team at Sheba Hospital, where he had …
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06-06-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Kathleen Folbigg, previously labelled “Australia’s worst female serial killer,” has been granted a pardon following the emergence of new evidence that raises doubts about her alleged involvement in the deaths of her four infant children. After a jury convicted Folbigg of killing her sons Caleb …
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05-06-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: A prominent human rights organization has issued an urgent plea for global action to protect Pakistan from extreme heatwaves, saying the South Asian country is at the “frontline of the climate crisis”. In a report to mark World Environment Day on …
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05-06-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ODISHA: A private goods train Monday derailed in India’s Odisha three days after a three-train collision, the deadliest in the nuclear-armed country in two decades killed 275 and injured over 1,000. Today’s accident took place in Odisha’s Bargarh, while the previous collision occurred …
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05-06-2023 MOSCOW: On Monday, Russia announced that its forces successfully thwarted a major offensive launched by Ukraine at multiple locations along the front in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The clash resulted in the deaths of hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops, according to Russian authorities. It remains uncertain whether this reported attack …
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05-06-2023 BEIJING: China’s Defense Minister, Li Shangfu, in a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, accused the United States and its allies of attempting to destabilize the Indo-Pacific region. These remarks came only hours after warships from both countries narrowly avoided a collision at sea. Li alleged …
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05-06-2023 WARSAW, POLAND: Thousands of people came out on the streets to protest against their government in the capital Warsaw Sunday which the Poles believe is on the path to autocratic rule, eroding the democratic norms of the country. The Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski was leading the march underlined …
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Bureau Report + Agencies 04-06-2023 NEW DELHI/ BAHANGA: Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger …
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04-06-2023 MICHIGAN: A deadly wildfire in Northern Michigan burned at least 3,600 acres, triggering evacuation by the authorities and forcing a highway closure nearby as the blaze threatens multiple buildings in the west and southwest, officials said Saturday. The fire is centered in Grayling Township about 50 miles from Traverse …
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04-06-2023 By SJA Jafri + News Desk/ Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The local, national and international hackers, terror groups, organizations even state agencies have been hacking, blocking and disturbing the Press Media of India (PMI), the telephone and mobile numbers of its reporters and staffers as well as threatening, …
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