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23-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ BEIJING: China and Australia held defence talks focused on regional security issues, officials said on Thursday, just days after Beijing condemned Canberra’s plan to deploy a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Australian defence officials hosted a team from the People’s Liberation Army for the discussions …

22-03-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Internet services remain restricted in parts of India’s northern Punjab state for a fourth day as thousands of police continue their search for Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh. Over 100 of his supporters have been arrested in the manhunt since Saturday. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann …

22-03-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ QUETTA: An earthquake of 6.8 magnitudes shook parts of Pakistan on Tuesday, killing dozens people including two women, and injuring over 260 others as well as causing many buildings to collapse, authorities said. Earthquake tremors were felt in Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, …

22-03-2023 NEW YORK: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to his partner Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain. Murdoch, 92, and Ms Smith, 66, met in September at an event at his vineyard in California. The businessman told the New York Post, one of his own publications: …

22-03-2023 WASHINGTON: Police in major US cities are preparing for potential unrest in case ex-President Donald Trump is arrested this week as part of a hush-money inquiry. Authorities in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles are ramping up their law enforcement presence. A Manhattan prosecutor may charge Trump over …

22-03-2023 JAKARTA: Parents whose children died or were injured by tainted cough syrup have wept with relief after an Indonesian court allowed a class action lawsuit. “My child’s struggle was not in vain,” said Nur Asiah, whose four-year-old daughter died last year. Her family and the relatives of 24 other …

22-03-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden exercised his veto power for the first time, as he overturned a Republican-initiated prohibition on pension funds considering progressive principles in their investment decisions. The measure would have nullified a Labour Department rule that allowed retirement fund managers to take environmental, social and governance …

22-03-2023 QUITO: Two TV stations in violence-plagued Ecuador were targeted with letter bombs, as officials and media reported. While one of the bombs exploded without causing any casualties, other media outlets also reported receiving suspect envelopes. A bomb sent to journalist Lenin Artieda exploded at his workplace in the port …

22-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The annual US report on human rights practices released on Monday listed “significant human rights issues” and abuses in India, including reported targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists, the US State Department said. The findings come nearly a year after Secretary …

22-03-2023 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised interview, his office said on Tuesday, after his government fended off two no-confidence votes in parliament over a controversial pension’s overhaul that has sparked mass protests. Macron’s government used a constitutional measure to adopt the reform, which pushes back the …