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25-12-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: The United Nations has said Burkina Faso had no grounds for ordering senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country and that the doctrine of “persona non grata” could not be applied to her. Burkina Faso’s military government on Friday put out a statement instructing Manzi, an …

25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ KABUL/ DAMASCUS: Anti-Shia terror organizations, local and global networks, Asian, Arab, African, Israeli, Saudi, Pakistani and Australian chains directly and indirectly linked with different Taliban batches, al-Qaeda, Daesh, ISIS, Boko Haram, ISIL, JeI, LeJ, JeM, LeT and dozens others with or …

24-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives voted on Friday to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, scheduled to take effect at midnight in Washington DC (05:00 GMT on Saturday). The spending bill survived a Republican-led motion to adjourn, passing 225 to 201 …

24-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71 percent of New Delhi Television Ltd as the company’s founders have decided to sell most of their shares, four months after he launched a takeover of the news network. Adani already held 37 percent of NDTV after an …

24-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The congressional panel probing the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former US President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the …

24-12-2022 NEW YORK: A deep freeze enveloping most of the United States combined with a massive winter storm brewing in the Midwest to leave nearly two-thirds of the country under extreme weather alerts, confounding travel plans for millions of Americans. Heading into the Christmas holiday weekend, the looming storm was …

24-12-2022 PARIS: Scuffles have broken out after least three people were killed by a gunman in a central district of Paris, in what authorities say was likely a racially motivated attack targeting a Kurdish cultural centre. Angry residents took to the streets as police in riot gear cordoned off the …

24-12-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large. Amini’s family said she was beaten after being arrested by the morality police on Sept. …

24-12-2022 PYINGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korea’s foreign ministry denied a media report it supplied munitions to Russia, calling it “groundless”, and denounced the United States for providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Friday. Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun reported earlier that North Korea had shipped munitions, …

24-12-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration said on Thursday it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of the Islamic dress code, in a decision that was condemned globally. Female university students were turned away from campuses on Wednesday and …