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22-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry on Tuesday suspended access to universities by female students until further notice, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, Britain and the United Nations. A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry, instructed …

22-12-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s government has asked the country’s states to keep a sharp lookout for any new variants of the coronavirus and urged people to wear masks in crowded areas, citing an increase in COVID-19 cases in China and other parts of the globe. Health …

22-12-2022 LONDON: UK ambulance workers have gone on strike, widening a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. Healthcare leaders warned about straining a health system already in crisis as ambulance staff at the state-run National Health Service (NHS), including …

22-12-2022 TEHRAN/ RIYADH/ BAGHDAD: Saudi Arabia is open to more dialogue with Iran, according to comments made by the Iranian foreign minister after he met his Saudi counterpart in Jordan. In an Arabic tweet published on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said he spoke with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince …

22-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australia was again forced to confront what experts say is “deeply entrenched” racism this year after the alleged murder of a 15 year old Indigenous boy, Cassius Turvey, shocked the nation. Cassius of the Noongar Nation people of Western Australia was walking …

21-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Tuesday named three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s violent crackdown on women-led protests that have rocked the Islamic republic for more than three months. Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, Pakistani law …

21-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s foreign minister has said that the country has scaled up troop deployment along a disputed border with China to an unprecedented level. S Jaishankar added that India wouldn’t let China “unilaterally change” the status quo at the border. His comments came days after Indian …

21-12-2022 ABUJA: Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror. When she awoke in a military camp nearby, “I felt the happiest I ever had in …

21-12-2022 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lashed out at the “spiteful” US government which has given birth to the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group for its role in an October fatal shooting attack on a religious site in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz. A …

21-12-2022 BARLIN: A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. Furchner, one of …