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02-10-2022 CARACAS: Venezuela freed seven Americans in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans on Saturday, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, is the largest trade …

02-10-2022 FLORIDA: Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida’s flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central North Carolina on Saturday then move into Virginia and New …

02-10-2022 JAKARTA: Indonesian police say at least 129 people have been killed and dozens injured after a stampede at a football match in the province of East Java. In a statement on Sunday, police said supporters of Arema FC stormed the pitch at the Kanjuruhan stadium in the eastern city …

01-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report TEHRAN/ ZAHEDAN/ QUETTA: An attack by armed separatists belong with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL also known as hostile Taliban) on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assailants in Friday’s attack …

01-10-2022 ADDIS ABABA/ OUAGADOUGOU: The African Union Chief Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned the “unconstitutional change of government” in Burkina Faso after the second coup in less than a year in which a group of junior army officers removed military ruler Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. “The chairperson calls upon the military …

01-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD UNITED NATIONS: The martyrdom toll from a suicide bombing at an education centre in the Afghan capital has risen to 44, according to the United Nations mission to the country, as women reportedly took to the streets to protest …

01-10-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties on Friday to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by his forces, escalating his seven-month war and taking it into an unpredictable new phase. “This is the will of millions of people,” he said in a speech before hundreds of dignitaries in …

01-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has abstained on a draft resolution tabled in the UN Security Council which condemned Russia’s “illegal referenda” and annexation of four Ukrainian territories and called for an immediate cessation of violence while underlining the need to find pathways for a return to the negotiating …

01-10-2022 STOCKHOLM: Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been awarded to men, women and organizations for work that has led to great advances for mankind, in line with the wishes of inventor Alfred Nobel. The winners of this year’s prizes will be announced daily from Monday, October 3 through October …

01-10-2022 OSLO: Norway has announced it will receive help from the United Kingdom, Germany and France to patrol the seas around its oil and gas platforms, following major leaks blamed on sabotage on the subsea gas pipelines from Russia to Europe. Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines …