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30-09-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s biggest carbon polluter announced Thursday it will exit coal-fired power a decade early, as renewable projects surge in a country long seen as a climate laggard. AGL said it would shutter one of Australia’s biggest carbon emitters, the Loy Yang, a Power Station in …

30-09-2022 FLORIDA: Hurricane Ian on Wednesday began lashing Florida’s Gulf Coast with powerful winds and drenching rain, prompting authorities to tell residents it was too late to evacuate as the eye of the storm inched toward shore with close to Category 5 power. Video images of the storm’s fury on …

30-09-2022 KYIV/ MOSCOW: A Russian missile attack targeted a humanitarian convoy in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, killing at least 23 people, according to a regional official. A Moscow-backed official in Ukraine blames Kyiv’s forces for the attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to formally annex four partially occupied Ukrainian regions. …

30-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber has attacked an educational institute in the Afghan capital, martyring and injuring dozens more Shia Muslims while the Taliban did nothing more than crud as per their decades-old routine and practice, world has also now become almost complete …

29-09-2022 TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday said that the death of a young woman in custody had “saddened” everyone in the Islamic Republic, but warned that “chaos” would not be accepted amid spreading violent protests over Mahsa Amini’s death. Amini’s death two weeks ago has sparked anti-government protests …

29-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Russia and the United States are battling Thursday for control of the UN’s telecoms agency, which behind the scenes governs everything from radio frequencies to satellites and 5G. The International Telecommunication Union elects its new secretary-general and the outcome will be a test of Russia’s …

29-09-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a woman’s lack of marital status could not deny her the choice to abort a pregnancy at any time up to 24 weeks, a decision hailed by women’s rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally …

29-09-2022 FLORIDA: Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the United States, has swept into southwest Florida, flooding streets and buildings, knocking out power to more than one million people, and threatening catastrophic damage further inland. The “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm made landfall shortly after …

29-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + AFP ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL: Pakistan’s foreign minister wants the world to engage with the Taliban, warning of dangerous consequences if Afghanistan’s rulers are again isolated. In an interview with AFP news agency on Tuesday during a visit to Washington, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari cautioned against creating …

29-09-2022 BAGHDAD: Supporters of Iraq’s influential Shia religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr have attempted to storm Baghdad’s Green Zone government area as the Iraqi parliament holds a session on the resignation of its speaker. Sadr supporters attempted to advance past security forces guarding the parliament on Wednesday, before being confronted by …