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19-08-2022 RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian student sentenced to 34 years in prison for her social media activity had been reported to the country’s authorities using a crime-reporting app, highlighting the use of technology by Saudi authorities to clamp down on dissent. Salma al-Shehab, a 34-year-old mother of two children who …

18-08-2022 NEW YORK/ TEHRAN: The man who allegedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie has said that he admires Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who issued a call for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Hadi Matar, the suspected attacker, told the New York Post during a video interview that he respects the …

18-08-2022 SEOUL: Talks with North Korea should not be for political show but contribute to establishing peace, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday, just hours after the North test fired two cruise missiles into the sea. Speaking at a wide-ranging news conference to mark his first 100 days …

18-08-2022 LONDON: A British-Pakistani woman has been elected as a councillor in Salford for Higher Irlam and Peel Green. Mishal Saeed, who is a graduate of the University of Oxford, won by 1,317 votes on Labour Party’s ticket. Local elections are an important opportunity for residents to make their voices …

18-08-2022 BANGKOK: An Indian man has been arrested at Thailand’s main airport attempting to smuggle out a menagerie of live creatures including a white desert fox and a raccoon, officials said Wednesday. The Southeast Asian kingdom is a major transit hub for wildlife smugglers who often sell the animals to …

18-08-2022 ANKARA/ JERUSALEM: Turkey and Israel said on Wednesday they will re-appoint respective ambassadors more than four years after they were called back, marking another milestone after months of steady improvement in relations. The two regional powers had expelled ambassadors in 2018 over the killing of 60 Palestinians by Israeli …

18-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least ten people including a prominent cleric were killed and 27 others wounded when a mosque packed with people was blasted on Wednesday evening, sources disclosed. Children are also among the wounded, according to a hospital source. Taliban government spokesman …

17-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees will continue to remain in detention centres and eventually deported. Earlier on Wednesday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and …

17-08-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023. That overall population milestone “is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care …

17-08-2022 DAMASCUS/ ISTANBUL: Dozens of Syrian soldiers have been killed and injured in a Turkish air raid on military posts in the Aleppo countryside, Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying. Syrian armed forces responded to Tuesday’s attack and caused material and human losses in some …