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17-07-2022 RIYADH: The United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East and leave a vacuum to be filled by Russia, China or Iran, US President Joe Biden has told a summit in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah. He also told the summit that the US is …

16-07-2022 COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan parliament met on Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the current term after the president fled abroad and resigned following mass protests over the country’s economic collapse. Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena promised a swift and transparent political process …

16-07-2022 JEDDAH: The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed on the importance of stopping Iran from “acquiring a nuclear weapon”, during a visit by US President Joe Biden, a joint statement carried by the Saudi state news agency (SPA) said. The statement said Biden also affirmed the United States’ continued …

16-07-2022 PARIS/ MADRID: Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal, with officials issuing health warnings for a new heatwave in the coming days. Temperatures were expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Europe as …

16-07-2022 ISTANBUL: Vandals broke into a Jewish cemetery in Istanbul overnight and smashed dozens of gravestones, the local Jewish community said Friday. It said in a post on Twitter that gravestones were destroyed in the Haskoy cemetery, sharing pictures of the vandalism. “The matter has been conveyed to the relevant …

16-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The US House of Representatives, with a majority of voice votes, has passed an India-specific legislative amendment, proposed by Indian-American Congressman Ro Khana, giving an expemtion to New Delhi over its missile purchase from Moscow. According to a report published in Daily …

5-07-2022 RIYADH/ WASHIGTON: President Joe Biden will discuss energy supply, human rights, and security cooperation in Saudi Arabia on Friday on a trip designed to reset the US relationship with a country he once pledged to make a “pariah” on the world stage. Biden will hold meetings with Saudi Arabia’s …

15-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani students enrolled in two different universities in Kabul have reportedly been missing since the first day of Eid ul Adha in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Resource Development has approached the authorities in Kabul for the recovery …

15-07-2022 NUR SULTAN: In the Tuttybulak Cave on Mount Boraldai in Turkestan’s Baidibek District, Kazakhstan, traces of human life from nearly 48,000 years ago were found, reported AKI Press. “We were exploring the cave in Kazakhstan with experts from the University of Tübingen in Germany,” said Zhaken Taimaganbetov, a researcher …

15-07-2022 TEL AVIV/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid have reiterated their anti-Iran positions in a joint declaration committing to preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The two leaders signed the statement earlier after holding a one-on-one meeting on Thursday morning in West …