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06-06-2022 Bureau Report MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: An international diplomatic storm has engulfed India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following the sanctioning of two party spokespersons over insulting remarks the pair are reported to have made towards Prophet Muhammad. BJP national spokeswoman Nupur Sharma …

06-06-2022 ABUJA/ LAGOS: Gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria and also detonated explosives. Dozens are feared dead including children. Lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said the attackers targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as people gathered on Sunday. Among the dead were …

06-06-2022 LONDON: The politicians of the UK’s governing Conservative Party will hold a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday that could remove him as Britain’s leader as well as the head of the Conservative Party. Party official Graham Brady said he had received enough letters from …

06-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that have rattled the United States. In Philadelphia, a confrontation between two men escalated into …

06-06-2022 LONDON: President Vladimir Putin warned the United States in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine for use in high-precision mobile rocket systems. The United States has ruled out sending its own or NATO forces to Ukraine …

05-06-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOL/ WASHINGTON: North Korea has test-fired eight short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, a day after South Korea and the United States wrapped up naval drills in the Philippine Sea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from the Sunan …

05-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Australia’s defence department says a Chinese fighter jet “dangerously” intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea region in May. In a statement on Sunday, the defence department said the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was …

05-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has no plans to curb food exports, for now, Piyush Goyal, the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution said on Friday, weeks after New Delhi banned private wheat exports. “As of now we do not see the need …

05-06-2022 DHAKA/ CHITTAGONG: A massive fire swept through an inland container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, killing and injuring hundreds, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident highlighting the country’s poor industrial safety track record. The fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40 km (25 …

04-06-2022 ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan is “jeopardizing Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy” as he rallies his supporters and workers to march to Islamabad and causes disruption, an article published in the Economist said Thursday. The publication said that “ritualized displays of street power, in which political parties …