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16-04-2022 MEXICO CITY: An elderly couple died in their home as they tried to evacuate a wildfire in Ruidoso, New Mexico, that has destroyed hundreds of houses and forced thousands to flee the mountain town, local officials said. The remains of the couple were found on Thursday at their burned …

16-04-2022 SANA’A/ DUBAI: The US Navy says it is setting up a new multinational task force to patrol the waters around Yemen amid a drastically fatal effect that a 2015-to-present Saudi-led blockade has on the country. The US Navy announced on Wednesday that a new task force will patrol the …

16-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education in a statement called for the observation of Hijab by female teachers and the prohibition of neckties among male students and teachers. However, an official at the MoE told media that this was just at the level …

16-04-2022 LANSING, MICHIGAN: Police video has been released of a white officer fatally shooting a black man in the back of the head after a scuffle over a stun gun in the US state of Michigan. Footage of the April 4 incident in Grand Rapids, Michigan, shows Patrick Lyoya, 26, …

15-04-2022 NEW YORK/ RIYADH: Elon Musk has questioned Saudi Arabia’s role in Twitter Inc after Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal tweeted his opposition to the billionaire entrepreneur’s offer to buy the social media company. The prince tweeted on Thursday from his verified account that Musk’s offer of a $43bn …

15-04-2022 JERUSALEM: At least 152 Palestinians were injured in a raid when Israeli riot police entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday, extending a recent resurgence of violence that has raised fears of a slide back to wider conflict. Most of the Palestinian injuries were incurred by rubber bullets, stun …

15-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s powerful military has dismissed deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusation that the United States had conspired to topple him in a parliamentary vote of confidence. Khan, 69, who led the South Asian country of 220 million people for three and …

15-04-2022 LONDON: Researchers have discovered that women suffer from headaches more than men, the Daily Mail reported. Studies show that 6% of women spend half of every month with a headache, compared to 2.9% of men. This means more than one in 20 women are victims of a throbbing head. …

15-04-2022 WASHINGTON: Americans paid more for gasoline, food and other essentials last month amid an ongoing wave of record inflation made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to government data released Tuesday. The consumer price index (CPI) climbed 8.5% over the 12 months to March, the biggest jump since …

15-04-2022 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Tensions on the ground in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory are heading towards a large-scale eruption this Ramadan, analysts expect, as residents of the besieged Gaza Strip fear yet another war. “We are moving gradually towards an escalation, the conditions are ripe for an explosion,” Jerusalem-based political …