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29-03-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Israel hosted the foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the United States in a bid to strengthen its position in a rapidly shifting Middle East. The gathering brought together the top diplomats from all but one of the Arab countries that have normalized relations with Israel …

29-03-2022 MOSCOW: On March 16, Pope Francis held a video meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the 75-year-old leader of the Russian Orthodox Church and a longtime ally of President Vladimir Putin. The head of the Catholic Church warned the Russian patriarch against hiding behind religion to justify armed aggression and conquest. …

29-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The UK High Court has ruled that the Home Office was wrong in denying British citizenship to an Afghan national on the grounds of “good character” because he was once a member of Afghan warlord Gulbadin Hikmetyar’s Hizb-e-Islami (HEI). The Afghan national, …

28-03-2022 MEXICO CITY: At least 19 people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting attack in central Mexico, according to authorities. Authorities did not immediately release a motive for the attack on Sunday evening that targeted a gathering in the town of Las Tinajas in Michoacan state. …

28-03-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has been practicing “apartheid” against Palestinians over the past decades, an independent UN human rights expert said, calling on the world body to devise a list of measures aimed at effectively holding the occupying regime to account for the crime. In a report to the …

28-03-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council announced a voluntary and unilateral three-day pause in retaliatory strikes against targets in Saudi Arabia, saying that a permanent ceasefire would be possible if the Saudi-led coalition ends its attacks on Yemen. Mahdi al-Mashat said on Saturday that in line …

28-03-2022 BEIJING: China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the southwestern city of Kunming to the port city of Guangzhou on Monday when it plummeted from cruising altitude to …

28-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Women’s rights activists pledged Sunday to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls’ secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the group reopened their institutions for …

28-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing hijab ban in schools of India which has drawn the ire of Muslims and rights activists from across the globe, Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu has spoken up for the rights of Hijabi girls. According to The Print, Sandhu, during a question and …

27-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/WASHINGTON: The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was …