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24-10-2021 RIYADH: One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change. The announcement on Saturday, made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Dozens of cops and people have been killed and injured while hundreds detained in clashes between protesters and members of a religious cum political party during last two days while the panic and fear also spread across Pakistan, sources and victims told PMI. …

23-10-2021 RIO GRANDE/ WASHINGTON: The US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months, the highest number ever recorded. More than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, according to data from US Customs and …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Al-Jazeera ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Thousands of Pakistani and Afghani journalists, media workers and outlets are at high risk of Taliban, Daesh, ISIS, ISIL and many other terrorist organizations not only because of neutralism but also due to reporting against these extremists or without their permission, sources …

23-10-2021 ABUJA: ISIL linked group’s gunmen have attacked a prison in southwestern Nigeria, freeing dozens of inmates, according to an official. Olanrewaju Anjorin, a spokesman of the Oyo correctional centre in Oyo state, told The Associated Press news agency on Saturday that the gunmen attacked the facility late on Friday …

23-10-2021 JERUSALEM: Israel has issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations”, in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority, rights groups, and the United Nations. The Israeli Ministry of Defence claimed on Friday that the groups were linked to the Popular Front …

23-10-2021 MAKKAH: After the Saudi government relaxed COVID-19 restrictions pertaining to holy sites, Muslims are flocking to the Grand Mosque in Makkah today to offer Jumma (Friday) prayers en masse. Todays will be the first Friday prayer to be offered in months at the Grand Mosque with a full strength …

22-10-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An explosion brought down electricity lines and cut off power to Kabul on Thursday, in a further blow to Taliban efforts to stabilise Afghanistan two months after they seized control. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but if it is confirmed as …

22-10-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australian authorities are offering a A$1m ($750,000; £540,000) reward for information on the whereabouts of a four-year-old girl they fear may have been abducted from a remote campsite. Cleo Smith was last seen sleeping in her family’s tent at the Quobba Blowholes coastal camp in Western …

22-10-2021 LONDON: Ali Harbi Ali, the man charged with murdering British Member of Parliament David Amess, considered himself affiliated with the Islamic State group (ISIL) and had settled on a plan to kill lawmaker years ago, a prosecutor said on Thursday. “Ali considered himself affiliated to Islamic State,” James Cable …