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10-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DUNEDIN/ WELLINGTON: At least five people have been injured, three of whom are now in critical condition, after a stabbing attack at a New Zealand supermarket. The stabbing took place at a Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin on South Island in the afternoon. One person …

10-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens more people were killed and injured in the bombing of a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province, officials said on Monday. The blast took place late on Sunday night, said Zabul’s provincial governor’s spokesman Gul Islam Sial, adding 25 people …

10-05-2021 KARBALA/ BAGHDAD: Protesters have burned tyres and blocked roads in the Iraqi city of Karbala after a prominent civil activist was killed by unknown gunmen. Ihab Jawad Al-Wazni was killed in the early hours of Sunday near his home in the predominantly Shia city, according to a statement by the …

10-05-2021 JERUSALEM: After hundreds of Palestinian protestors sustained injuries during clashes with Israeli forces in Jerusalem over the weekend, the country vowed Sunday to restore order as a key court hearing on a flashpoint property dispute was postponed. The area around the revered Al-Aqsa mosque has seen several nights of …

10-05-2021 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: The remains of a Chinese rocket that was hurtling back towards Earth have crashed into the Indian Ocean, the country’s space agency says. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but state media reported that debris landed just west of the Maldives …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DASHT-E-BARCHI (AFGHANISTAN): As sunset approached, Latifah was busy preparing food for her family to break their fast when she heard a loud boom echo through the sky. The sound shook her two daughters, nine and six, who had just returned from …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GUJARAT/ NEW DELHI: Dozens of patients those were just recovered from COVID-19 infection have become blind across India especially Gujarat, Assam, Orissa Bihar and many other parts of the country, sources told PMI. Cases of Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, affecting COVID-19 survivors …

09-05-2021 BEIJING/ WELLINGTON/ WASHINGTON: Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of China’s new space station last month. At 18 tones it is one …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who won re-election Saturday, has risen from humble roots to spar with prime ministers and presidents since taking charge of the British capital five years ago. The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party, …

08-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 Shia Muslims and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack Afghan President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban. A senior …