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11-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Dozens of bodies of people believed to have died from COVID-19 have washed up on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, officials said on Monday. District official Ashok Kumar said that about 40 corpses washed up in Buxar district near the border …

11-05-2021 GAZA/ JERUSALEM: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards Israel. The Gaza health ministry told media on Monday that 21 people, including children, had been …

11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report THATTA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Prominent human rights activist and General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Zeeshan Ali Khowaja Advocate urged the government of India to release 50 fishermen who had strayed into the waters of the other country and their boats also be …

10-05-2021 COLORADO SPRINGS: A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday, police said. The shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police said. Officers arrived at a trailer to find six …

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 …