WHO urges world to keep administering AstraZeneca’s vaccine 20-03-2021 GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called on the world to keep using AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, adding its endorsement to that of European and British regulators after concerns over blood clotting. “We urge countries to continue using this important COVID-19 …

20-03-2021 WASHINGTON: The largest asteroid to sweep past Earth this year will make its closest approach on Sunday but scientists have told people not to panic as it poses no threat to the planet. The giant space rock that researchers call 2001 FO32 has a diameter of several hundred meters …

20-03-2021 TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ OTTAWA: People across the world are observing Nowruz, the Persian New Year, today. Nowroz is celebrated yearly across the globe when the spring equinox begins and is the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar. The day has Iranian and Zoroastrian …

20-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief has called on arch rivals India and Pakistan to “bury the past” and move towards cooperation, an overture towards New Delhi that follows an unexpected joint ceasefire announcement last month between the two countries’ militaries. General Qamar …

20-03-2021 RIYADH/ SANA’A/ DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said drones struck an oil facility in the capital of Riyadh on Friday, igniting a fire at the installation. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an official in the energy ministry as saying the dawn attack caused no injuries or damage, and did not …

20-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban warned the United States on Friday against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction” though failing to specify exactly what it would be. The …

19-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: It has not only been proved that the FBI is worst than the Scotland Yard but this claim has also been acknowledged, recognized and confirmed by dozens of FBI and Scotland Yard present and former officials, impartial experts, independent analysts as …

19-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The United States was joined by Russia, China and Pakistan on Thursday in calling on Afghanistan’s warring sides to reach an immediate ceasefire, at talks that showed Washington’s determination to win backing from regional powers for …

19-03-2021 Bureau Report KUWAIT CITY/ ISLAMABAD: Kuwait, after a ten-year-long suspension, will be resuming work visas to Pakistanis, according to Minister for Interior Shaikh Rasheed. While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Rasheed said the Kuwait interior minister has assured him the country will resume work visas for Pakistanis. He said …

19-03-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked his US counterpart Joe Biden, escalating a war of words between the two world leaders. Putin said “it takes one to know one” after Biden, a day earlier, said he thought the Russian leader was a “killer”. Biden made the …