18-11-2023 NEW YORK: A letter penned by Osama bin Laden justifying the 9/11 attacks in 2001 has gone viral on TikTok, with users expressing support for the extremist views expressed in the document, Daily Mail reported. Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, wrote the ‘Letter to America’ …

18-11-2023 KYIV/ LONDON: New Foreign Secretary David Cameron has made his first working visit to Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Lord Cameron reiterated the UK’s support for Ukraine, promising moral, diplomatic and “above all military support for… however long it takes”. Zelensky congratulated Cameron on his new post …

17-11-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KARACHI: US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Pakistan-born lawyer Adeel Mangi to serve on a Federal Appeals Court, reported The Washington Post. If the nomination goes through the Democratic-controlled US Senate, then Mangi, a Harvard and Oxford-trained lawyer, would become the first Muslim …

17-11-2023 ZOKHAWTHAR: Two days after rebel forces in Myanmar’s Chin state overran the junta’s two military bases close to the border with India, they have taken control of a border crossing point between the two countries across the tiny hilly Indian state of Mizoram. Most of the nearly 5,000 Myanmar …

17-11-2023 LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would pass an emergency law and warned Britain could quit the European human rights’ convention after the UK’s top judges dealt him a major blow by ruling his scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. After the UK Supreme Court …

17-11-2023 DOHA/ CAIRO: Qatari mediators on Wednesday sought to negotiate a deal between Hamas and Israel that included the release of around 50 civilian hostages from Gaza in exchange for a three-day ceasefire, an official briefed on the negotiations told media. The deal, under discussion and coordinated with the U.S., …

17-11-2023 BRUSSELS/ MOSCOW: Diamonds may be forever, but not when it comes to imports from Russia into the European Union. Russia is the biggest producer of rough diamonds cut from hundreds of mines beneath the Siberian permafrost, where a third of the world’s diamond supply comes from. Now the European …

17-11-2023 ONTARIO: A Canadian man accused of killing a Muslim family in London, Ontario, wanted to make “all Muslims fearful for their safety”, a jury has heard. Prosecutors said in their closing argument that Nathaniel Veltman had planned to send “a brutal message”. Veltman, 22, faces four first-degree murder charges …

17-11-2023 WASHINGTON: The US and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions, President Joe Biden says. “We’re back to direct, open, clear communications,” he said following a rare meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday. It was the first time …

Hyderabad; 16 Nov 2023 ( PMI ): In connection with TS Assembly elections-2023, on 16.11.2023 at about 20.30 hours while Charminar Police conducting vehicle checking near Deewan Dewadi, meantime they intercepted one two wheeler vehicles i.e.1.Suzuki Access bearing No TS-070JO-1964 driven by its rider along with pillion rider who carries …