05-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iran and the Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal have once more clashed over the country’s nuclear program, this time after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment site. The global nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on …

05-02-2023 TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed one of his secretaries for homophobic comments that the prime minister called “outrageous”. Kishida said the remarks by Masayoshi Arai, in which he said he “doesn’t even want to look at” married same-sex couples, were “outrageous” and “incompatible” with an inclusive …

05-02-2023 JUBA: Pope Francis has met South Sudanese children displaced by conflict and heard of the hardships of their lives in camps, telling them they would build a better future for the world’s newest country by replacing ethnic hatred with forgiveness. The pope was visiting South Sudan with Archbishop of …

05-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered for a fifth week of protests against controversial judicial changes proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Protesters in the central city of Tel Aviv braved heavy rain for Saturday’s protest, carrying blue and white Israeli flags and chanting slogans against …

05-02-2023 WASHINGTON: The United States military has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, a week after it entered US airspace and triggered a dramatic spying saga that worsened relations between Beijing and Washington. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he had issued …

Hyderabad Feb 4 (PMI): AIMIM President and Member of Parliament Hyderabad Janab Asaduddin Owaisi said in every era, Muslims needed unity and I believe that unity can only be based on the love of Ahlaybayta.s. because disagreement can be in belief (aqeedah), and sects but it cannot be in religion, …

04-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government presented to Parliament an annual budget of $550bn that calls for ramping up capital spending by 33 percent to spur economic growth and create jobs in advance of a general election next year. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday …

04-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the government will have to agree to International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout conditions that are “beyond imagination”. Sharif’s comments on Friday came after an IMF delegation landed in Pakistan this week for last-ditch talks …

04-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained an academic who tore up his degrees on live television in protest against a ban on women’s university education in the country, his aide said on Friday. “From today I don’t need these diplomas …

04-02-2023 LONDON/ DUBAI: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman last year has sparked an irreversible “revolutionary process” that would eventually lead to the collapse of the republic. Iran’s clerical rulers have faced widespread unrest since Mahsa Amini died …