23-09-2022 LONDON/ DOHA: Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has obtained the largest leak in British political history, exposing how unelected officials undermined democracy within the Labour Party. The leaked data comprises 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021. The …

23-09-2022 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: World leaders at the United Nations have called for Moscow to be held accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defended his country’s actions in the seven-month war. Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council on alleged atrocities committed in …

23-09-2022 NEW YORK/ TEHRAN/ DUBAI: President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran delivered his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday during which he stressed Iran seeks justice in the world while emphasizing that its atomic program is totally peaceful. The Iranian president started his speech by pointing out that …

23-09-2022 Israel has agreed to sell an advanced air defence system to the United Arab Emirates, two sources familiar with the matter said, in the first such known deal between them since they forged ties in 2020. The deal reinforces how, for some Arab states, resolving the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict …

23-09-2022 BEIJING: The central Chinese province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply “red alert” for the first time as a prolonged drought dried up much of the water in the country’s biggest lake. The provincial government said on Friday that water levels in Poyang Lake, usually a flood outlet …

22-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ ISLAMABAD: United States President Joe Biden on Thursday highlighted the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan and asked the international community to help flood-hit Pakistan. The recent unprecedented monsoon rains triggered floods across the country that have caused massive devastation. More than …

22-09-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: RRR, which was supposedly going to be nominated for the Oscars 2023 making India’s official entry to the Academy Awards and it has been disregarded by the Film Federation of India. Instead, they picked up the Gujrati film Chhellow Show. The US Distributor of the …

22-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Australia’s Federal Court has ruled in favour of an Indigenous group’s challenge against a drilling permit for Santos Ltd’s Barossa gas development, in what the Santos Company called a “disappointing” setback for the $3.6bn project. Traditional landowners from the Tiwi Islands led by Dennis …

22-09-2022 TEHRAN: Several Iranian government and state-affiliated media websites are down after a Twitter account linked to the “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed to have launched cyberattacks on them, aimed at supporting protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old woman from the northwestern province of Kurdistan died in Tehran …

22-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the education and rights of women in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban took over, Somaya Faruqi, the former captain of the Afghan girls’ robotics team, …