17-09-2022 DAMASCUS: Israel has carried out an air strike on Syria’s Damascus International Airport and other positions south of the capital, killing five soldiers and causing material damages, the ministry of defence said. Syrian air defences intercepted the attack and managed to down most of the missiles, the ministry said …

  16-09-2022 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Human-caused climate change likely contributed to the deadly floods in Pakistan recently, experts say in a new scientific analysis that looked at how much global warming was to blame. The World Weather Attribution, a collection of mostly volunteer scientists from around the world who …

16-09-2022 SAMARKAND-UZBEKISTAN: Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Russian and Chinese leaders met on Thursday as Putin’s relations with the West continued …

16-09-2022 SEOUL/ BEIJING: South Korea has repatriated the remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed during the Korean War, the first such ceremony since South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol took office in May. Wooden caskets containing the remains of the Chinese soldiers were handed over to a Chinese military honour guard …

16-09-2022 By Syed Najaf Ali Shoukat + Bureau Report + Agencies BAGHDAD/ NAJAF/ KARBALA/ KARACHI: Iraqi authorities have increased security nationwide in anticipation of the annual Shi’a Arba’een pilgrimage Sept. 16-17, when millions of pilgrims will converge on the holy city of Karbala. Attendance at this year’s event is expected …

15-09-2022 India has lodged a protest with the US for finalizing a deal to provide a $450-million sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet. On September 14, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh talked to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin over the phone and conveyed his country’s concerns to the US official. …

15-09-2022 TORONTO: Community tensions have risen in Canada’s multicultural district of Brompton after the police arrested an Indo-Canadian man for tearing Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s banner in the city of Caledon, Ontario, ahead of the September 18 voting for the Khalistan Referendum. Thirty-eight years after he was killed in …

15-09-2022 Bureau Report MOSCOW/ ISLAMABAD: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that pipeline gas supplies to Pakistan are possible, and that part of the necessary infrastructure is already in place, Russian state-owned news agency RIA reported. President Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met today on the sidelines …

15-09-2022 NEW YORK: Billionaire Elon Musk has claimed on Twitter that his tweets are being suppressed. Musk, who is fighting a legal battle with the microblogging platform even tagged Twitter and its CEO Parag Agarwal to resolve the issue. The Tesla CEO who has 105.6 million followers on Twitter realised …

15-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban are “looking into” a video circulating on social media that appears to show its fighters executing captured members of an anti-Taliban Afghan insurgent group (mostly Shia Muslims), a government spokesman said Wednesday. The National Resistance Front (NRF), a nascent …