14-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies COLOMBO/ BEIJING: Sri Lanka says it has granted permission for a controversial Chinese research vessel to visit the island, despite security concerns raised by neighboring India. The Yuan Wang 5 is described as a research and survey vessel by international shipping and analytics sites, but …

14-08-2022 JERUSALEM: A gunman has opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City, wounding dozens people, two of them critically, according to medics and the Israeli police. The attack took place in the early hours of Sunday, as the bus carrying Israelis waited in a parking lot near the …

13-08-2022 WASHINGTON: FBI agents seized records marked “top secret” during their search of former president Donald Trump´s Florida estate, according to documents made public Friday in a probe that includes possible violations of the US Espionage Act. The search warrant and related materials, unsealed by a Florida judge, showed agents …

13-08-2022 NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye after he was repeatedly stabbed at a literary event in New York State. Following the attack just before 11:00 am …

12-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall have finalized their divorce after six years of marriage, Hall’s lawyer said Thursday. It is the fourth divorce for the 91-year-old Murdoch, who married Hall, 66, in London in March 2016. “Jerry and Rupert Murdoch have finalized their divorce,” …

12-08-2022 KUALA LAMPUR: Malaysia has made a new government tracking system for the more than 184,000 United Nations-registered refugees and asylum seekers in the country a “must”, raising concerns about the risks to people who have no legal status or protections in Malaysia. Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin announced that the …

12-08-2022 WASHINGTON: Former United States President Donald Trump has called for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Department of Justice (DoJ) asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest …

12-08-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A prominent Taliban religious leader, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, has been killed in a bombing attack at a seminary in Kabul, Taliban officials have said. “Very sadly informed that respected cleric (Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani) was martyred in a cowardly attack by enemies,” said Bilal Karimi, a …

12-08-2022 By SJA Jafri HARVARD/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Social media is in love with a friendship between a Pakistani and Indian after the Indian friend posted about her Pakistani classmate. Two students at the Harvard Business School in the United States have broken many stereotypes associated with the conflict between …

11-08-2022 DUBAI: A new report revealed that the city of gold Dubai is ready to have the best-performing residential sector on the planet. In the first half of 2022, prices of properties in the city raised by 4.7%. As a result, among 30 major global cities, Dubai ranked fourth in …