By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A bomb had exploded in a western district of the Afghanistan’s capital Kabul where members of the minority Shia community regularly meet. Daesh (also known as ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban) claimed responsibility for the attack, the group said on its Telegram channel. A …

07-08-2022 TEHRAN: The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that the Palestinians are “not alone” in their fight against Israel as they faced a second day of air strikes in Gaza. “Today, all the anti-Zionist jihadi capabilities are on the scene in a united formation working to liberate Jerusalem …

07-08-2022 LONDON: A London hospital on Saturday withdrew life support for 12-year-old British boy Archie Battersbee after his parents lost a long, emotive and divisive legal battle. Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, said her son passed away just over two hours after the artificial ventilation was stopped. “Such a beautiful little …

07-08-2022 DHAKA: Bangladesh raised fuel prices by around 50% on Saturday, a move that will trim the country’s subsidy burden but put more pressure on inflation that is already running above 7%. The South Asian country’s $416 billion economy has been one of the fastest-growing in the world for years. …

06-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Congress Party in India is holding protests across the country over inflation and rising unemployment, Indian media reported. Times of India reported that several Congress leaders stepped out wearing black shirts, kurtas, and bands on their sleeves to mark their protests. NDTV quoted Rahul …

06-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico’s largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said. Two members of the same mosque were shot dead in Albuquerque in the last …

05-08-2022 BAGHDAD: Tens of thousands of followers of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prayed on Friday at an iconic Baghdad military parade ground built by the late President Saddam Hussein, in yet another symbolic display of Sadr’s sway over much of the Iraqi people. Sadr has in the past week commanded …

05-08-2022 LONDON: In the salt field of the Utah desert, archaeologists accidentally found “ghost footprints”. They are given the name because the tracks appear only after it rains. As soon as the land dries out, the prints disappear. Scientists bumped into the prints in Early July while driving to an …

05-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world’s most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs. Rice has bucked the trend …

05-08-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart on Friday in Sochi, after brokering a grain shipment deal between Moscow and Kyiv and as a new Turkish military intervention in Syria remains a possibility. The summit with Vladimir Putin comes in the same week that a …