22-07-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan Thursday agreed to make all-out efforts to launch a luxury bus service between Peshawar and Jalalabad and Quetta and Kandahar by end of August this year. During the three-day bilateral talks between the two sides, which concluded on Wednesday, it was also …

22-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The US State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $2 billion worth of arms and equipment, including Patriot missiles for the Netherlands, cruise missiles for Australia, and oceanographic observation equipment for the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The sale comes as governments …

21-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is among the wonders of the animal kingdom. Researchers on Tuesday offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of penguins dating …

21-07-2022 JERUSALEM: An Israeli minister on Wednesday denounced as “stupid and harmful” to Israel-Gulf ties a TV report by a journalist who entered Islam’s holiest site Makkah despite a ban on non-Muslim visits and who apologised for the event after an online backlash. Israel’s Channel 13 News aired a 10-minute …

21-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that the ruling Taliban were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power. Sources verified that during the last ten (10) …

21-07-2022 COLOMBO: Anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of Sri Lanka’s capital and say they will continue their weeks-long uprising after parliament voted in acting leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president. Hundreds of protesters gathered at the GotaGoGama site in Colombo on Wednesday, where only last week …

21-07-2022 LOS ALAMOS/ NEW MEXICO: A new study reveals that the Arctic is melting four times faster than the rate of global warming. The study could not find contributing causes but suspected the causes may be linked to “sea ice and water-vapour feedbacks” combined with changes in how the atmosphere …

21-07-2022 TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hailed the fruitfulness of the country’s diplomatic approach and the unprecedented improvement of the level of trade relations with neighboring countries, calling on all executive bodies to adhere to the requirements of this approach. Speaking in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Raisi referred to …

21-07-2022 PARIS: The European Space Agency (ESA) has developed a robotic arm to pick tubes of soil samples from NASA’s Perseverance rover that is currently on the Martian surface searching for the right landing strip for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) spacecraft. The 8.2-feet-long arm has been named the Sample …

20-07-2022 LONDON: Britain recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, with the temperature exceeding 40C (104F) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing train tracks to buckle and fuelling a spate of fires across London. The Met Office said a new provisional record temperature of 40.3C (104.5F) was recorded in …