09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban flogged 27 Afghans, including women, in front of a large crowd Thursday, a day after publicly executing a convicted murderer for the first time since they returned to power last year. Their chief spokesman also pushed back …

09-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ GUJARAT: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a record-breaking landslide victory in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat for a seventh straight term. The right-wing party is leading in 156 of the 182 seats in the state assembly, according to …

09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US State Department on Wednesday warned of action if international terrorists regroup in Afghanistan, fearing the Taliban-ruled country may become a haven for militants again. The concerns were raised during a press briefing by the State Department …

09-12-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND: The complete head and body of an ancient marine reptile with “flippers like a turtle and long neck like a giraffe” has been uncovered in Queensland in what scientists say is a rare discovery. Paleontologists unearthed the complete fossil of the plesiosaur near the remote …

09-12-2022 INDIANAPOLIS: The popular social media app TikTok has been sued by the US state of Indiana. Its attorney general Todd Rokita has accused TikTok’s parent company ByteDance of violating the state’s consumer protections laws. The state alleges that the app fails to safeguard young people and privacy. However, TikTok …

09-12-2022 BERLIN: The Reichsburger were, for years, a source of national derision, dismissed as crackpots but they’re increasingly a source of concern for the security services who say they’re becoming more radical and more dangerous. Members don’t recognize the post-war German state and reject the authority of its government. Despite …

09-12-2022 KINSHASA: A UN investigation has found that at least 131 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo died in a November attack by the M23 rebel group. The UN report said the massacre took place in two villages, Kishishe and Bambo in the Rutsuhuru district of the eastern North …

09-12-2022 JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH: The Israeli army has four three more Palestinians during a raid in Jenin, the latest people to die in a months-long Israeli campaign of near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian ministry of health identified the three killed on Thursday morning as Siqdi Zakarneh, 29, …

09-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN service providers NordVPN. Bot markets are …

09-12-2022 TEHRAN: Iran has announced what is the first publicly known execution of a person convicted for an alleged crime stemming from the country’s ongoing protests. The man executed was identified on Thursday by the official news website of the Iranian judiciary as Mohsen Shekari. He was convicted of “waging …