04-05-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized as “radical” a draft US Supreme Court decision that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a bombshell that was denounced by Democrats and stunned even some moderate Republicans. The court confirmed that the text, published …

03-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s western state of Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heatstroke since late March, the highest toll in the past five years, with more fatalities likely elsewhere in a country sweltering in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Scientists have linked the early onset of an …

03-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day to spotlight media freedom around the world. This year, UNESCO’s theme, Journalism Under Digital Siege, will focus on the effect of digitization on freedom of expression, access to information …

03-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ DAMASCUS/ ISLAMABAD: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan’s women, girls and human rights, Rina Amiri, said that at an Iftar dinner ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries “agreed that the Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls.” Amiri said that …

03-05-2022 KYIV: Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ran into delays on Monday and hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, the last stronghold of resistance to the Russian siege. It was not immediately clear what was causing the hold-up. A …

03-05-2022 LONDON: A 34-year-old man in England, Harry Matadeen, has claimed that drinking his own urine daily “cured” his depression and made him look 10 years younger, media reported. The publication cited New York Post as stating that Matadeen’s desperation to get rid of his mental health issues drove him …

03-05-2022 SEOUL: South Korea’s consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years in April on the back of surging food and energy prices, in the latest sign of high inflation taking off in Asia. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its consumer price index (CPI) rise 4.8 percent last …

02-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al Jazeera KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: People across Afghanistan celebrated Eid on Sunday, but for millions of Afghans, it was yet another day of struggle to bring food to the table. More than 90 percent of Afghans have been facing a shortage of food, …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives. Successive …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia will discuss the option of extending the terms of its $3bn deposit in Pakistan’s central bank to help Islamabad’s faltering economy, according to a joint statement. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has provided Pakistan with $4.2bn of support in the form …