08-10-2021 NEW DELHI: India has begun delivering Covid-19 vaccines by commercial drones to speed up the vaccination drive, a senior government scientist told the BBC. Dr Samiran Panda said drones are being used to deliver doses in mountainous states in the country’s north-east. India aims to vaccinate all eligible citizens …

08-10-2021 TEHRAN: Iran decried the United States and the Israeli regime’s decades-long efforts to prevent the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free Middle East region. “In our region, the US stance and that of the Israeli regime on the Middle East free zone of nuclear weapons, initiated by Iran in 1974, …

  08-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies AMSTERDAM/ BRUSSELS/ KARACHI: Croatia, Greece and Romania have carried out hundreds of illegal pushback operations at the European Union’s external borders since early 2020 as part of a “violent campaign” to deny access to asylum, a new report alleges. The findings, published on …

07-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report HARNAI/ QUETTA/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: At least 20 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded after an earthquake strikes Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, local officials say, with rescue teams attempting to clear debris and gain access to the area. The 5.9 …

07-10-2021 LONDON: The UK is eager to show off its environmental credentials an important UN summit in the coming days but for the moment, is having trouble dealing with mounting protests at home from climate activists. Direct action group Extinction Rebellion has brought cities to a standstill and vowed to …

07-10-2021 WASHINGTON: The United States Supreme Court has begun hearing the case of a Guantanamo detainee seeking to compel two CIA contractors to testify about the alleged torture he was subjected to at an agency “black site” in Poland. The country’s top court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case …

07-10-2021 GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. The WHO recommendation is for RTS,S, sold as “Mosquirix”, a vaccine developed …

07-10-2021 PARIS: France will send its ambassador back to Australia to help redefine relations after withdrawing the envoy when Canberra ditched a defence accord with Paris in favor of a tie-up with Britain and the United States, its foreign minister said. France has accused its allies of stabbing it in …

06-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DAYKUNDI: The Taliban killed 13 more members of the Shia Hazara ethnic group, including a 17-year-old girl, in the central province of Daykundi, shortly after they took power in Afghanistan, according to a new report from Amnesty International. On …

06-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Indian government has announced an investigation into the Pandora Papers after several Indian businessmen and a prominent military man, among others, was named in the leaks, Geo News reported Tuesday. Per the report, the Indian government has ordered a probe into various agencies, which will be …