International

15-08-2021 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 has hit a record-high in the United States, which continues to grapple with the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, especially in areas with low vaccination rates. Pediatric hospitalizations hit 1,902 on Saturday, according to data from the …

15-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past, the Pentagon acknowledged on Monday. ”India has played a constructive role in Afghanistan in the past in terms of training and other infrastructure improvements,” Pentagon …

15-08-2021 PORT-AU-PRINCE: At least 304 people have been killed after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Haiti, reducing buildings to rubble and sending terrified residents running out of their homes in search of safety. In a news conference on Saturday evening, the head of the country’s civil protection agency, Jerry …

14-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL: The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the insurgents’ relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations. With the country’s second- and third-largest cities having fallen into Taliban …

14-08-2021 NEW YORK: Drug-makers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech, and Moderna Inc are expected to make billions of dollars from COVID-19 booster shots in a market that could rival the $6 billion in annual sales for flu vaccines for years to come, analysts and healthcare investors say. For several months, the companies …

14-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CHAMAN-SPIN BOLDAK BORDER/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistani forces have clashed with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan’s side of a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after its closure by the Taliban, Pakistani security officials say. The disturbances broke out on Thursday after a …

14-08-2021 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Immigration advocates are criticizing US President Joe Biden’s asylum policies, saying expulsions of migrants at the United States-Mexico border and other deterrent measures were “cruel, unlawful and ineffective”. In a letter to Biden and top officials on Friday, more than 100 organizations urged the Democratic president …

14-08-2021 JERUSALEM/ HEBRON: Israeli security forces used stun grenades to disperse a crowd of Muslim worshippers performing traditional Friday prayers outside the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. At least one person could be seen thrown onto the ground and kicked by Israeli forces. It was …

13-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The Biden administration, struggling to contain the rapid collapse of much of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, on Thursday announced it was pulling most U.S. Embassy personnel out of Kabul and urged American citizens for the second time in …

13-08-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian National Congress said on Thursday that Twitter has locked the party’s official account, as well as, accounts of 5,000 of its leaders and workers as “selective” action for sharing a photograph of the family of a nine-year-old rape victim, reported NTDV. …