By SJA Jafri 30-10-2023 QUETTA/ KARACHI: “There is nothing to be worried about. Whether they’re 12 or 18 years old, we take guys of these ages too.” A people smuggler in Quetta, who arranges illegal routes out of Pakistan, is explaining his business model to an undercover journalist. For 2.5m …
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30-10-2023 NEW YORK/ JERUSALEM: Internet monitoring service NetBlocks posted network data on X, formerly known as twitter showing that internet connectivity was being restored on Sunday. Phone lines and internet connections are slowly returning to Gaza after more than a day of almost total communications blackout. Connectivity was cut as …
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29-10-2023 NEW YORK/ LONDON/ ISTANBUL: Gaza suffered a total communications blackout Friday night, cutting off its residents from the rest of the world as a result of Israel’s bombardment, a move which was protested by global citizens on Saturday. Pro-Palestine protesters in London, New York, and Turkey took to the …
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29-10-2023 LONDON/ DUABI/ ISLAMABAD: The moon passed through part of Earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday and was visible to potentially millions of stargazers across the Eastern Hemisphere, providing an early skygazing treat just days before Halloween. The October 28 partial lunar eclipse, the last of four …
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29-10-2023 CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Australia has returned to Beijing three historical artefacts that were smuggled out of China. A dinosaur fossil that is more than 100 million years old and two Tang Dynasty figurines were handed to Chinese officials in Canberra. Police working at the Australian border had seized the items …
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29-10-2023 TEHRAN: A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after an alleged altercation with morality police earlier this month has died, state media and activists say. Armita Geravand, 16, collapsed after boarding a Tehran metro train on 1 October. Activists accused morality police of assaulting her for not …
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29-10-2023 JERUSALEM: The near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Palestinian territory risks providing cover for mass atrocities, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. Internet access and the phone network were completely cut across the Gaza Strip on Friday, nearly three weeks after Israel …
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29-10-2023 LEWISTON, MAINE: The man suspected of killing 18 people and wounding 13 in a shooting rampage in Lewiston, Maine, was found dead of a likely self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, ending a 48-hour manhunt that followed the most lethal episode of gun violence in the state’s history. The body …
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29-10-2023 VANCOUVER, CANADA: Dr Bakhshish Singh Sandhu, Council of Khalistan’s president, has asserted that the assassination of Canadian Citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar has ignited unwavering support for Khalistan’s independence within the Sikh community. Ahead of the Khalistan Referendum voting on Sunday, here at Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, Dr Bakhshish Singh …
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29-10-2023 TEL AVIV: Israeli fighter jets struck 150 “underground targets” in northern Gaza during an intense night of raids, the army said Saturday, three weeks after the deadliest attack in the country’s history. A military statement said the sites hit included “terror tunnels, underground combat spaces and additional underground infrastructure. …
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