03-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: As the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way we work, Australians are now pushing for a future where remote work options become a permanent fixture in their lives. The call for Work-From-Home (WFH) flexibility is growing louder as employees value the newfound work-life balance and …
Read More »‘Attacks in Pakistan buttressed by regional militant landscape’
03-08-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ KARACHI: The deadly July suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highlights a troublesome trend of violence in the region. The bombing on Sunday targeted those attending a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Uleme-e-Islam-Fazal …
Read More »Trump indicted 3rd time over efforts to overturn 2020 US election
03-08-2023 WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for the third time, this time around in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. This is the first time in history that a former US president is facing three criminal indictments since he started his 2024 Republican …
Read More »Australians demand WFH flexibility beyond pandemic
03-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: As the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way we work, Australians are now pushing for a future where remote work options become a permanent fixture in their lives. The call for Work-From-Home (WFH) flexibility is growing louder as employees value the newfound work-life balance and …
Read More »5 killed during clashes in India after mosque set on fire
02-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A mosque was set on fire and a Muslim cleric killed during religious clashes that broke out after a procession by Hindu nationalist groups in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Those killed in the violence in the state include two “home guards”, …
Read More »NASA loses contact with probe after wrong command
02-08-2023 WASHINGTON: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe billions of miles away from Earth after mistakenly severing contact with it, the space agency has revealed. Last month, the spacecraft exploring space since 1977 was sent the wrong command, tilting its antenna to …
Read More »France to evacuate citizens after Niger coup
02-08-2023 PARIS/ ABUJA: France is preparing to evacuate its citizens from the West African nation of Niger because of anti-French sentiment following last week’s coup. It has said it will also help other European nationals to leave. The coup has prompted demonstrations against the former colonial power, with the French …
Read More »Sweden rules out sweeping changes to free speech law
02-08-2023 STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s government has no plans to make sweeping changes to freedom of speech laws but repeated it would look into measures that would allow police to stop the burning of holy books in public if there was a clear threat to national security. “We stand up for the …
Read More »Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi granted partial pardon
02-08-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling military has granted partial clemency to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, pardoning the Nobel laureate in five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted and jailed for a total of 33 years following a coup two years ago, according to media reports. The …
Read More »UK recognizes ‘acts of genocide’ against Yazidis by ISIL
02-08-2023 LONDON/ DAMASCUS: The United Kingdom has acknowledged that the Daesh/ Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group committed “acts of genocide” against the Yazidi people in 2014. Marking the ninth anniversary of atrocities committed by ISIL against …
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