06-06-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: Washington and New Delhi established an ambitious roadmap for military industrial cooperation on Monday amid India’s efforts to reduce its dependence on arms supplier Russia and localize defence production. “We established an ambitious new roadmap for defence industrial cooperation, which will fast-track high priority …
Read More »Iranian embassy in Riyadh is set to open after 7 years
06-06-2023 RIYADH: Amid the Chinese-mediated rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March, Tehran is set to reopen its embassy in Riyadh Tuesday, as the diplomatic cut-off led to the closure of the embassy for seven years, reported AFP. The bilateral relations between the two regional heavyweights severed in 2016 …
Read More »Canada braces for worst wildfire season as blazes engulf country
06-06-2023 OTTAWA: Officials in Canada have warned that the country is on track to experience it’s most destructive wildfire season ever, as warm and dry conditions are expected to persist throughout the summer. Following an unprecedented start to the fire season, blazes are currently raging in nearly all Canadian provinces …
Read More »Mike Pence officially enters US presidential race for 2024
06-06-2023 WASHINGTON: Former US vice-president Mike Pence filed paperwork Monday to launch his presidential campaign in 2024, according to Federal Election Commission documents. Pence, who has served as vice president under the Trump administration, is expected to formally begin his campaign for the Republican nomination on Wednesday, as a Pence …
Read More »3-year-old Palestinian boy dies from Israeli gunfire
06-06-2023 JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: A three-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed Haitham al-Tamimi, who was shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week, succumbed to his wounds on Monday, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. Despite extensive efforts by the medical team at Sheba Hospital, where he had …
Read More »“Australia’s worst female serial killer” pardoned after 20 years
06-06-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Kathleen Folbigg, previously labelled “Australia’s worst female serial killer,” has been granted a pardon following the emergence of new evidence that raises doubts about her alleged involvement in the deaths of her four infant children. After a jury convicted Folbigg of killing her sons Caleb …
Read More »Amnesty calls for global action to mitigate heatwaves in Pakistan
05-06-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: A prominent human rights organization has issued an urgent plea for global action to protect Pakistan from extreme heatwaves, saying the South Asian country is at the “frontline of the climate crisis”. In a report to mark World Environment Day on …
Read More »Another train derails in India 3 days after deadly accident
05-06-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ODISHA: A private goods train Monday derailed in India’s Odisha three days after a three-train collision, the deadliest in the nuclear-armed country in two decades killed 275 and injured over 1,000. Today’s accident took place in Odisha’s Bargarh, while the previous collision occurred …
Read More »Russia claims to have thwarted ‘large-scale’ Ukraine attack
05-06-2023 MOSCOW: On Monday, Russia announced that its forces successfully thwarted a major offensive launched by Ukraine at multiple locations along the front in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The clash resulted in the deaths of hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops, according to Russian authorities. It remains uncertain whether this reported attack …
Read More »China accuses US of provocation after warships nearly collide
05-06-2023 BEIJING: China’s Defense Minister, Li Shangfu, in a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, accused the United States and its allies of attempting to destabilize the Indo-Pacific region. These remarks came only hours after warships from both countries narrowly avoided a collision at sea. Li alleged …
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