24-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report GUANTANAMO BAY/ KARACHI: Officials from the United States have returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country after holding them for 20 years without charges at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Abdul, 55, and Mohammed Rabbani, 53, were the latest inmates to be …
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24-02-2023 Bureau Report + BBC LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The BBC will not be put off from reporting without fear or favor, its Director-General Tim Davie has said in an email to staff in India. It follows searches at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai by tax officials. Davie thanked staff …
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24-02-2023 OUAGADOUGOU: The body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary and charismatic leader Thomas Sankara has been reburied alongside 12 comrades at the spot of their assassination nearly 30 years ago. Soldiers and community leaders paid tribute during a ceremony on Thursday at the site in the capital, Ouagadougou, which has since …
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24-02-2023 TOKYO: A huge iron ball that washed up on a local beach in a coastal town in Japan has left police and locals confused. For now, authorities have no clue what it exactly is except the fact that it is not something that would explode. Since it washed up …
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24-02-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MANILA: Australia and the Philippines are exploring the possibility of joint patrols in the disputed South China Sea, where recent “aggressive activities” by the Chinese Coast Guard towards a Philippine vessel saw Beijing’s envoy in Manila summoned by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “As …
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24-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A new report by Crisis Group warns against international donors cutting aid to Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s curbs on women’s education and ability to work at NGOs, instead arguing for Western countries to find a “liminal space between …
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24-02-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ KARACHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest data, with too few countries in the world managing to substantially reduce maternal death rates since 2016. The report, Trends in Maternal Mortality, showed that while …
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24-02-2023 Bureau Report BRISBANE/ MELBOURNE: Within days of the Indian foreign minister’s high-profile visit to Australia, a video is making rounds on social media with the “Khalistan” Flag raised at Indian Consulate in Brisbane. In the video, G-20 foreign ministers have been urged to visit New Delhi’s “Widow Colony” inhibited …
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24-02-2023 ABUJA: The 18 presidential candidates of Nigeria’s general election have signed a second peace accord in the capital, Abuja, in a bid to prevent unrest surrounding the February 25 polls. The pact is to ensure “the conduct of free, fair, credible, transparent and verifiable elections cognizant of the need …
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24-02-2023 MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has said the delayed Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will be deployed this year, in comments made on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The RS-28 Sarmat liquid-fueled missile dubbed Satan 2 by Western analysts was first announced by …
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