International

25-12-2022 NEW YORK/ OTTAWA: A battering winter storm has left 1.7 million homes and businesses without power across the United States, as millions of people worry how the prospect of further outages will affect holiday and travel plans. More than 200 million people were under weather warnings on Saturday, as …

25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university. Video on social media shows women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to …

25-12-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: The United Nations has said Burkina Faso had no grounds for ordering senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country and that the doctrine of “persona non grata” could not be applied to her. Burkina Faso’s military government on Friday put out a statement instructing Manzi, an …

25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ KABUL/ DAMASCUS: Anti-Shia terror organizations, local and global networks, Asian, Arab, African, Israeli, Saudi, Pakistani and Australian chains directly and indirectly linked with different Taliban batches, al-Qaeda, Daesh, ISIS, Boko Haram, ISIL, JeI, LeJ, JeM, LeT and dozens others with or …

24-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives voted on Friday to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, scheduled to take effect at midnight in Washington DC (05:00 GMT on Saturday). The spending bill survived a Republican-led motion to adjourn, passing 225 to 201 …

24-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71 percent of New Delhi Television Ltd as the company’s founders have decided to sell most of their shares, four months after he launched a takeover of the news network. Adani already held 37 percent of NDTV after an …

24-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The congressional panel probing the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former US President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the …

24-12-2022 NEW YORK: A deep freeze enveloping most of the United States combined with a massive winter storm brewing in the Midwest to leave nearly two-thirds of the country under extreme weather alerts, confounding travel plans for millions of Americans. Heading into the Christmas holiday weekend, the looming storm was …

24-12-2022 PARIS: Scuffles have broken out after least three people were killed by a gunman in a central district of Paris, in what authorities say was likely a racially motivated attack targeting a Kurdish cultural centre. Angry residents took to the streets as police in riot gear cordoned off the …

24-12-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large. Amini’s family said she was beaten after being arrested by the morality police on Sept. …