International

04-09-2022 WARSAW: The remains of a “female vampire” have been found in a village in Poland pinned by a sickle across her throat, reported First News. Her toe was found padlocked so she could not “return from the dead”. The skeleton was discovered at a 17th-century cemetery during archaeological work. …

04-09-2022 FLORIDA: NASA has aborted a second launch attempt for its giant Moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak. Mission managers called off preflight operations on Saturday, about three hours before the 2:17pm EDT (1817 GMT) liftoff time targeted for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion …

04-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to devastating flooding that has killed at least 1,265 people. Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal called for an “immense humanitarian response for 33 million people” affected by monsoon rains that …

04-09-2022 MISSISSIPPI: A pilot of a small plane who threatened to crash into a Walmart store in Mississippi has landed without any injuries and was taken into custody, Governor Tate Reeves has said. “Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured,” Reeves said on Twitter on …

03-09-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday shared a video of the commissioning of INS Vikrant into the Indian Navy and said that he can’t express the feeling of pride in words. PM Modi on Friday commissioned the first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier …

03-09-2022 CAPE CANAVERAL: Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA’s towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days ago. Launch controllers began filling the 32-story tall Space Launch …

03-09-2022 MOSCOW: Russia laid to rest the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in a Moscow ceremony but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader beloved of the West, lived long enough to see …

Thousands in Iraq demand regime change 03-09-2022 BAGHDAD: Angered by a months-long political crisis, thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, days after deadly clashes between rival Shia groups sparked fears of widespread unrest. The non-partisan protesters streamed into western Baghdad’s Al-Nusoor Square on Friday, …

03-09-2022 MAIDUGURI: Gunmen kidnapped dozens of worshippers attending Friday afternoon prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara, police and witnesses said. Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria’s northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has been increasing, where thinly stretched security forces often fail …

02-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia raised its ceiling on permanent migration in a move that will allow as many as 35,000 more workers to enter the country every year as part of an effort to ease worsening labor shortages. The increase could see many more …