30-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ AYBAK/ ISLAMABAD: As many as 16 Shia studentsamong 21 civilians have been killed after a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban regime has said. The blast took place in Aybak in the Samangan province and left …
Read More »TTP strikes in Pakistan’s Quetta after ending ceasefire
30-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ QUETTA: A suicide bomb blast has struck a police vehicle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least one police officer and two civilians and wounding dozens, according to police. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as the …
Read More »Foreign forces must leave region: Iran
30-11-2022 TEHRAN: Deploring outsiders for upsetting security and creating problems in the region, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the withdrawal of foreign forces will be conducive to regional security. Speaking at a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Tehran on Tuesday, the Iranian president said, …
Read More »Genealogy leads to Canada arrest in 1983 murders
30-11-2022 OTTAWA: Genealogical testing has led to an arrest in the 1983 murders of two women in Toronto, one of whom was the daughter of a founder of gold mining giant Barrick Gold, police said Monday. Erin Gilmour, 22, and Susan Tice, 45, were found stabbed to death four months …
Read More »UK summons China after arrest of BBC journalist
30-11-2022 LONDON/ BEIJING: The United Kingdom has summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering protests against Beijing’s zero-COVID-19 policy. Zheng Zeguang was called in to the foreign office on Tuesday after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in …
Read More »Muslim student shuts up Indian Prof for calling him ‘terrorist’
30-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: In the latest case of Islamophobia in India, a professor at Bengaluru’s Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) from the coastal region of Karnataka allegedly called a Muslim student a “terrorist” in a viral video on the internet. The student, however, did not take the …
Read More »Russian anger as Pope labels ethnic groups ‘cruel’
30-11-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. The “cruelest” troops are generally Chechens and Buryats, Pope Francis told a US magazine. He also labelled the Holodomor famine …
Read More »Israel murders 4 more Palestinians in West Bank
30-11-2022 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Four more Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli forces in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials say. Two were brothers who were shot dead as clashes broke out with Israeli troops during an operation near Ramallah. The third was martyred …
Read More »England witnesses rapid surge in Muslim population
30-11-2022 LONDON: The Muslim population in England and Wales grew rapidly during the past 10 years, showed the census data released by Office for National Statistics (ONS) Tuesday. According to the 10-yearly census carried out in 2021, no religion rose by 12 points to 37.2% or 22.2 million, while Muslims …
Read More »Syria Raps UNHRC’s Anti-Iran Resolution
TEHRAN ‘Nov’29 2022 – The foreign minister of Syria slammed the UN Human Rights Council’s recent resolution against Iran as a proof that the West abuses the international mechanisms to fulfill its political objectives. Faisal al-Mekdad made the remark in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on …
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