22-10-2022 FLORIDA: The unexpected appearance of a live snake on a plane caused some disturbance among business-class passengers aboard a United Airlines jet at the end of a flight from Florida to New Jersey. As the plane taxied from the runway to the gate, passengers in the business-class cabin began …
Read More »Xi set to reveal China’s new senior leadership as Congress ends
22-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report BEIJING/ KARACHI: China and the world will find out who will be running the country alongside President and party General Secretary Xi Jinping when the Communist Party wraps up its twice-a-decade Congress this weekend. The country’s senior political leadership will be revealed on …
Read More »Pakistani couple arrested in Spain over daughter’s killing
22-10-2022 MADRID: Police in Spain said Friday they have arrested a Pakistani couple suspected of having killed their own daughter in Pakistan because she got married without their approval. Pakistani authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the couple after the killing committed in April 2020, Spain’s National Police said …
Read More »‘Half of Indian migrant engineers in Australia are unemployed’
21-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: The Press Media of India (PMI) has once again exposed another scam of Australian government, immigration authorities and other stakeholders while PMI also exposed worst and fraudulent migration system of Australia like the PMI has been exposing during last many decades, …
Read More »‘Iranian trainers on ground help Russia with Ukraine drone attacks’
21-10-2022 KYIV/ WASHINGTON: The White House has accused Iran of being “directly engaged on the ground” in Russian-occupied Crimea, helping to train the country’s forces on Iranian-made drones that have been used in attacks in Ukraine. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday that a “relatively small …
Read More »Over 150 killed in two days of fighting in Sudan
21-10-2022 KHARTOUM: At least 150 people have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes triggered by land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, a medic said Thursday. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets of …
Read More »Indonesia seeks return of ‘looted’ artefacts from Netherlands
21-10-2022 JAKARTA: Indonesia has asked the Netherlands, the country’s former colonial ruler – to return eight collections of historical artefacts from its museums, including the bones of “Java Man”, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus species from which humans are believed to have evolved. The artefacts, which are …
Read More »UK PM Liz Truss resigns after six weeks in office
21-10-2022 LONDON: Just a month-and-a-half after taking office, British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation as leader of the governing Conservative Party and said a new party leader and prime minister would be selected next week. Thursday’s development came after her new chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, …
Read More »Putin declares Martial Law in Russian-occupied Ukraine
20-10-2022 MOSCOW/ KYIV: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared Martial Law on Wednesday in four regions of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed but that it does not fully control, a move that would allow the pro-Russian authorities to impose even tighter restrictions as Moscow fights to hold off Ukraine’s …
Read More »US VP endorses Pakistani Dr Asif for Congress
20-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KARACHI: Vice President of United States Kamala Harris Wednesday endorsed Pakistani-American Dr Asif Mehmood for the Congress elections scheduled for November, Geo News reported. In July, former first lady Hillary Clinton had endorsed the Pakistani-American Democrat candidate for Congress and urged people to vote …
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