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15-11-2021 GLASGOW/ BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China and India will have to explain themselves to climate-vulnerable nations, COP26 President Alok Sharma has said as the summit ends. It comes after the two nations pushed for the language on coal to change from “phase out” to “phase down” in the deal agreed …

 Million Afghan children at risk of dying  China resumes trade with Afghanistan  Flights begin from Kabul to Islamabad 14-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ GENEVA/ BEIJING: Interim Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Friday said that Afghanistan hopes that the temporary ceasefire deal reached …

14-11-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Authorities in India’s capital, New Delhi, have announced a one-week closure of schools and said they would consider a “pollution lockdown” to protect citizens from worsening levels of toxic smog. “Schools will be shut so that children don’t have to breathe polluted air,” Chief Minister …

14-11-2021 GUAYAQUIL: At least 68 inmates died in ghastly clashes between rival gangs at a prison in Ecuador, officials said Saturday, the latest bloodbath in the same jail that was the scene of a September riot which left 119 prisoners dead. Inmates at the prison in Guayaquil attacked members of …

14-11-2021 CAIRO/ ASWAN: Scorpions in Egypt have stung three people to death in the southern city of Aswan after heavy storms brought them into the streets and homes. Some 450 more people were injured by scorpion stings, a health ministry official said. The hail and thunder storm in the area …

13-11-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MANIPUR: At least five Indian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an attack carried out by an armed group in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, officials said. The suspected rebels ambushed a convoy of India’s paramilitary soldiers on Saturday those were on their …

13-11-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Large crowds of people packed Melbourne CBD in a protest against the Victorian government’s pending pandemic legislation. Thousands of mostly mask-less people carried Australian and Eureka flags as they marched through Melbourne CBD. Among the crowd was somebody carrying a fake gallows with three nooses strung from …

13-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least one person has been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that hit a vehicle in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials said. The incident on Saturday took place in Dasht-e Barchi, a Kabul suburb dominated by members of the …

13-11-2021 GLASGOW: Negotiators at this year’s United Nations climate talks are poring over fresh proposals aimed at sealing a deal that could credibly be said to boost the world’s efforts to tackle global warming. British officials chairing the COP26 talks in Glasgow, Scotland, released new draft agreements on Saturday after …

13-11-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: US President Joe Biden is expected to hold a hotly awaited virtual summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday, US media reported, as tensions mount over Taiwan, human rights and trade. Both CNN and Politico, citing unnamed sources, said the meeting was tentatively scheduled for …