12-11-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Tensions between India and Pakistan appear to be on the rise again after both countries’ capitals were rocked by deadly blasts just a day apart from each other, fueling fears of another full-blown clash this year. On Tuesday afternoon, a …
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12-11-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader’s plans to join a US-led coalition to fight the militant group that he has long battled. The sources, a senior Syrian security official and …
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12-11-2025 ISTANBUL: A team from the international crime watchdog FATF will evaluate Turkey this month after removing it from its “grey list” last year for progress made in fighting money laundering and the funding of terrorist activity, five sources said. Turkey has to show it is meeting commitments or it …
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12-11-2025 WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Sunday moved forward on a measure aimed at reopening the federal government and ending a now 40-day shutdown that has sidelined federal workers, delayed food aid and snarled air travel. In a procedural vote, senators advanced a House-passed bill that will be amended to …
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12-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Crowds have demonstrated in New Delhi calling for action as the Indian capital faces another winter engulfed in smog. Pollution levels in New Delhi surged again on Monday morning as the city was immersed in a thick smog. The annual degradation of air quality in …
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12-11-2025 BRASILIA/ UNITED NATIONS: Climate-related disasters and conflict have displaced millions of people across the globe, the United Nations has warned before the opening of its annual climate change conference. The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a report, published on Monday to coincide with the launch of …
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12-11-2025 BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is bidding for a second term, a goal that requires his electoral bloc, the Construction and Development Coalition, to win a commanding number of seats in the November 11 parliamentary elections and back his selection for the role. Al-Sudani’s campaign is built …
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12-11-2025 NEW YORK: After Zohran Mamdani handily won the New York City mayoral election, becoming the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect, Republican detractors in Washington, DC, said they would try to stop him from taking office. President Donald Trump, who threatened to withhold federal funds to New …
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11-11-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ WANA-PESHAWAR: A ‘suicide attack’ outside a court in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has killed 12 people and injured at least 27 more, the country’s Interior Minister said. Mohsin Naqvi said a bomber was planning to attack the district courthouse but was unable to …
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11-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: In a significant breakthrough, Indian security agencies arrested two of India’s most wanted gangsters, who have been operating abroad. Security agency officials, including those from the Haryana Police, arrested Venkatesh Garg in Georgia, while Bhanu Rana was arrested in the United States. Rana is linked …
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