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15-08-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ NEW DELHI: The Afghan foreign ministry has demanded the Indian government complete unfinished developmental projects in Afghanistan, Ariana News reported, as the country desperately seeks to stabilise the socio-economic situation. In a statement issued last Saturday, the foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) …

15-08-2022 CAIRO: Funerals have been held in two Cairo churches for 41 victims of a fire that ripped through a Coptic Christian church during mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows. The blaze on Sunday, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the Abu Sifin church in densely populated Imbaba, …

14-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI/ LONDON/ KARACHI: Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is now able to talk, a friend and his agent said, a day after the acclaimed novelist was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York. Rushdie, …

14-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the group’s return to power. Since seizing control on August 15 …

14-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies COLOMBO/ BEIJING: Sri Lanka says it has granted permission for a controversial Chinese research vessel to visit the island, despite security concerns raised by neighboring India. The Yuan Wang 5 is described as a research and survey vessel by international shipping and analytics sites, but …

14-08-2022 JERUSALEM: A gunman has opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City, wounding dozens people, two of them critically, according to medics and the Israeli police. The attack took place in the early hours of Sunday, as the bus carrying Israelis waited in a parking lot near the …

13-08-2022 WASHINGTON: FBI agents seized records marked “top secret” during their search of former president Donald Trump´s Florida estate, according to documents made public Friday in a probe that includes possible violations of the US Espionage Act. The search warrant and related materials, unsealed by a Florida judge, showed agents …

13-08-2022 NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye after he was repeatedly stabbed at a literary event in New York State. Following the attack just before 11:00 am …

12-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall have finalized their divorce after six years of marriage, Hall’s lawyer said Thursday. It is the fourth divorce for the 91-year-old Murdoch, who married Hall, 66, in London in March 2016. “Jerry and Rupert Murdoch have finalized their divorce,” …

12-08-2022 KUALA LAMPUR: Malaysia has made a new government tracking system for the more than 184,000 United Nations-registered refugees and asylum seekers in the country a “must”, raising concerns about the risks to people who have no legal status or protections in Malaysia. Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin announced that the …