31-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KANSAS/ KABUL/ KARACHI: An American woman has been arrested and charged with organizing and leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a mother who once lived in Kansas, allegedly trained women and children to use AK-47 assault rifles and suicide …
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31-01-2022 OTTAWA: Hundreds of truckers have driven their giant rigs into the Canadian capital Ottawa to protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates required to cross the United States border. The so-called “Freedom Convoy”, coming from east and west started out as a rally against a vaccine requirement …
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31-01-2022 SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 2,000 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have died on the battlefield, the United Nations says, and the group is sourcing key components for weapon systems from companies in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. In an annual report to the Security Council circulated on …
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31-01-2022 PYONGYANG: North Korea has conducted what is thought to be its biggest missile launch since 2017. The weapon was apparently an intermediate range missile which reached an altitude of 2,000km before coming down in the Sea of Japan. Japan, South Korea and the US have all condemned the launch, …
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30-01-2022 WELLINGTON/ KABUL: A pregnant New Zealand journalist denied re-entry to her home country to give birth said she has instead been offered refuge by the Afghan Taliban. “This just feels like such a breach of trust,” she said on Sunday (Jan 30) in an interview with Radio New Zealand. …
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30-01-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday on the first such visit, seeking to strengthen Gulf ties at a time of heightened regional tensions as world powers try to revive a nuclear deal with Iran. Sunday’s high-profile diplomatic trip comes more …
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30-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: As a part of its $2 billion defence deal of sophisticated weapons and intelligence gear, India had bought controversial Israeli-made Pegasus spyware in 2017, The New York Times reported. According to reports, India had reportedly signed the arms deal, the first by a prime minister, …
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30-01-2022 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said that Islamophobia is not acceptable at any cost and vowed to make his country safer for Muslims. Taking to Twitter, the Canadian premier wrote: “Islamophobia is unacceptable. Full stop. We need to put an end to this hate and make …
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30-01-2022 BALTIMORE: A “robotic surgeon,” developed at Johns Hopkins University in the USA, has set a new surgical record by performing four successful surgeries for the first time in the world. According to a study published in the journal Science Robotics, the robotic surgeon performed four abdominal operations on pigs …
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29-01-2022 BEIJING: A new type of coronavirus, NeoCov, has been detected in bats of South Africa. Scientists of Wuhan and Chinese researchers carried out research and studied that the virus may pose a threat to humans in the future if it mutates further, meida reported. NeoCov is closely related to …
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