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12-07-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indians are celebrating Sirisha Bandla’s flight to the edge of space on billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane. Bandla is the second woman born in India to go to space after Kalpana Chawla who died when the Columbia Space Shuttle crashed at re-entry …

12-07-2021 LONDON: Italy won the European Championship for the first time since 1968 as goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved two England penalties en route to a 3-2 shoot-out win. Both sides had fought out a 1-1 extra-time draw at a raucous Wembley on Sunday. The giant keeper saved from Jadon Sancho …

11-07-2021 Bureau Report + Geo News NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: As Taliban fighters continue to gain control amid the withdrawal of international forces, India said Sunday it had temporarily brought back officials from its consulate in Kandahar, a major city in southern Afghanistan. “Due to intense fighting near Kandahar …

11-07-2021 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australia’s defence minister on Sunday confirmed the end of his country’s involvement in the 20-year Afghanistan war, saying the troops’ withdrawal had taken place “in recent weeks”. Australia announced in April that it would remove its remaining troops by September in line with the US decision …

11-07-2021 LONDON: The Queen and Boris Johnson have led messages of support to the England team ahead of the Euro 2020 final. The monarch recalled presenting the World Cup trophy to Bobby Moore in 1966 as she praised the current team’s “spirit, commitment and pride with which you have conducted …

11-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan authorities prepared Saturday to try to retake a key border crossing seized by the Taliban in a sweeping offensive that the group claim has helped capture a vast swath of the violence-wracked nation. As US troops continued their …

11-07-2021 CALIFORNIA: Firefighters battled a surging wildfire in Northern California under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the Western United States this weekend, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas. California’s Death Valley National Park, about 177km (110 miles) west of Las Vegas in the neighboring …

11-07-2021 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has been declared the winner of last month’s national election in a landslide, assuring a second five-year term for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The June 21 election marked the first time Abiy faced voters since being appointed prime minister in 2018 following several …

10-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ MOSCOW/ ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban on Friday claimed that 85% of Afghanistan’s territory was under their control as the group continued its offensive amid a US military withdrawal. At a press conference in Moscow, Taliban negotiator Shahabuddin Delawar said that …

10-07-2021 TORONTO: “All of us should feel the pain of the Indigenous community here … because we have seen what imperialism does to our countries back home,” Aarij Anwer, Imam of the London Muslim Mosque in Ontario, said during Friday’s prayer, live streamed on social media. On Friday, Anwer was …