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24-04-2024 BERLIN: Prosecutors have arrested a man working for a far-right politician on suspicion of spying for China. They have identified the man as Jian G, 43, named by German media as an assistant to AfD MEP and European election candidate Maximilian Krah. Prosecutors say he was arrested in the …

24-04-2024 NEW YORK: Protests over the war in Gaza have taken hold at a handful of elite US universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. Police moved to break up an encampment at New York University (NYU) on Monday night, making a number of arrests. Dozens of students were arrested …

24-04-2024 CANBERRA: Australia’s leader has called Elon Musk an “arrogant billionaire” in an escalating feud over X’s reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing. On Monday, an Australian court ordered Musk’s social media firm, formerly called Twitter to hide videos of last week’s attack in Sydney. X previously said …

23-04-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to increase the volume of bilateral trade to $10 billion in the next five years following the signing of as many as eight agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in different areas. Speaking after …

23-04-2024 NEW YORK: Columbia University students will attend classes virtually on Monday as school officials hope to deescalate tensions on the New York City campus after pro-Palestinian demonstrations led to mass arrests last week. In a statement on Monday, Columbia President Nemat Minouche Shafik said the university was canceling in-person …

23-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing accusations of spreading hatred against Muslims after controversial comments on Sunday wherein he equated the community to “infiltrators” and peddled anti-Muslim tropes in the middle of the country’s general elections. Speaking at a crowded rally in …

23-04-2024 BERLIN: Three German citizens were arrested on Monday after Germany’s federal prosecutor alleged they were involved in transferring research on technologically advanced machine parts for ship engines to China’s secret service. The suspects, whose names were listed as Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R., due to German privacy …

23-04-2024 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. He acknowledged in a letter that his intelligence directorate …

23-04-2024 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambitious $500 billion Neom linear city project “The Line”, which was originally planned to be stretched for 170 kilometres, is set to be scaled down by 98.6%, according to The Cradle. Bloomberg reported that instead of the original plan to cover an area of 170 kilometres …

23-04-2024 LONDON: A British-born Pakistani Dr Saqib Iqbal Qureshi has published a book with focus on Muslim voices in the West being stifled and punished for their advocacy of Palestinian rights to life. Dr Qureshi’s booked titled “Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia” is published at …