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01-02-2024 TEHRAN: Iran summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest against the “baseless accusations” and sanctions by London. “Following the continuation of the British regime’s accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Simon Shercliff, the British ambassador in Tehran, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs … and …

01-02-2024 ADDIS ABABA: On January 1, a controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. Purportedly, this agreement grants landlocked Ethiopia a 20km piece of coastal land for establishing a naval base and …

01-02-2024 KUALA LUMPUR: The last time a Sultan from the state of Johor was on the throne of Malaysia in the late 1980s, the country was embroiled in a constitutional crisis as then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sought to clip the wings of the judiciary. Now, as the current Johor Sultan …

31-01-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets. The special court set …

31-01-2024 BEIRUT/ GAZA CITY: Hamas’s political chief reviews new truce proposal saying “priority is to stop the brutal aggression against Gaza and complete withdrawal of occupation forces”. Israeli commandos disguised as medical staff and civilians gun down three men in Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital in the occupied West Bank, alleging …

31-01-2024 NEW YORK: Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his Neuralink Company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time. Initial results detected promising neuron spikes or nerve impulses and the patient is recovering well, he said. The company’s goal is to connect …

31-01-2024 NEW DELHI: Just over a week ago, India’s federal home minister Amit Shah announced a plan to fence the open border with neighboring Myanmar. He said India would secure the rugged 1,643km (1,020-mile) boundary the same way in which “we have fenced the country’s border with Bangladesh”, which is …

31-01-2024 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: An Australian MP has accused a media outlet of doctoring an image to enlarge her breasts and expose her midriff. A photo of Georgie Purcell appeared in a Nine News Melbourne bulletin on Monday after she criticized a Victorian government decision to allow duck hunting to …

31-01-2024 WASHINGTON: The death of three US servicemen and injuring of many others, turns up the heat in an already febrile region and ratchets up the pressure on the US commander-in-chief, President Joe Biden. This marks the first time American troops have been killed by enemy fire since the Israel-Gaza …

30-01-2024 TOKYO: After the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) re-established contact with its Moon lander on Sunday night, the craft started to study its surroundings in detail and transmit new images to Earth. The lander is carrying out analysis that could inform future, much longer missions to the Moon. One …