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30-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Senior International Cricket Council (ICC) officials are set to travel to Pakistan to secure the country’s participation in this year’s 50-over World Cup in India which has been in doubt for political reasons. Bilateral cricket has been a casualty of the soured relations between …

30-05-2023 BRUSSELS: NATO peacekeeping soldiers have formed security cordons around four town halls in Kosovo to keep back Serbs protesting against ethnic Albanian mayors taking office in a Serb-majority area after elections they boycotted. In Zvecan, one of the towns in north Kosovo, state police staffed entirely by ethnic Albanians …

30-05-2023 BEIJING/ SHANGHAI: For the first time in 100 years, China’s financial capital Shanghai has recorded Monday as its hottest day, according to the city’s meteorological service, breaking the earlier records of high temperature by a full degree, reported AFP. According to a post on the weather service’s official Weibo …

30-05-2023 ABUJA: Bola Tinubu, the former Lagos governor who is credited with helping the city-state increase its revenue base, has been sworn in as Nigeria’s new president. He took the oath of office from Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola in a colorful ceremony attended by local and foreign dignitaries on Monday …

30-05-2023 RIYADH: Five months after he shocked the football world by signing for Al Nassr, Cristiano Ronaldo’s first season in Saudi Arabia is set to end with mixed results. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner is not going to add to the seven league titles won in England, Spain and Italy …

30-05-2023 ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarized Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power. His challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, called it “the most unfair election in years” but did …

30-05-2023 CHICAGO: Chicago city authorities have said that at least nine people have been killed in city-wide mass shooting incidents with 32 people injured over the Memorial Day weekend with the first life claimed before 1am Saturday in South Seeley, according to several US media outlets. Police found a 33-year-old …

29-05-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated India’s new parliament building amid protests and boycotts. Most opposition parties did not participate, saying they wanted the president instead of Modi to open the building. During the ceremony, some of India’s top wrestlers were detained when they tried …

29-05-2023 BEIJING: China’s first domestically produced passenger jet took off on its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation’s decades-long effort to compete with western rivals in the air. Beijing hopes the C919 commercial jetliner will challenge foreign models like the Boeing 737 MAX and the …

29-05-2023 MOSCOW: Russia has unleashed two waves of air attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing at least one person and wounding another, according to officials. Kyiv’s air defence systems downed at least 40 drones moving towards the city in the early hours of Sunday, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, …