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29-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in India’s capital Delhi have told the Supreme Court that they will register a case against the chief of the country’s wrestling federation. The court was hearing a petition by top wrestlers against Brij Bhushan Singh over allegations of sexual abuse by several female …

29-04-2023 MANILA/ BEIJING: A Chinese Coast Guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel in the South China Sea, causing a near collision in waters where Beijing’s vast claims have alarmed the US and its allies. Media witnessed the tense encounter near Second Thomas Shoal in the remote Spratly archipelago last …

29-04-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party and its leftist allies have asked their voters to back President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival in the May 14 presidential election. Friday’s announcement pushes one of Turkey’s largest voting blocs behind opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the People’s Republican Party, and further …

29-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Mike Pence testified before the grand jury on Thursday in the case by the special counsel against former US president Donald Trump for sabotaging the election results of 2020 and the Capitol Hill incident of January 6, NBC reported citing sources. Pence’s testimony holds …

28-04-2023 By Syed Najaf Ali Shoukat Bottom Line In early March 2023, China mediated an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to normalize diplomatic relations. While normalization between the two Middle Eastern rivals was in the works for some time, that Beijing brokered the detente sent geopolitical shockwaves around the …

28-04-2023 WASHINGTON: US prosecutors say Jack Teixeira, the airman charged with leaking secret military information, may still have access to a trove of classified files. They said he should remain in jail pre-trial as he could cause “extraordinary” damage to national security. Prosecutors also said the 21-year-old had a history …

28-04-2023 BANGKOK: Thai police say they have arrested a woman suspected of killing 12 of her friends and acquaintances by poisoning them with cyanide. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn was arrested in Bangkok on Tuesday following recent inquiries into a friend’s death. The victim’s family had raised suspicions after she died on a …

28-04-2023 A history textbook for Chinese schoolchildren mentioning the country’s COVID pandemic response for the first time has sparked discussion online. Some are questioning whether the book’s short description of the country’s fight against COVID is truthful. Chinese Communist Party leaders declared a “decisive victory” over the virus earlier this …

28-04-2023 TEHRAN:  powerful Iranian cleric, a member of the Assembly of Experts that selects the country’s supreme leader, has been martyred in an armed attack, officials said. “Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was martyred this morning in an armed attack… the assailant was also arrested and is now being investigated,” IRNA …

28-04-2023 JERUSALEM: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s congratulatory message on Israel’s 75th year of independence has been met with a swift backlash in Palestine. The Palestinian Authority (PA) called von der Leyen’s message “inappropriate, false and discriminatory” in a statement on Wednesday. The PA said her remark about …