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08-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ RIYADH: Pakistan’s new army chief has held talks with top Saudi officials, including the defence minister, on his first official trip to the Gulf kingdom as the South Asian country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. General Syed Asim Munir, who …

08-01-2023 BOGOTA: The bodies of two young men have been found in the undercarriage of an Avianca plane during maintenance in Colombian capital Bogota, according to the airline and the attorney general’s office of Colombia. The bodies were discovered by airline personnel after the plane from Santiago, Chile, landed in …

07-01-2023 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: A six-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. No students were injured in the shooting on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher, a woman …

07-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON: A senior Taliban official on Friday slammed Prince Harry after the royal disclosed that he killed 25 people on military duty in Afghanistan and said it was like removing “chess pieces” from aboard. In his memoir to be …

07-01-2023 MOSCOW: A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts. Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear …

07-01-2023 MEXICO CITY: 19 suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in the northern state of Sinaloa, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday. Mexican security forces captured Guzman, the 32-year-old son …

07-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary said Thursday a senior official has ordered an inquiry into allegations denied by the authorities of rape and sexual assault of inmates in the country’s jails. International media reports last month alleged widespread sexual assaults of Iranians arrested during nationwide protests sparked by the death in …

07-01-2023 ROME: Italian authorities have found the body of an 18-year-old woman who went missing more than a year ago after refusing to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, a lawyer for a rights group said on Wednesday. Pakistan-origin Saman Abbas has been identified by dental records after human …

07-01-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ ADELAIDE: Novak Djokovic received a positive welcome back to Australia as he made a rare doubles appearances at the Adelaide International. The Serb was deported prior to the 2022 Australian Open because of his Covid-19 vaccination status. Djokovic’s three-year visa ban was overturned in November, allowing …

07-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS: United Nation’s Security Council members voiced concern and stressed the need to maintain the status quo at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, but did not commit to any action days after Israel’s new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made a controversial visit to the site, …