26-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Three major Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have halted work in Afghanistan after women were banned from working for them by the Taliban. In a joint statement, Care International, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Save the Children said they would be unable …
Read More »Iranian rapper wins appeal against protests-linked death sentence
26-12-2022 TEHRAN: An Iranian rapper has won an appeal against his death sentence in relation to the country’s ongoing protests, while another man’s bid against a similar sentence was rejected. The Iranian judiciary said on Saturday the Supreme Court had accepted the appeal of Saman Seyyedi, an ethnic Kurd rapper …
Read More »Powerful winter storm claims dozens lives across America
26-12-2022 NEW YORK: More than 315,000 homes and businesses nationwide were without power Christmas Eve, thanks to an Arctic blast and winter storm that tore down power lines with destructive winds and heavy snow and dipped temperatures dangerously low conditions killing at least 22 people. As bone-chilling air continues to …
Read More »China Health Commission stops publishing daily COVID figures
26-12-2022 BEIJING: China’s National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data on Sunday, amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing of tough restrictions. “Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference …
Read More »Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine: Putin
26-12-2022 MOSCOW: Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia’s Feb 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most deadly conflict …
Read More »Pope urges end to ‘senseless’ Ukraine war in Christmas message
25-12-2022 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, in his traditional Christmas message, has appealed for an end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine and other conflicts, calling for an end to the use of food as a weapon of war. Delivering the 10th Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the …
Read More »Rahul Gandhi’s cross-India march reaches Delhi
25-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A cross-country march led by Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has reached the capital New Delhi after passing through eight states, hoping to regain some of the popularity it lost to the ruling Hindu nationalist party. Tens of thousands of people have joined Gandhi’s “Unite …
Read More »Deadly US storm disrupts Christmas plans
25-12-2022 NEW YORK/ OTTAWA: A battering winter storm has left 1.7 million homes and businesses without power across the United States, as millions of people worry how the prospect of further outages will affect holiday and travel plans. More than 200 million people were under weather warnings on Saturday, as …
Read More »Taliban use water cannon on women opposing university ban
25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university. Video on social media shows women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to …
Read More »‘Burkina Faso has no grounds to expel envoy’
25-12-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: The United Nations has said Burkina Faso had no grounds for ordering senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country and that the doctrine of “persona non grata” could not be applied to her. Burkina Faso’s military government on Friday put out a statement instructing Manzi, an …
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