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01-12-2022 AUCKLAND: The leaders of New Zealand and Finland have dismissed a journalist’s suggestion that they arranged a meeting because they are “similar in age”. At a press conference in Auckland, Finland’s Ms Sanna Marin and New Zealand’s Ms Jacinda Ardern said they met because they are prime ministers, not …

01-12-2022 BUCHAREST: NATO foreign ministers will on Wednesday seek to reassure fragile countries in Russia’s neighborhood that they fear could be destabilized by Russia as the conflict in Ukraine drags on, squeezing energy supplies and pushing up prices. “The reason we are having this gathering is a signal from us …

30-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ AYBAK/ ISLAMABAD: As many as 16 Shia studentsamong 21 civilians have been killed after a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban regime has said. The blast took place in Aybak in the Samangan province and left …

30-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ QUETTA: A suicide bomb blast has struck a police vehicle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least one police officer and two civilians and wounding dozens, according to police. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as the …

30-11-2022 TEHRAN: Deploring outsiders for upsetting security and creating problems in the region, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the withdrawal of foreign forces will be conducive to regional security. Speaking at a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Tehran on Tuesday, the Iranian president said, …

30-11-2022 OTTAWA: Genealogical testing has led to an arrest in the 1983 murders of two women in Toronto, one of whom was the daughter of a founder of gold mining giant Barrick Gold, police said Monday. Erin Gilmour, 22, and Susan Tice, 45, were found stabbed to death four months …

30-11-2022 LONDON/ BEIJING: The United Kingdom has summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering protests against Beijing’s zero-COVID-19 policy. Zheng Zeguang was called in to the foreign office on Tuesday after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in …

30-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: In the latest case of Islamophobia in India, a professor at Bengaluru’s Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) from the coastal region of Karnataka allegedly called a Muslim student a “terrorist” in a viral video on the internet. The student, however, did not take the …

30-11-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. The “cruelest” troops are generally Chechens and Buryats, Pope Francis told a US magazine. He also labelled the Holodomor famine …

30-11-2022 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Four more Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli forces in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials say. Two were brothers who were shot dead as clashes broke out with Israeli troops during an operation near Ramallah. The third was martyred …