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09-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of the bloody assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation. Japan’s longest serving modern leader was gunned down while …

09-07-2022 BEIJING/ TEHRAN: Beijing firmly rejected illegal, unilateral US sanctions on other sovereign countries, censuring the US blacklisting of an alleged network of companies brokering the sale of Iranian oil products and petrochemicals. Stating that it strongly opposes Washington’s “illegal” and “unjustifiable” sanctions as well as its so-called maximum pressure …

09-07-2022 MOSCOW: Ukraine has urged its allies to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of consequences for their reprisals over its invasion. Signaling that the Kremlin was in no mood for …

09-07-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party …

08-07-2022 MAKKAH: Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim on Friday delivered the Hajj sermon with the status of khateeb (speaker) of Hajj at Masjid-e-Nimrah, as Muslims from across the world gathered in Makkah to offer the pilgrimage which is one of the key obligations of Islam. Huge crowds of Muslim pilgrims …

08-07-2022 BEIJING/ LONDON/ WASHINGTON: China has accused the United States of being “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development”, in response to accusations by the heads of security services in Washington and London that Chinese spying is a global threat and China is threatening international order. Chinese Foreign …

08-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara, according to officials. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters on Friday that he did not know Abe’s condition, but the NHK broadcaster, citing the local fire …

08-07-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: G20 foreign ministers head to a joint summit on Friday that will put some of the staunchest critics of Russia invasion of Ukraine in the same room as Moscow’s top diplomat, in the first such meeting since the war started in February. The buildup to the …

08-07-2022 SOUL: In a strange incident reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, the sky turned green while the winds were reportedly 99mph. Daily Mail reported that Sioux Falls residents felt as if they were present in an episode of the popular Netflix show, “Stranger Things” as the sky …

07-07-2022 LONDON: United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned Thursday, bringing an acrimonious end to a nearly three-year premiership that has been beset by controversy and scandal. Speaking outside Downing Street, Johnson said the process for choosing the new leader of the Conservative Party should begin now, with a …