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30-06-2022 DOHA/ BRUSSELS: Indirect talks in Qatar’s capital between Iran and the US on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal have “not yet” yielded the progress the EU had hoped for, the EU coordinator said late Wednesday. The indirect negotiations in Doha are an attempt to reboot long-running European Union-mediated talks …

30-06-2022 MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry says its troops have withdrawn from Snake Island, in the Black Sea, as a “gesture of goodwill” aimed at demonstrating Moscow supports efforts to restart food exports from Ukraine’s ports. Ukrainian officials hailed the announcement as a victory for their forces. Russian forces continue to …

30-06-2022 JERUSALEM: Palestinian Rabeha Rajabi did not think she would be holding her wedding celebrations in the rubble of her own home in occupied East Jerusalem, until Israeli authorities destroyed it. “Before any blow hit the house, it hit our hearts,” said Rajabi, speaking among the debris and donning a …

29-06-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report GAYAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: When a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan last week, Naqib lost his home and nearly his whole family. His parents and four siblings now lie buried on a hilltop overlooking the remote district of Gayan in hard-hit Paktika province. …

29-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in India’s capital New Delhi have arrested a Muslim journalist for allegedly hurting religious sentiment in what critics say is the latest example of declining press freedom in the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of India’s leading fact-checking website …

29-06-2022 PARIS: Moody’s ratings agency has confirmed that Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in a century, after bond holders did not receive $100 million in interest payments. The historic default follows a series of unprecedented Western sanctions that have increasingly isolated Russia from the global …

29-06-2022 ISTANBUL/ WASHINGTON: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would meet US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid for talks on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the bloc’s expansion into two Nordic states. Analysts believe the meeting could play a crucial …

29-06-2022 AQABA/ AMMAN: Amman: A poisonous gas leak in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba has killed at least 13 people and injured some 250, authorities said. Video carried by state-run media outlets showed a crane hoisting a large tanker from a truck and then dropping it on the deck …

28-06-2022 ELMAU CASTLE/ MUNICH: G7 leaders will condemn China’s “distorting” international trade practices in an end-of-summit statement on Tuesday, a senior US official said. “You’ll see leaders release a collective statement, which is unprecedented in the context of the G7, acknowledging the harms caused by China’s non-transparent, market distorting, industrial …

28-06-2022 DUBAI: Iran said on Monday that the revival of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers depends on Washington, amid expectations that talks to save the pact will resume soon after the top EU diplomat’s trip to the Islamic Republic. “The ball is in Washington’s court now,” Foreign Ministry …