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09-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: India will continue buying Russian oil as it is advantageous for the country, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said during his first visit to Russia since it invaded Ukraine, in a move counter to Western efforts to cripple Russia’s economy with sanctions. Jaishankar met …

09-11-2022 MONTREAL: Global air travel continued its recovery from the pandemic in September as passenger traffic surged 57 percent compared with 2021, trade association figures have shown. Passenger traffic reached 74 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September as people rushed back to travel following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, data …

09-11-2022 LOURDES: Eleven former or serving French bishops have been accused of sexual violence, including a cardinal who has confessed to assaulting a minor more than three decades ago, a senior church body announced Monday. Jean-Pierre Ricard, a long-standing bishop of Bordeaux who was made a cardinal by Pope Francis …

09-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The life of jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah is in great danger, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, renewing a call for Egypt to immediately release him. “I urge the Egyptian government to immediately release Abd el-Fattah from prison and provide …

09-11-2022 SHARM EL-SHEIKH: More than 25 countries at the COP27 climate talks on Monday launched a group they said would ensure they hold each other accountable for a pledge to end deforestation by 2030, and announced billions of dollars to finance their efforts. The first meeting of the Forest and …

09-11-2022 KYIV: Ukraine has accused Russia of looting empty homes in the southern city of Kherson and occupying them with troops in civilian clothes to prepare for street fighting ahead against Kyiv’s army. In recent days, Russia has ordered civilians out of Kherson in anticipation of a Ukrainian assault to …

09-11-2022 PYONGYANG: North Korea has dismissed claims by the United States that it is covertly shipping weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine, saying it had never sold arms to Moscow and had no plans to do so. Tuesday’s statement on the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) comes …

08-11-2022 TEHRAN: The Intelligence Ministry of Iran said all of the individuals that had a role in the recent fatal shooting attack on a religious site in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz have been arrested, adding that they have Azerbaijani, Tajik and Afghan nationalities. In a statement on Monday, the …

08-11-2022 YONKERS/ UNITED STATES: President Joe Biden pulled out the stops Sunday to mobilize US voters in defence of democracy, hoping to counter a Republican “red wave” in this week’s midterms that could help set Donald Trump on a course back to the White House. “If you all show up …

08-11-2022 TORONTO/ LONDON: Despite vocal protest by Narendra Modi’s government and fierce opposition from Canadian Hindutva groups, in a massive turn out more than 75,000 Canadian Sikhs voted in Khalistan Referendum Phase II in Mississauga, for the secession of Punjab from India to create an independent Sikh homeland. While the …