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11-12-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s ruling party on Friday submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament enshrining women’s right to wear headscarves at work and in daily life, reviving a hugely divisive issue in the officially secular state. The highly-politicized decision by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party comes six months before the …

10-12-2022 PHILADELPHIA: Police have identified a young boy found dead in a box in the city of Philadelphia more than 60 years ago. The child, known to generations as the “Boy in the box”, has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Police say DNA technology and detective work helped them …

10-12-2022 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary “the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much.” Reciting the Angelus prayer at midday Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis noted the …

10-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ BLACKBURN: A group of British Muslim youth who were charged over anti-Semitism accusations and then the case dropped by the prosecution have accused the police of mistreating them like “terrorists” at the time of the arrest and afterwards. Adil Mota, Mohammed Hanif, Asif …

10-12-2022 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the Gulf region has raised US security concerns. King Salman signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership agreement” …

10-12-2022 NEW YORK: Cleaners at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco have told the BBC they were sacked without severance pay. One of them told the BBC a member of Elon Musk’s team had said their jobs would be replaced by robots. A California state senator said Musk was treating the …

10-12-2022 TOKYO/ LONDON: Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defence collaboration beyond the United States since World War Two. The deal, which Reuters reported in July, aims to put an advanced …

10-12-2022 LONDON: One day after Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) reported on Bangladesh’s notorious Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) receiving cybersecurity and surveillance training in the UK, it can reveal that nine of its members also received goods and training in at least two European Union countries in 2022. The RAB …

10-12-2022 MOSCOW: Russian firefighters have put out a massive blaze that engulfed one of the largest shopping centres in a suburb of the capital, Moscow, leading to the collapse of part of the structure and one death. The fire early on Friday spread over an area of about 7,000 square …

09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban flogged 27 Afghans, including women, in front of a large crowd Thursday, a day after publicly executing a convicted murderer for the first time since they returned to power last year. Their chief spokesman also pushed back …