09-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ GUJARAT: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a record-breaking landslide victory in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat for a seventh straight term. The right-wing party is leading in 156 of the 182 seats in the state assembly, according to …
Read More »US warns of action if terrorists regroup in Afghanistan
09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US State Department on Wednesday warned of action if international terrorists regroup in Afghanistan, fearing the Taliban-ruled country may become a haven for militants again. The concerns were raised during a press briefing by the State Department …
Read More »100-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil found in Australia
09-12-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND: The complete head and body of an ancient marine reptile with “flippers like a turtle and long neck like a giraffe” has been uncovered in Queensland in what scientists say is a rare discovery. Paleontologists unearthed the complete fossil of the plesiosaur near the remote …
Read More »US State sues Chinese-owned TikTok over data
09-12-2022 INDIANAPOLIS: The popular social media app TikTok has been sued by the US state of Indiana. Its attorney general Todd Rokita has accused TikTok’s parent company ByteDance of violating the state’s consumer protections laws. The state alleges that the app fails to safeguard young people and privacy. However, TikTok …
Read More »German ‘crackpot’ movement turns radical & dangerous
09-12-2022 BERLIN: The Reichsburger were, for years, a source of national derision, dismissed as crackpots but they’re increasingly a source of concern for the security services who say they’re becoming more radical and more dangerous. Members don’t recognize the post-war German state and reject the authority of its government. Despite …
Read More »M23 rebels executed over 130 civilians in Congo
09-12-2022 KINSHASA: A UN investigation has found that at least 131 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo died in a November attack by the M23 rebel group. The UN report said the massacre took place in two villages, Kishishe and Bambo in the Rutsuhuru district of the eastern North …
Read More »Israeli army killed 4 more Palestinians during 24 hours
09-12-2022 JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH: The Israeli army has four three more Palestinians during a raid in Jenin, the latest people to die in a months-long Israeli campaign of near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian ministry of health identified the three killed on Thursday morning as Siqdi Zakarneh, 29, …
Read More »Stolen data of 600,000 Indians sold on bot markets so far
09-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN service providers NordVPN. Bot markets are …
Read More »Iran conducts first protest-related execution
09-12-2022 TEHRAN: Iran has announced what is the first publicly known execution of a person convicted for an alleged crime stemming from the country’s ongoing protests. The man executed was identified on Thursday by the official news website of the Iranian judiciary as Mohsen Shekari. He was convicted of “waging …
Read More »Xi meets MBS ahead of summit with Arab leaders
08-12-2022 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has received China’s President Xi Jinping in Riyadh as part of a visit expected to bolster political and economic ties. Xi was greeted by MBS on Thursday at Yamamah Palace, where the de facto ruler of the world’s biggest oil …
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