03-11-2022 DOHA: Qatar authorities said Wednesday they have seized 144 counterfeit World Cup trophies, the latest raid on fakes hitting the market ahead of the football tournament that starts later this month. The interior ministry said officers launched an operation “acting on a piece of information about a website that …
Read More »Iranian police launch probe after video shows man’s killing
03-11-2022 TEHRAN: Police in Iran have launched an investigation after a video showed riot police repeatedly kicking and then shooting a man. The two-minute clip was posted on social media on Tuesday, in the seventh week of the protests that erupted across Iran after the death of a young woman …
Read More »‘Killings of Somalia’s brave journalists must stop’
03-11-2022 MOGADISHU: Somalia can lay claim through no choice of its own people to being the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa. Data collected by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the testimonies of local journalists demonstrate that media rights are flagrantly violated on a daily basis. Threats …
Read More »President Xi assures Pakistan’s Sharif of China’s support
03-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: President Xi Jinping has said China will continue to support Pakistan to help it stabilise its economy, as he hosted Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for talks. The leaders met at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Wednesday, the last day of …
Read More »‘Saudis tell US that Iran may attack the kingdom’
03-11-2022 RIYADH/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States has responded to reports of threats from Iran against Saudi Arabia by saying it is concerned and will not hesitate to respond if necessary. “We are concerned about the threat picture, and we remain in constant contact through military and intelligence channels with …
Read More »‘Pelosi attack suspect told police he was on ‘suicide mission’
03-11-2022 SAN FRANCISCO: The man charged with breaking into US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a “suicide mission” and had planned to target more politicians, according to court documents prosecutors filed on Tuesday. Prosecutors’ motion seeking to …
Read More »Modi seeks detailed inquiry as India bridge toll rises to 135
02-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MORBI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said lessons must be learned as he visited the site of a bridge collapse that killed 135 people and met some of the injured in hospital on Tuesday. Army, navy and national disaster response force teams continued their search …
Read More »US woman sentenced to 20 years for leading ISIL unit
02-11-2022 WASHINGTON/ VIRGINIA: A US judge has sentenced a Kansas woman who led an all-female ISIL (ISIS) battalion in Syria to the maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, after Allison Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to “terrorism” charges earlier this year. During a hearing in federal court in northern Virginia on …
Read More »Iran’s journalists demand release of jailed colleagues
02-11-2022 TEHRAN: More than 300 Iranian journalists on Sunday called for the release of colleagues who were detained amid nationwide demonstrations. They signed a statement published in the Iranian Etemad and other newspapers in which they accused authorities of arresting members of the press and “stripping them of their civil …
Read More »Tensions grow b/w DRC & Rwanda as rebels gain ground
02-11-2022 KINSHASA/ KIGALI: The African Union (AU) on Sunday called for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after Congolese rebels captured strategic terrain in the east of the country. The March 23 Movement, widely known as M23, tightened its grip on several territories by seizing the towns …
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