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17-08-2022 DAMASCUS/ ISTANBUL: Dozens of Syrian soldiers have been killed and injured in a Turkish air raid on military posts in the Aleppo countryside, Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying. Syrian armed forces responded to Tuesday’s attack and caused material and human losses in some …

17-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: The richest woman in the world is L’Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers with a whopping $74.6 billion to her name, according to CEO World Magazine. Following the French businesswoman is Alice Walton, who is the American heiress to the wealth of Walmart. She has a net worth …

17-08-2022 BANGKOK: Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people. The bombings and arson attacks happened after midnight and targeted convenience stores and a gas station across three provinces, lightly …

16-08-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ SIACHEN GLACIER: The body of an Indian soldier who went missing 38 years ago in the Himalayas has been discovered, BBC reported. In 1984, Chandrashekhar Harbola and 19 colleagues were caught in an avalanche while patrolling in the Siachen glacier along the India-Pakistan …

16-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: Police believe the son of the prime suspect in the killings of four Muslim men may have played a role in the murders, which have shaken the Muslim community in New Mexico’s largest city. Cellphone data shows Shaheen Syed, 21, was in the same “general area” of …

16-08-2022 TAIPEI: Taiwan accused China of exaggeration on Tuesday after the Chinese military published footage of the strategically located Penghu islands, where there is a major Taiwanese air base, saying it was not true Chinese forces had come near the islands. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has carried …

16-08-2022 LONDON: In a modern nuclear war, five billion people will perish, but the impact of global starvation induced by sunlight-blocking pollution will likely far outweigh the losses inflicted by the explosions, Bloomberg reported, quoting a study. Rutgers University scientists drew out the impacts of six potential nuclear conflict scenarios. …

16-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: To mark their protest, Kashmiri hackers hacked the website of the Indian Embassy in Egypt on the Independence Day of the country. Kashmir Freedom Fighters Hackers reportedly hacked the website as a sign of protest. The hackers placed Pakistan’s flag on the website. On the …

15-08-2022 HOUSTON/ WASHINGTON: Rick LaBrode has worked at NASA for 37 years, but he says the American quest to return to the Moon is by far the crowning moment of his career. LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month, the first …

15-08-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ NEW DELHI: The Afghan foreign ministry has demanded the Indian government complete unfinished developmental projects in Afghanistan, Ariana News reported, as the country desperately seeks to stabilise the socio-economic situation. In a statement issued last Saturday, the foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) …