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09-08-2022 GAZA: Only two hours separated the killing of Hamed Najim, 17, and three of his cousins at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and the announcement of a ceasefire with Israel. Israel and the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad declared a truce late on Sunday after …

09-08-2022 WASHINGTON/ FLORIDA: Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe, possibly connected to a US Justice Department investigation of Trump’s removal of official presidential records to the Florida resort. The unprecedented search of a former president’s home would mark …

08-08-2022 BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that Taiwan is not part of the United States but Chinese territory, in the latest diplomatic invective against U.S. policy since a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The United States has been engaging in …

08-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: Police in New Mexico and federal agencies were probing the murders of four Muslim men to determine if the killings, the latest of which happened on Friday evening, were linked while the state’s governor described them as targeted killings. Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina told reporters on …

08-08-2022 KYIV: Amnesty International apologised on Sunday for “distress and anger” caused by a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians which infuriated President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and triggered the resignation of its Kyiv office head. The rights group published the report on Thursday saying the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential …

08-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GAZA CITY/ ISLAMABAD: The death toll from violence in Gaza has risen to 30, including six children, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said Sunday, correcting a previous statement, as Israel continues to pond Gaza with air strikes. Meanwhile, the ministry had put the …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A bomb had exploded in a western district of the Afghanistan’s capital Kabul where members of the minority Shia community regularly meet. Daesh (also known as ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban) claimed responsibility for the attack, the group said on its Telegram channel. A …

07-08-2022 TEHRAN: The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that the Palestinians are “not alone” in their fight against Israel as they faced a second day of air strikes in Gaza. “Today, all the anti-Zionist jihadi capabilities are on the scene in a united formation working to liberate Jerusalem …

07-08-2022 LONDON: A London hospital on Saturday withdrew life support for 12-year-old British boy Archie Battersbee after his parents lost a long, emotive and divisive legal battle. Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, said her son passed away just over two hours after the artificial ventilation was stopped. “Such a beautiful little …

07-08-2022 DHAKA: Bangladesh raised fuel prices by around 50% on Saturday, a move that will trim the country’s subsidy burden but put more pressure on inflation that is already running above 7%. The South Asian country’s $416 billion economy has been one of the fastest-growing in the world for years. …