09-07-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party …
Read More »08-07-2022 MAKKAH: Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim on Friday delivered the Hajj sermon with the status of khateeb (speaker) of Hajj at Masjid-e-Nimrah, as Muslims from across the world gathered in Makkah to offer the pilgrimage which is one of the key obligations of Islam. Huge crowds of Muslim pilgrims …
Read More »China blasts America & British agencies over spying claims
08-07-2022 BEIJING/ LONDON/ WASHINGTON: China has accused the United States of being “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development”, in response to accusations by the heads of security services in Washington and London that Chinese spying is a global threat and China is threatening international order. Chinese Foreign …
Read More »Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shot in Nara
08-07-2022 NARA/ TOKYO: Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara, according to officials. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters on Friday that he did not know Abe’s condition, but the NHK broadcaster, citing the local fire …
Read More »War looms large over G20 event as Russia meets rivals in Bali
08-07-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: G20 foreign ministers head to a joint summit on Friday that will put some of the staunchest critics of Russia invasion of Ukraine in the same room as Moscow’s top diplomat, in the first such meeting since the war started in February. The buildup to the …
Read More »Soul-stirring green sky reminds people of ‘Stranger Things’
08-07-2022 SOUL: In a strange incident reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, the sky turned green while the winds were reportedly 99mph. Daily Mail reported that Sioux Falls residents felt as if they were present in an episode of the popular Netflix show, “Stranger Things” as the sky …
Read More »UK PM resigns after mutiny in Labour Party
07-07-2022 LONDON: United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned Thursday, bringing an acrimonious end to a nearly three-year premiership that has been beset by controversy and scandal. Speaking outside Downing Street, Johnson said the process for choosing the new leader of the Conservative Party should begin now, with a …
Read More »Journalist known for criticizing army arrested in Pakistan
07-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: A very famous senior journalist and anchor person, Imran Riaz Khan, who has more than three million subscribers on YouTube, was arrested on Tuesday on the outskirts of Islamabad in connection with a treason case. Khan had questioned the mighty Pakistan …
Read More »Boris Johnson clings on despite clamour for his resignation
07-07-2022 LONDON: A group of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers were set to tell him to resign as British prime minister on Wednesday, media reports said after he insisted he would not quit in the face of a mounting rebellion in his party. With a BBC report that a group of …
Read More »‘Personal information of millions of Chinese citizens hacked’
07-07-2022 SHANGHAI: A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous internet user, identified as “ChinaDan”, posted on the hacker …
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