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23-06-2022 RIYADH: When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic. Walking into a Riyadh salon, she ordered the hairdresser to chop her long, wavy locks all …

23-06-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament has cancelled its remaining sittings for the week to save fuel, officials said Thursday, with a disastrous economic crisis rapidly depleting the island nation’s already scarce petrol supplies. A critical shortage of foreign currency has left importers unable to finance purchases of food, oil and …

22-06-2022 LONDON: Rising food prices pushed the United Kingdom’s consumer price inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1 percent last month, the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries. Historical records from the Office for National Statistics show May’s inflation was the highest since March 1982 and worse …

22-06-2022 KYIV: A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier accompanying him who were killed in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appear to have been “coldly executed” by Russian troops, Reporters Without Borders has concluded following an investigation into the killings. The bodies of Maks Levin and serviceman Oleksiy …

22-06-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ VATICAN CITY: A strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing almost 1,000 people, according to the country’s ruling Taliban regime. Mawlawi Sharafudin Muslim, the Taliban government’s Deputy Minister for Disaster Management, told journalists at a news conference in …

22-06-2022 ANKARA/ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler will on Wednesday take another step towards breaking his international isolation by paying his first visit to Turkey since the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. The talks in Ankara between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …

21-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel is building a US-sponsored regional air defence alliance, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, adding that the apparatus has already foiled attempted Iranian attacks and could be boosted by President Joe Biden’s visit next month. Drawing closer in recent years to US-aligned Arab states which …

21-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ UNITED NATIONS/ ISLAMABAD: The UN mission to Afghanistan reported scores of people were killed and wounded in an attack on a busy market in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, although Taliban officials said they could only confirm that 10 people had been wounded. “UNAMA …

21-06-2022 MIYAZAKI/ TOKYO: Old-fashioned love letters may be the alternative to modern online dating methods, says one Japanese city whose unusual matchmaking scheme has been a surprising success. Singles in southern Japan’s Miyazaki are being encouraged to put pen to paper in a low-tech search for their soul-mate, part of …

20-06-2022 BERLIN: Germany’s economy minister says the country will limit the use of natural gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a cut in supplies from Russia. The move comes after Russia sharply reduced flows of natural gas in its pipelines to Western Europe, driving up …