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06-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico’s largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said. Two members of the same mosque were shot dead in Albuquerque in the last …

05-08-2022 BAGHDAD: Tens of thousands of followers of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prayed on Friday at an iconic Baghdad military parade ground built by the late President Saddam Hussein, in yet another symbolic display of Sadr’s sway over much of the Iraqi people. Sadr has in the past week commanded …

05-08-2022 LONDON: In the salt field of the Utah desert, archaeologists accidentally found “ghost footprints”. They are given the name because the tracks appear only after it rains. As soon as the land dries out, the prints disappear. Scientists bumped into the prints in Early July while driving to an …

05-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world’s most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs. Rice has bucked the trend …

05-08-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart on Friday in Sochi, after brokering a grain shipment deal between Moscow and Kyiv and as a new Turkish military intervention in Syria remains a possibility. The summit with Vladimir Putin comes in the same week that a …

04-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Taliban said that the government had no information about al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri “entering and living” in capital city Kabul and warned the United States to never repeat an attack on Afghan soil. The United States killed Zawahiri with a …

04-08-2022 LONDON: Europe’s human rights court on Wednesday refused a request from the parents of a 12-year-old British boy with brain damage to intervene in a decision to remove life support. The verdict from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) follows unsuccessful appeals by 12-year-old Archie Battersbee’s parents Hollie …

04-08-2022 TAIPEI: China launched unprecedented live-fire military drills in six areas that ring Taiwan on Thursday, a day after a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as its sovereign territory. Soon after the scheduled start at 0400 GMT, China’s state …

04-08-2022 SEOUL: North Korea warned it will “never tolerate” the United States’ criticism of the isolated country’s nuclear programme, calling Washington the “kingpin of nuclear proliferation” and saying it would not allow any encroachment of its sovereign rights. North Korea has conducted missile tests at an unprecedented pace this year …

03-08-2022 BEIJING: China is planning to ramp up large-scale military drills around the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which began as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taipei for a visit that has angered Beijing. The unprecedented six days of military exercises began on Tuesday night after Pelosi landed on …