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15-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ ISLAMABAD: “White Terrorism” is spreading very fast in West especially in United States of America (USA) while neither the western countries nor USA could still understand and what is happening and what type of results would come in near …

15-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: The United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned the killing of Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank. The statement, a rare case of Security Council unity on an issue related to Israel, also called for “an immediate, …

15-05-2022 CAPE TOWN: Arc Minerals (ARCM) shares jumped 6.7% on Thursday after it announced an agreement under which Anglo American (AAL.L) would take majority control of the junior exploration firm’s Zambia copper-cobalt licences. Under the deal, which was first reported by media, Anglo will take 70% of a joint venture …

15-05-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister (PM) Scott Morrison promised on Saturday to be more empathetic if he wins re-election, as his government continues to trail the opposition Labor Party a week before a general election. Australians go to the voting booths on May 21, with recent polls showing …

15-05-2022 ISTANBUL: Amid a deepening economic crisis in Turkey, anger is growing towards the millions of refugees living in the country, with tensions threatening to spill over in recent weeks. Videos of large groups of foreign nationals hanging out in various places of Istanbul are being shared with rising frequency …

14-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: At least 27 people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi on Friday, emergency services said. “The fire has been put out now. The total number of dead is 27. Search operation is …

14-05-2022 DUBAI/ CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates’ federal supreme council elected on Saturday Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the new president of UAE, the state news agency (WAM) reported. Sheikh Mohamed was elected as the new president after his brother Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al …

14-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Al Jazeera NEW YORK/ LONDON/ PARIS/ JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: The killing of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank has created an uproar as commentators and social media users criticize Western media outlets for “whitewashed” reporting that appeared to shy away …

14-05-2022 BRASILIA: What would it take for you to step into a house filled with thousands of scorpions? That was debated on Reddit, where a video of seemingly thousands of the invertebrates gave chills up and down users’ spines in a thread that has been up voted over 30,000 times. …

14-05-2022 SAN FRANCISCO/ RIYADH: Saudi Aramco dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company as surging oil prices drove up shares and tech stocks slumped. The Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company, billed as the largest oil-producing company in the world, was valued at $2.42 trillion based on …