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05-04-2022 NEW YORK: In an unprecedented event, over 1,000 Muslims broke their fasts and offered congregational Taraweeh prayers at New York City’s Times Square, marking the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan, according to CBS News. Times Square is a major commercial area and tourist destination in midtown Manhattan …

04-04-2022 COLOMBO: Police in Sri Lanka have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse student-led protests near the country’s second-biggest city, Kandy, amid growing calls for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation over an economic crisis that has resulted in shortages of fuel, food and other essentials. Hundreds of students defied …

04-04-2022 BUCHA/ KYIV/ MOSCOW: Ukraine on Sunday accused Russian forces of carrying out a “massacre” in the town of Bucha, while Western nations reacted to images of dead bodies there with calls for new sanctions against Moscow. Russia’s defence ministry denied the Ukrainian allegations, saying footage and photographs showing bodies …

04-04-2022 Bureau Report PATNA/ NEW DELHI: An Indian software engineer hacked an airline’s website to find his lost luggage when the airline’s customer care service failed to assist him effectively. Nandan Kumar was travelling between Indian cities, Patna and Bangalore on March 27, 2022, when his luggage got exchanged with …

04-04-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Protesters have been arrested after climbing aboard a fuel tanker outside the Exxon Mobil terminal in inner Melbourne. The Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Yarraville was part of a week long campaign to draw attention to climate change. A truckie got caught up in the early morning …

03-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens Afghans were wounded in an explosion at Sarai Shahzada, a crowded market of money exchangers in Kabul, on Sunday morning, the Ministry of Interior said. The blast was due to a hand grenade thrown into the market by a person who planned …

03-04-2022 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA: At least six people have been killed, and nine wounded, in a shooting in downtown Sacramento, California in the US, local police said. “Please avoid the area as a large police presence will remain and the scene remains active,” the Sacramento Police Department said on Sunday on …

03-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The deputy speaker declared the motion for a no-confidence vote against Khan unconstitutional and part of a plot by ‘foreign powers’ to interfere in Pakistan’s democracy. …

03-04-2022 COLOMBO: Police and the military patrolled Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo as shops slowly opened on Saturday, the first day after a state of emergency was declared to tackle growing unrest amid an unprecedented economic crisis. In an order late on Friday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked tough laws that …

03-04-2022 BAMAKO: Mali’s army says it has killed 203 combatants in an operation in the centre of the Sahel state, with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country saying it has heard reports of civilian deaths, raising human rights concerns. The army said on Friday that the military operation …