21-05-2022 WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, reaching a four month-high, potentially hinting at some cooling in demand for labour amid tightening financial conditions but the labour market remains tight, with the report from the Labor Department on Thursday showing the …
Read More »Hindu women press for access to Indian mosque
21-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MUMBAI/ LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: A court case started by five Hindu women in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political constituency has become the latest battleground in India between the Hindu majority and minority Muslims over access to historically contested religious sites. The women, backed by an …
Read More »German school shooting hurts one person, children safe
20-05-2022 BERLIN: Shots were fired at a German school in the northern city of Bremerhaven on Thursday and one person, who was not a student, was wounded, police said, adding an armed person had been taken into custody. On its website, the Lloyd Gymnasium, which has around 1,150 students, posted …
Read More »Europe & America on alert after new monkeypox cases emerge
20-05-2022 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Health authorities are on alert for the spread of monkeypox, a rare viral disease first reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s, after new cases emerged in Europe, and the United States confirmed its first infection. Portugal said on Wednesday it had …
Read More »India’s power grid creaks under heatwave
20-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indians are cranking up air conditioning as they still work from home, while lights come back on in offices and factories with an end to COVID curbs, upending power demand patterns amid a heatwave and the country’s worst blackouts in years. India has …
Read More »Nasrallah hails victory of resistance in Lebanon election
20-05-2022 BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah hailed on Wednesday the heavy turnout in the parliamentary election, which was held on May 15, thanking the voters who elected the candidates of the Resistance and its allies. In a televised speech, Sayyed Nasrallah thanked specifically the Resistance martyrs’ families, the …
Read More »US to fly in baby formula on military contracted jets
20-05-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has invoked a Cold War-era law to give baby formula manufacturers first priority from suppliers amid major shortages across the country. Invoking the Defense Production Act, which was first implemented to support defence production during the Korean War, will require suppliers of formula manufacturers …
Read More »Afghan Taliban mediate ceasefire between Pakistan & TTP
By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ DOHA/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: World’s second most Hippocratic country known as Australia that is not only known as anti-Islam and anti-Muslim state but also avowed as an immature, immoral, irresponsible, uneducated, abnormal, insincere, illiterate, uncivilized, selfish, opportunist and backward but self-declared modern republic just …
Read More »Indian courts hear Hindu-relics-in-mosque pleas
19-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court’s order banning mass prayers at a 17th-century mosque in northern India after a survey team said it found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there. In an interim order on Tuesday, the top …
Read More »Canadians not preoccupied with constitutional change: PM Justin
19-05-2022 TORONTO: Canadians are not preoccupied with constitutional change, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters as Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla kicked off their Canadian tour in the eastern province of Newfoundland on Tuesday. “When I hear from Canadians about the things they’re preoccupied about, and the things …
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