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13-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW YORK/ HOUSTON/ MELBOURNE: An investigation found hundreds of children died in at least 53 separate burial sites at federal Native American boarding schools across the US, as the number is expected to rise to tens of thousands. The initial findings of the …

13-05-2022 COLOMBO: Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns during a brief relaxation in curfew, imposed after the Prime Minister quit and went into hiding and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa warned of anarchy. The island nation off India’s southern tip, which …

13-05-2022 SHANGHAI/ BEIJING: Beijing denied it was heading for lockdown as panic buying gripped the capital on Thursday, while Shanghai combed the city for lingering COVID-19 cases in the hope of clearing the way to escape from weeks of painful restrictions. Daily cases in Beijing have remained in the dozens, …

13-05-2022 WASHINGTON: Scientists are set to announce on Thursday what they call a “groundbreaking” Milky Way discovery in what could be the release of an image of the supermassive black hole lurking at our galaxy’s center and devouring any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull. The researchers are part …

12-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the government from using a colonial-era sedition law that critics say is often used to stifle dissent, pending a review. The 152-year-old law, which the British colonial government used against Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders of a campaign for …

12-05-2022 RAMALLAH/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: A state service for the slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is expected to begin shortly in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, a day after she was martyred by Israeli army. Abu Akleh’s body left the Istishari Hospital in the occupied West Bank …

12-05-2022 STOCKHOLM/ LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said he had agreed new deals with Sweden and Finland to bolster European security, pledging to support both countries’ armed forces should they come under attack. The agreements, described by Britain as “a step-change in defence and security cooperation”, will …

12-05-2022 WASHINGTON: US consumer price growth slowed sharply in April as gasoline prices eased off record highs, suggesting that inflation has probably peaked, though it is likely to stay hot for a while and keep the Federal Reserve’s foot on the brakes to cool demand. That aspect was reinforced by …

12-05-2022 HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and four others who helped run a now-disbanded humanitarian fund for protesters, all on charges of “collusion with foreign forces”, a legal source said. Zen, a 90-year-old former bishop …

12-05-2022 By Our Special Correspondent KIRKUK/ BAGHDAD: Iraqi soldiers killed nine Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorists in Kirkuk, Iraq’s northern region, on Wednesday, according to the military. The Iraqi forces surrounded nine militants holed up in a tunnel near Kraw Mountain, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, and blasted the …