03-03-02022 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ ISLAMABAD: The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that “demands” Russia “immediately” withdraw from Ukraine, however Pakistan has abstained taking part in voting against resolution. Japan and New Zealand led condemnation from Asia, but the continent’s giants, China, India and …
Read More »Afghan female reporters fear increased restrictions
03-03-02022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A number of Afghan women reporters on Sunday said the restrictions by the Islamic Emirate against them have increased recently and this situation has made them worry about the future. The reporters said that even in some press conferences held by …
Read More »Groom violently beats bride during wedding in India
03-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: While weddings are all about people feeling happy and cheerful, a couple in India shocked guests and later netizens, after they engaged in a violent altercation during their garland exchange ceremony (varmala) that took over a very petty issue. In a viral video of the …
Read More »Australia becoming one of most risky counties in world
02-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Beside all so-called efforts and despite entire anti-smuggling struggles, the Australia is becoming one of worst, lawlessness, dangerous, violent and risky country in world while neither almost total LEAs and rulers nor concerned sections are seemed to be worried in this regard, …
Read More »Russia attacks key Ukraine cities as invasion intensifies
02-03-2022 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Russia intensifies its attacks on key Ukrainian cities with fighting raging for a seventh day in the north, east and south. Russian paratroopers have landed in Kharkiv in the north-east, Ukraine says, with heavy fighting reported. In the south, Russia says it has taken control of the …
Read More »Yemen downs another US spy drone over Hajjah
02-03-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: The armed forces of Yemen intercepted and targeted another US-built Boeing Insitu ScanEagle spy drone belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition as it was flying over country’s northern province of Hajjah. The spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a post on …
Read More »Taliban ban women from travelling abroad alone
01-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: KABUL: The Taliban have clamped down on Afghans leaving the country as, separately, their forces continue a massive security sweep, going house-to-house across the capital Monday in a “clearing operation”. The new travel ban was announced late Sunday by Taliban spokesman …
Read More »IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming
01-03-2022 NEW YORK/ GENEVA: Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment but the authors of a new report say that there is still a brief window of time to avoid the very worst. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says …
Read More »Ukraine asks for ceasefire in talks with Russia
01-03-2022 KYIV / MOSCOW: The international media summarizes war-hit Ukraine and Russia as under; Negotiators for Kyiv and Moscow are holding talks in Belarus but expectations are not high. Before the meeting, President Zelensky urged Russian troops to lay down their weapons and called for immediate EU membership. On the …
Read More »China hints at limits of friendship with Russia
01-03-2022 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: As Russia’s economy gets hammered by sanctions, China has emerged as the key player with the potential to lessen its partner’s economic pain but amid Moscow’s deepening international isolation, there are growing signs that Beijing’s willingness to throw its strategic partner an economic lifeline may only go …
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