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07-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRUSSELS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ ISTANBUL:Th e United States, the European Union and 20 other countries have condemned the Taliban over allegations of summary killings of former police and intelligence officers in Afghanistan. The statement on Saturday came after Human Rights …

07-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: Russia and India signed a flurry of trade and arms deals during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, including one that will see India produce more than 600,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Putin travelled to …

07-12-2021 BASRA/ BAGHDAD: Several people have been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that rocked the centre of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. In a statement on Tuesday, the military said a motorcycle rigged with explosives was the cause of the blast, which sent …

06-12-2021 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: The UAE’s top national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is on a visit to Iran for high-level talks that are seen as a possible sign of thawing relations between the two countries. Sheikh Tahnoon, a brother of the country’s de facto ruler and Abu …

06-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Chairperson Waseem Rizvi, who has courted controversy on more than one occasion in the past over his bizarre views, has renounced Islam and decided to convert to Hinduism. As per Indian media reports, the infamous cleric was converted to …

06-12-2021 DOHA: Qatar will host football’s 2022 World Cup, a tournament that will be played across eight stadiums in November and December next year. Al Jazeera looks at the status of all eight stadiums that will host the 2022 World Cup matches: Khalifa International Stadium Capacity: 40,000 Inauguration: May 2017 …

06-12-2021 TEHRAN: The provinces of Sana’a and Sa’ada in Yemen came under attack by the Saudi-led coalition’s warplanes, with massive explosions reported in the capital. The Saudi-led coalition said it carried out the air raids on Thursday morning, claiming that it targeted one of the main stores of weapons and …

06-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Protesters have burned army vehicles after dozens of villagers were shot and killed by soldiers, who thought the villagers were “militants”, in India’s Nagaland state. Indian security forces opened fire on civilians late on Saturday in India’s remote northeast region, which borders Myanmar, according to …

05-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Reacting to the Taliban government’s decree on women’s rights which said women should not be considered “property” and must consent to marriage, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West Saturday said that Washington welcomed the decree reinforcing a …

05-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The iPhones of at least nine US State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter. The hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit US officials either …