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28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Senior officials of Afghanistan’s neighboring states have gathered in Iran’s capital for a one-day conference to discuss the situation in the Taliban-ruled country. The foreign ministers of Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan met on Wednesday in Tehran, …

28-10-2021 PARIS/ LONDON: France has seized one British trawler for operating in its territorial waters without a licence and fined another as a bitter dispute with the United Kingdom over post-Brexit access to fishing grounds escalates. The French maritime ministry said the ships were cautioned during checks by maritime police …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Al Jazeera) NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Last week, Hindu right-wing forces in India forced a leading firm to withdraw its festive season advertisement after it featured a couple of words from the Urdu language, which in the popular imagination in the country is a “Muslim language”. …

28-10-2021 RIYADH/ DUBAI/ DAMASCUS: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have summoned Lebanon’s ambassadors to protest against Information Minister George Kordahi’s criticism of the Riyadh-led military coalition fighting rebels in Yemen. Kordahi said during an interview aired on Monday that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels are “defending themselves … against an external …

28-10-2021 WASHINGTON/ BNEIJING: Top US General Mark Milley has called China’s recent hypersonic missile test “very close” to a Sputnik moment. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in an interview with Bloomberg TV called “the test of a hypersonic weapon system,” first reported by the Financial Times last week …

28-10-2021 KUWAIT CITY: The Middle East is warming faster than much of the world, and Kuwait is careering towards unbearable temperatures. With the mercury topping 53C, three Kuwaiti citizens – an influence, a weather forecaster and a retired civil servant – raise the alarm. They urge that Kuwait must not …

27-10-2021 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ PARIS: Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for a “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the United Nations has said, the latest stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks. Just days before the COP26 climate summit in the …

26-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ SHARJAH/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan erupted in celebration on Monday evening, with those following the national cricket team sharing a rare moment of joy with a 130-run win over Scotland in the T20 World Cup. Afghans, those abroad and the ones in …

26-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Stuck in a village in southern India for nine months and unable to return to his job in Saudi Arabia, Sugathan PR is hoping the World Health Organization (WHO) will approve the Indian COVID-19 shot Covaxin, paving the way for his trip back. Like Sugathan, …

26-10-2021 LOS ANGELES: Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured — including a police officer — when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho. Police in Boise were called to the mall with reports “that at least one person was …