09-10-2021 JERUSALEM: An Israeli court has upheld a ban on Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, overturning a lower court’s decision that had sparked fury among Palestinians and the Muslim world. Aryeh Lippo, an Israeli rabbi, was slapped with a two-week ban from the compound last month after praying there, …
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09-10-2021 RIYADH: At least 10 people have been reported injured in an attack on an airport in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jazan, near the border with Yemen. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said the attack on Friday evening targeted the King Abdullah Airport. Citing a Saudi-led coalition spokesman, SPA said …
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09-10-2021 JERUSALEM: A landmark ruling by an Israeli court in favor of Jews praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex has stoked Palestinian fears of Jewish encroachment over Jerusalem’s holiest site. Palestinians denounced on Thursday a decision by an Israeli Magistrate Court not to regard prayer by Jewish worshippers as a “criminal …
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09-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Tata Sons Pvt. was selected as the winning bidder for India’s flag carrier, ending decades of attempts to privatize a money-losing and debt-laden airline, and potentially ending years of taxpayer-bailouts that’s kept the company alive. Tata Sons, which originally launched Air India Ltd. with a …
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09-10-2021 OSLO: Journalists Maria Ressa, of the Philippines, and Dmitry Muratov, of Russia, have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, recognized “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression”, which the prize-giving committee described as being under threat worldwide The two were given the prestigious award “for their courageous fight …
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08-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KUNDUZ/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A powerful explosion has targeted a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz and left over 50 martyred while hundreds other injured, a senior Taliban official and witnesses said. The blast occurred during the weekly Friday prayer …
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08-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ PARIS : Since it took power in August, the Taliban has been on a desperate quest to have its Islamic Emirate recognized internationally as the official government of Afghanistan but so far, those attempts have yet to bear fruit. …
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08-10-2021 NEW DELHI: India has begun delivering Covid-19 vaccines by commercial drones to speed up the vaccination drive, a senior government scientist told the BBC. Dr Samiran Panda said drones are being used to deliver doses in mountainous states in the country’s north-east. India aims to vaccinate all eligible citizens …
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08-10-2021 TEHRAN: Iran decried the United States and the Israeli regime’s decades-long efforts to prevent the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free Middle East region. “In our region, the US stance and that of the Israeli regime on the Middle East free zone of nuclear weapons, initiated by Iran in 1974, …
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08-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies AMSTERDAM/ BRUSSELS/ KARACHI: Croatia, Greece and Romania have carried out hundreds of illegal pushback operations at the European Union’s external borders since early 2020 as part of a “violent campaign” to deny access to asylum, a new report alleges. The findings, published on …
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