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01-11-2021 RIYADH: Saudi Arabian state oil producer Aramco has said its third-quarter net profit more than doubled, boosted by higher crude oil prices and volumes sold, beating analysts’ forecasts. Net income jumped to $30.4bn for the quarter to September 30 from $11.8bn a year earlier, it said in a bourse …

01-11-2021 GLASGOW: The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has begun in the Scottish city of Glasgow, accompanied by drastic warnings from the scientific community of an escalating climate crisis. Delayed by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, COP26 aims to keep alive a target of capping global warming at 1.5C …

01-11-2021 OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: A few metres away from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound’s eastern walls lies the centuries-old Al-Yousufiya Cemetery, also known as the Bab al-Asbat (Lion’s Gate) Cemetery. Over the past few weeks, videos and images of Palestinians clinging to their family members’ graves as Israeli forces arrest, …

31-10-2021 TOKYO: A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire. NHK public television reported dozens passengers were injured, including one seriously. The attacker, only identified as a man in his 20s, was arrested on the spot and was being …

31-10-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: More than 300,000 Victorians are still without power and some residents may in the dark until Monday after a destructive storm brought down powerlines and tore rooves off houses overnight. Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said nearly a quarter of the whole state had lost power as …

31-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NANGARHAR/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Gunmen who identified themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played, killing at least two people and injuring 10 others, officials say. A Taliban spokesman said two of the three gunmen had been arrested …

31-10-2021 ROME: Leaders of the world’s 20 major economies have approved a global agreement that will see the profits of large businesses taxed at least 15%. It follows concern that multinational companies are re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions. The pact was agreed by all the leaders attending the …

31-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: A man convicted of terrorism charges who was held at the held US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told a sentencing jury how he was raped, beaten, and waterboarded by CIA interrogators in the first-ever public account of torture …

31-10-2021 LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged “turbulence” in the UK’s relationship with France as the row over fishing rights escalates. After dozens of French boats were denied post-Brexit fishing licences for UK and Jersey waters, France threatened to block ports to British vessels but Johnson told the BBC …

31-10-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: US intelligence agencies say they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID-19, but they have concluded it was not created as a biological weapon. In an updated assessment of where the virus began, the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said …