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28-05-2022 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, Iranian state media reported, shortly after Tehran warned it would take “punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from a tanker held off the Greek coast. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard …

28-05-2022 GENEVA: Countries should take quick steps to contain the spread of monkeypox and share data about their vaccine stockpiles, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday. “We think that if we put in place the right measures now we probably can contain this easily,” Sylvie Briand, WHO …

27-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW YORK: The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in the country as the governing Taliban imposes new restrictions on women and attacks against religious minorities mount. Richard Bennett said on …

27-05-2022 DOHA/ HAGUE: Al Jazeera Media Network has assigned a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The network said in a statement on Thursday that it has formed an international coalition that consists of its …

27-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS: China and Russia on Thursday vetoed a US-led bid at the United Nations to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its missile launches, laying bare divisions that Western envoys fear would be exploited by Pyongyang. The Security Council resolution put forward by the United States would have …

27-05-2022 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has not yet released its decision that looks set to dramatically scale back abortion rights, but one of the next legal battles has already begun in a Mississippi court. That is where the manufacturer of a pill used to carry out medication abortions, Las …

27-05-2022 MOSCOW: Russia is advancing a new law allowing it to take control of the local businesses of western companies that decide to leave in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit. The law, which could be in place within weeks, will …

27-05-2022 LONDON/ ATHENS:  The United States has confiscated Iranian oil held on a Russian-operated ship near Greece and will send the cargo to the United States aboard another vessel, three sources familiar with the matter said. It was unclear whether the cargo was impounded because it was Iranian oil or …

26-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned Pakistan’s government to set new elections in the next six days or he will again march on the capital along with millions of people. Khan spoke at a rally of thousands of demonstrators early …

26-05-2022 JERUSALEM/ OCCUPIED AL-QUDS: An Israeli appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling questioning the legal basis of a longstanding ban on non-Muslim prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The special sensitivity of the Temple Mount cannot be overstated,” Judge Einat Avman-Moller said in her …