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12-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a variant of COVID-19 behind the acceleration of India’s explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world. The UN health agency on Wednesday said the B.1.617 variant of the …

12-05-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Palestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip. The 13-storey building was attacked an hour and a half after residents and local people were warned to evacuate, …

12-05-2021 Bureau Report MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI/ LONDON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to Britain for the Group of Seven (G7) summit next month because of the coronavirus situation in the country, the foreign ministry said late on Tuesday. “While appreciating the invitation to the Prime Minister by …

11-05-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave. Health authorities in Gaza said at least 28 Palestinians including 10 children were killed in Israeli air strikes on the strip since late …

11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ CHRISTMAS ISLAND/ MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: As Press Media of India (PMI) and Messenger have already been revealing and exposing Australia especially its former and present regimes, officials, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), political, social and religious parties, native people and migrants, infrastructural …

11-05-2021 MOSCOW: A school shooting in Russia’s southwestern city of Kazan has left at least 11 people dead, most of them children, Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing local emergency services. Russian media said at least eight children were among those killed in the attack on Tuesday. Two …

11-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING: China’s population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday. The growth of 5.4% since the last census in 2010 reflects fears of a looming demographic crisis amid an ageing society and slowing birthrates, with a …

11-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Dozens of bodies of people believed to have died from COVID-19 have washed up on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, officials said on Monday. District official Ashok Kumar said that about 40 corpses washed up in Buxar district near the border …

11-05-2021 GAZA/ JERUSALEM: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards Israel. The Gaza health ministry told media on Monday that 21 people, including children, had been …

11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report THATTA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Prominent human rights activist and General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Zeeshan Ali Khowaja Advocate urged the government of India to release 50 fishermen who had strayed into the waters of the other country and their boats also be …