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30-11-2022 VATICAN CITY/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. The “cruelest” troops are generally Chechens and Buryats, Pope Francis told a US magazine. He also labelled the Holodomor famine …

30-11-2022 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Four more Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli forces in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials say. Two were brothers who were shot dead as clashes broke out with Israeli troops during an operation near Ramallah. The third was martyred …

30-11-2022 LONDON: The Muslim population in England and Wales grew rapidly during the past 10 years, showed the census data released by Office for National Statistics (ONS) Tuesday. According to the 10-yearly census carried out in 2021, no religion rose by 12 points to 37.2% or 22.2 million, while Muslims …

29-11-2022 MOGADISHU: Somali forces are battling to regain control of a hotel seized by anti-Shia militants in the centre of the capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday evening. At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured in the siege which has lasted more than 12 hours. Witnesses have told …

29-11-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOCHI: A mob stormed a police station in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Sunday night, injuring 36 police officers, as months of protests against a port project escalated into violence. The port is being built by Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd, …

29-11-2022 GENEVA: Monkeypox will now be known as mpox, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, after complaints over racist and stigmatizing language linked to the virus’s name. The old term will be used alongside the new one for a year, before being phased out. Mpox was decided on after …

29-11-2022 DUBAI: Police have dismantled a huge drugs “super-cartel” that controlled a third of Europe’s cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in various countries, including six chief suspects in Dubai, according to Europol. The huge international operation seized 30 tonnes of the drug and led to arrests in Belgium, France, the …

29-11-2022 BEIJING/ SHANGHAI: Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into a third day and spread to several other cities. The latest demonstrations, unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power a decade ago began after 10 people …

29-11-2022 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has said it will not cooperate with a United Nations fact-finding mission on its response to ongoing anti-government demonstrations due to what it calls the investigation’s “political” nature. Tehran will have “no form of cooperation with this political committee which has been framed as a …

28-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS: There is “no credible pathway” to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment. Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world. The report says that since COP26 …