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05-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HALWANI: India’s Supreme Court has put on hold the demolition of more than 4,000 homes that were allegedly encroaching on land belonging to the railways in Haldwani town in the northern state of Uttarakhand. “There cannot be uprooting of 50,000 people overnight. There …

05-01-2023 WASHINGTON: A transgender woman convicted of murder was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States. Barring clemency from the governor of Missouri, Amber McLaughlin, 49, would be the first transgender person of either sex to be executed in the country, …

05-01-2023 PARIS: With tears and cries of “Martyrs live forever”, thousands of Kurds from across Europe have come to the suburbs of Paris to say farewell to three of their own killed in a December attack in the French capital. Buses were chartered to bring people from across France and …

05-01-2023 MOGADISHU: Two car bombs have martyred several people and flattened houses in central Somalia’s Hiraan region on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. “We were awoken this morning by two huge explosions,” Ahmed Nur, a local elder, told media. “We have seen many houses levelled to the ground. At …

05-01-2023 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of February, officials said on Wednesday, after they …

05-01-2023 SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday he would consider suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact if the North violates its airspace again, his office said, amid tension over a recent intrusion by North Korean drones. Yoon made the comment after being briefed on countermeasures to North …

05-01-2023 WASHINGTON: For the first time in nearly a century, the United States House of Representatives has failed to elect a speaker in the first rounds of voting, as Republican Kevin McCarthy fell short of securing a majority in the chamber to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi. McCarthy was not able …

05-01-2023 BOGOTA: A leftist rebel group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), says it is not part of a ceasefire with the government that had been announced by the president. On New Year’s Eve, President Gustavo Petro made a bold pronouncement on Twitter: Five of the country’s illegal armed …

05-01-2023 LONDON: Britain will officially declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which has arrested seven people with links to the United Kingdom over anti-government protests, as a terrorist group, the Telegraph reported on Monday, citing sources. The move, which will be announced within weeks, is supported by Britain’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, …

04-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan’s defence minister has alleged that Afghanistan’s soil is being used by armed groups to launch attacks on his country, prompting a sharp response from Taliban government in Kabul which called the allegation “incorrect” and “regrettable”. “We have spoken to Afghanistan …