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05-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 in southwestern Sichuan province in China has killed seven people, state television CCTV reported on Monday. The quake was recorded as the strongest to hit the province since 2013, with the shaking, felt in the provincial capital …

05-09-2022 BRUSSELS: The euro has sunk below $0.99, a new 20-year low after Russia’s halt to gas supplies down its main pipeline to Europe heightened fears about a deepening energy crisis across the region. The euro has been increasingly correlated with natural gas prices in recent months, with the former …

05-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Two Russian Embassy staff in Kabul were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the embassy, in a blast that injured 11 others, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Police said two people had died in …

05-09-2022 LONDON: Liz Truss was named as Britain’s next Prime Minister on Monday, winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest that …

04-09-2022 TRIPOLI: Fighting has broken out between Libyan armed factions on the western outskirts of Tripoli, as forces aligned with the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba further consolidated their control over the capital. Clashes on Friday and early Saturday took place in Warshafala, a district west …

04-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MOGADISHU/ HOUSTON/ MELBOURNE: Al-Shabab (a co-partner terror group of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ al-Qaeda/ “Taliban”) fighters have martyred at least 39 Shia Muslims (innocent civilians) and destroyed trucks laden with food aid in an overnight attack in Somalia’s central region. The armed group launched the attack …

04-09-2022 WARSAW: The remains of a “female vampire” have been found in a village in Poland pinned by a sickle across her throat, reported First News. Her toe was found padlocked so she could not “return from the dead”. The skeleton was discovered at a 17th-century cemetery during archaeological work. …

04-09-2022 FLORIDA: NASA has aborted a second launch attempt for its giant Moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak. Mission managers called off preflight operations on Saturday, about three hours before the 2:17pm EDT (1817 GMT) liftoff time targeted for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion …

04-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to devastating flooding that has killed at least 1,265 people. Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal called for an “immense humanitarian response for 33 million people” affected by monsoon rains that …

04-09-2022 MISSISSIPPI: A pilot of a small plane who threatened to crash into a Walmart store in Mississippi has landed without any injuries and was taken into custody, Governor Tate Reeves has said. “Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured,” Reeves said on Twitter on …