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World’s first “synthetic embryo”: why this research is more important than you think

Melbourne: In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised eggs, embryos, or even a mouse using only stem cells…
US: Senate Democrats clear first hurdle on healthcare, climate bills

Washington: US Senate Democrats advanced their long-delayed health care, tax and climate bill following months of uncertainty over whether the major legislation could be passed before the November mid-term elections. The Senate voted…

Three dead in bomb blast on second day of attacks in Kabul

Kabul: Three persons were killed and seven others were injured in a blast in Kabul’s Pol-e-Sukhta area on Saturday evening, according to Mawlawi Zabihullah, commander of PD6 in Kabul, media reports said. Reports…
UNSC to address Gaza airstrikes as death toll reaches 24

Gaza: The UN Security Council (UNSC) is to discuss Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza in a closed doors session in New York on Monday, as the death toll continued to rise, with 24 people…
Dick Cheney calls Trump ‘coward’, ‘greatest threat to Republic’

Washington: Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has attacked ex-President Donald Trump, calling him a “coward who lost big” and who poses the “greatest threat to our Republic” in what appears to…
China’s anti-crime campaign targets ‘disloyal’ Uyghurs

Hotan (Xinjiang): Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced”, a police officer said, as per…
Biden denounces Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting on its tenth anniversary

New Delhi: US President Joe Biden has denounced the Gurdwara shooting that took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012, on its tenth anniversary. Terming it as the deadliest attack…

UK PM race: Rishi Sunak issues stark inflation warning

London: The governing Conservative Party can kiss goodbye to winning the next UK general election, due around 2024, unless soaring inflation is brought under control fast, Rishi Sunak has warned on the…
Ukraine risks repeating Chernobyl disaster

Moscow: Russia has asked the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to make Ukraine stop the “shelling” of Chernobyl, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Moscow accused Ukrainian troops of firing artillery…
After pressure from India, Sri Lanka urges China to defer entry of Chinese ‘spy’ ship

Colombo: Amid pressure from its immediate neighbour India, Sri Lanka has urged China to delay the entry of controversial Chinese ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ into the Chinese controlled port in Southern Hambantota.…
Bangladesh police detain vocalist for singing Tagore and Nazrul Islam songs

Bangladeshi freelancer music video model and actor Ashraful Hossen Alom, popularly known as Hero Alom was allegedly tortured mentally by the Dhaka police last week. In an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP)…
UN chief extends support to Sri Lanka amid economic crisis

Colombo: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has extended support to the Sri Lankan government and the people to meet their immediate and long-term needs. “The United Nations is ready to support the…
Man who threatened to kill Anthony Fauci jailed for 37 months

Washington: A West Virginia man who threatened to kill Anthony Fauci for his work as chief medical advisor to the US President during the Covid-19 pandemic has been sentenced to more than three…
China-Taiwan crisis: Taipie accuses China of simulation attack

Taipei: In manoeuvres around Taiwan on Saturday, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is performing “what it believed to be a simulation of an attack on Taiwan’s main island”, according to the Defence…
Pak: Oppn demands to know if airspace used for drone strike on Zawahiri

Islamabad: PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the “question” was not about Pakistans soil being used in the US drone attack that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri, but its…