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UK: Pig’s head placed on Mosque’s roof in Manchester
In an incident reported from manchester on Tuesday, a pig’s head was reportedly placed on the roof of a mosque. The police are investigating the matter as a hate crime. The incident…
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British-Pakistani cricketer forced to leave UK over racist abuse
London: Azeem Rafiq, a 31-year-old British-Pakistani former Yorkshire cricketer, has been forced to leave the UK after his allegations about institutional racism at the Yorkshire County Cricket Club (CCC) last year created…
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Peru’s new President seeks early polls amid intensified protests
Lima: Peru’s new President Dina Boluarte said she plans to meet the Congressional Constitution Committee to “shorten the timeframe” for holding the early general elections as deadly protests have intensified across the…
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Additional H-2B visas for FY 2023: USCIS
New York: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are issuing a temporary final rule that makes 64,716 additional H-2B visas available for fiscal year 2023.…
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Zelensky calls for 50mn LED lightbulbs to cope with energy crisis
Kiev: In the wake of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s fragile energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for 50 million LED lightbulbs which would save around one gigawatt of power and reduce…
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High-level ministerial meeting to take up UNSC reforms
United Nations: Indias External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will preside over a high-level ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday to push for reforming the body to take on…
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US charges 7 with military tech plot on Russian govt orders
Washington: The US has charged five Russian nationals, including a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, and two Americans for allegedly conspiring to obtain military-grade and dual-use technologies from US companies for…
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Biden signs bill on same-sex marriage
Washington: US President Joe Biden signed a bill codifying federal protections for same-sex marriage. The move, on Tuesday, came days after the Respect for Marriage Act went through the US Congress, Xinhua…
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Pakistan’s brain drain situation aggravates; 765K youths moved overseas in 2022: Official data
Islamabad: Pakistan’s brain drain situation has aggravated with more than 7,60,000 educated youth seeking employment overseas this year mainly because of the uncertain economic and political situation in the country, according to…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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5 Sri Lanka fishermen missing after cyclone Mandous
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries on Tuesday announced that five fishermen disappeared while at sea during cyclone Mandous. The five from three multi-day fishing vessels are residents of Batticaloa, Trincomalee and…
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Forest fires destroy 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this yr
Santiago: Up to 1,587 forest fires have razed more than 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this year, Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela said. While the fires were 9 per cent fewer than…
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2 cops among 6 dead in Australia shooting incident
Brisbane: Two police officers were among six victims of a shooting incident in Australia’s Queensland state, police said on Tuesday, adding that a major investigation is underway. The incident took place in…
- Afghanistan
A new dynamic in the Af-Pak Great Game
Kabul: Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan has changed drastically ever since takeover of the Taliban in Kabul. The nature of engagement from the initial days of the Taliban government when one witnessed the…
