US Gives Final Approval To COVID-19 Shots For Kids 5 to 11
WASHINGTON: Seven-year-old Gael Coreas stuck out his left arm fearlessly to receive his first COVID-19 shot at a health clinic in the nation’s capital on...
Cargo Plane Crash-Lands In Somalia
Mogadishu: A cargo plane on Wednesday caught fire after it crash-landed at Dolow town airfield in Southern Somalia, officials said. Dolow airport is dusty airstrip...
IAF Promotes Abhinandan As Group Commander
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force’s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman whose MiG-21 Bison was downed by Pakistan Air Force has been promoted as group commander. Wing...
Tesla Recalls Nearly 12,000 Vehicles Over Software Fault
Tesla Inc is recalling nearly 12,000 US vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of...
Use Of Foreign Currencies Banned In Afghanistan
KABUL: The Taliban government announced a ban on the use of foreign currencies, threatening further disruption to an already ailing economy. Since the group took...
Global Leaders Pledge to Safe Forests
GLASGOW: More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned...
Blast In Hospital Of Kabul Claims 13 Lives And Injuring 34 Others
KABUL: At least two explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in Kabul, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday. The blast resulted...
Suicide Rate Increases in India
NEW DELHI: How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October...
Pakistan Condemns Vandalization Of Mosques & Muslim Properties In India
Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the vandalization of several mosques, houses and shops of Muslims by radical Hindutva mobs in Tripura, India. In a statement,...
India Tests Agni-5 Ballistic Missile
NEW DELHI: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said. The...
Coup in Sudan As Military Detains PM Abdalla Hamdok
KHARTOUM: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday (today) in an apparent military...
US Announces Killing of Senior Al Qaeeda Leader in Drone Strike
A senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The strike comes two days after a base...
Muslims Offered First Jumma At Haram Sharif Without Coronavirus Restrictions
MAKKAH: After the Saudi government relaxed COVID-19 restrictions pertaining to holy sites, Muslims flocked to the Grand Mosque in Makkah today and offered Jumma (Friday)...
Twin Blasts in Syria Kill At Least 27
DAMASCUS : A rare bombing of an army bus in Damascus and government shelling shortly after of a town in rebel-held northwest Syria killed at...
Biden Nominates Donald Blome As US Envoy For Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The White House has said that President Joe Biden has appointed diplomat Donald Blome as US Ambassador to Pakistan, who has extensive experience in...
Iran Asks World Powers To Show Sincerity In Talks
TEHRAN: Iran’s president said Monday the United States should lift the sanctions on his country to prove it is serious about restarting stalled nuclear talks...
Zalmay Khalilzad Resigns as US Special Envoy For Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of patient hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent a...
Facebook Announces Thousands of Job
PARIS: Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the “metaverse”, a virtual reality version of the internet...