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Geneva: The World Health Organisation advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters. Biosecurity experts say Russia's movement of troops into Ukraine and bombardment of
Tehran: Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early on Sunday near a sprawling US consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two of its Revolutionary Guards. No injuries
Moscow/Frankfurt: Russia detained more than 800 people for protesting Moscow’s “military operation” in Ukraine, as the conflict continues for a third week. OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police had detained 800 people during demonstrations in 23 Russian cities. A journalist present at a protest in
Kiev: A pregnant woman, whose viral images last week epitomised Russia’s brutality in Ukraine, has died along with her baby. The woman was injured in the bombing of a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol. Last Wednesday, images captured the woman stroking her bloodied belly as
Riaz Mohammad Khan THE Russian invasion of Ukraine is a point of inflection in world affairs, similar to the US outreach to China in the early 1970s and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The situation is unfolding. There are many imponderables including how
Rahul Bedi Islamabad’s sharp response to the Indian defence ministry admitting a missile had been “accidentally fired” into Pakistan last week has dented India’s credibility as a responsible, mature and accountable nuclear-weapon state. “India’s incompetence or carelessness, or both, in inadvertently firing this missile into Pakistan, has
Florida: Asteroid 2022 AE1, the "riskiest asteroid" discovered on January 7 by space scientists in Europe, predicted to hit Earth by July 4, 2023 has now changed its course and is expected to peacefully pass earth, ESA reported. The 230-feet-wide asteroid was calculated to be the
Yashasvi Yadav Nondescript towns in Rajasthan and Haryana like Mewat, Bharatpur, Alwar are spinning a diabolical revolution. School-dropout teenage children and their uneducated but cunning masterminds run sextortion rackets that span across several countries and earn millions. Police officers, politicians, businessmen, doctors have all fallen prey
Male: Opposition leader, former President Abdullah Yameen Abdul Gayyoom has stated that the Maldives is no longer being governed by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, but rather as per the orders of India. He said this while addressing a crowd of supporters and well-wishers who had gathered
Madhya Pradesh: On Saturday night in Narmadapuram, Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh, a five-decade old Muslim shrine or Dargah was vandalised, and then painted in saffron by unidentified men. The incident, according to the police, came to light around 6 am on Sunday, when a few
Islamabad: Pakistan condemned the illegal sealing off an educational institute by Indian Occupation forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). The Foreign Office spokesperson, in a statement said Pakistan strongly condemn the reported shutting down of Darul Uloom Khadija tul Kubra, an educational institute in IIOJK. The
New Delhi: India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan on Wednesday, blaming the incident on a “technical malfunction” during routine maintenance. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in an analysis posted on its website said, “Any object entering the airspace of any country is considered an