Iran asked to punish culprits involved in Panjgur attack
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday urged Iran to punish culprits of Panjgur cross-border attack. Four Pakistani troops were martyred when terrorists on Wednesday attacked a security forces’ convoy in Panjgur district located on the border with Iran. The attack occurred when the convoy was patrolling the border. “We call upon the Iranian authorities to […]
Eating one wild fish same as month of drinking tainted water: study
PARIS: Eating one freshwater fish caught in a river or lake in the United States is the equivalent of drinking a month’s worth of water contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals”, new research said on Tuesday. The invisible chemicals called PFAS were first developed in the 1940s to resist water and heat, and are now used […]
Russia-Belarus joint military drills spark fears of new offensive
DNIPRO: Russia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, triggering fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a new ground offensive in Ukraine. The two allies will conduct air force drills from Jan 16 to Feb 1 using all Belarus military airfields and began joint army exercises […]
Biden declares disaster as another storm hits flooded California
SALINAS: US President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in California, as the latest in a succession of storm systems blew into the state, bringing heavy flooding to already waterlogged regions and threatening snowfalls of up to six feet. The latest system is expected to bring “heavy lower-elevation rain, significant mountain snow, and strong […]
Russia claims taking Soledar, Ukraine denies takeover
KRAMATORSK: Russia said on Friday its forces had wrested control of the war-scarred town of Soledar in east Ukraine, its first claim of victory in months of battlefield setbacks, but Ukraine said there was no takeover. Both sides have conceded heavy losses in the battle for the salt mining outpost, with Moscow desperate to sell […]
Astronomers discover Milky Way galaxy’s most distant stars
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy — almost halfway to a neighbouring galaxy. The researchers said these 208 stars inhabit the most remote reaches of the Milky Way’s halo, a spherical […]
India Sees 197 Fresh COVID Cases
New Delhi, Jan 12: India saw a single-day rise of 197 new coronavirus infections with active cases declining to 2,309, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The total tally of Covid cases was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,80,583). The overall death toll stands at 5,30,723 with one death reconciled by Kerala, […]
UN calls executions by Iran ‘state-sanctioned killings’
GENEVA: As global condemnation of Iran’s execution of protesters intensified, the country on Tuesday decided to “firmly punish” people who violate the hijab law. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva condemned the executions in Iran and said they amounted to state-sanctioned killing. Tehran has executed four people in connection with nearly four months […]
‘Once in a century’ flood cuts off communities in Australia
SYDNEY: Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting water covered some places “as far as the eye could see”. The crisis in the Kimberley — an sparsely populated area in Western Australia state about […]
No respite for Ukraine’s east despite Putin’s truce
BAKHMUT: Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on Friday despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to stop attacking for 36 hours. The brief ceasefire declared by Putin earlier this week was supposed to begin at 0900 GMT on Friday and would have been the first full pause since Moscow’s invasion […]