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Published by Al-Araby More than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday, as authorities arrested four suspected insurgents over this week’s rocket attack on Kabul. Since early May, violence has surged across several provinces including in Kandahar after the insurgents launched […]

Published by Reuters By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Three Hong Kong judges will rule on Tuesday whether the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our Times” is a call for secession when they deliver a verdict on charges against a man arrested at a demonstration last year. The landmark ruling could have

Published by Al-Araby During a trip to Washington last month, Abbas Kamel, the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate and often referred to as Egypt’s “spy chief”, made an astonishing claim to US congress. Kamel said that, in 2015, when the US was negotiating the release of the Egyptian-American human rights activistMohamed Soltan, US

Published by Reuters By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Scores of wildfires raging across the Western United States’ forest and scrub have belched so much smoke that it is helping an army of firefighters gain ground on the nation’s biggest blaze, Oregon’s Bootleg fire, by blocking sunlight, officials said on Saturday. Both the National Weather Service

Newscraving Desk: Jammu The Jammu and Kashmir police Friday shot down a drone carrying 5 kg IED in Kanachak area of Jammu, officials said. A senior police official said that it was in the wee hours today that a general information was received by Jammu district police that a drone has been spotted near International

Published by DPA Bangladesh is reimposing its anti-coronavirus shutdown for two more weeks to stem the tide of infections and deaths from the virus after a nine-day recess that allowed Muslims to celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival. “None will be allowed outdoors unless it is urgent,” police officer Aynal Hossain said on Friday at a

Published by Al-Araby One person was shot dead when rioting erupted in western Iran late Thursday in sympathy with the drought-hit province of Khuzestan which has seen a week of protests, state television reported. Two people also suffered gunshot wounds in the rioting in the town of Aligudarz in Lorestan province, which neighbours Khuzestan, the

Published by AFP Berlin (AFP) – More than half of all European adults are now fully vaccinated, the EU said Thursday, as several countries across Europe and Asia battle fresh outbreaks blamed on the fast-spreading Delta variant.   German Chancellor Angela Merkel said cases in her country were rising “exponentially”, while in Japan the delayed

Published by DPA With their numbers massively pared down for the second year in a row due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Muslim pilgrims began a stoning ritual as part of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. While normally some 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world would be

Published by Al-Araby Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of “treason” and compromising national security by the country’s largest opposition party after it alleged he used spyware against its former leader, Rahul Gandhi. Governments around the world are facing allegations they used the Israeli-based NSO Group – maker of the Pegasus spyware –