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Pak PM's party wins most seats in PoK legislative elections marred by violence

This photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows rescuers working to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong province. (Photo: AFP)

Six detained over fatal tunnel flooding in south China

People stand in a guard tower on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. China's largest detention center is twice the size of Vatican City and has room for at least 10,000 inmates. (AP Photo)

Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center

In this image taken from KABC pool video, Harvey Weinstein, the 69-year-old convicted rapist and disgraced movie mogul, wears a face mask during an arraignment hearing, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Los Angeles. Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts in California. ( AP)

Weinstein pleads not guilty to sexual assaults in California

A woman sitting on a fence on a flooded street following heavy rains in Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province. (Photo: AFP)

Severe rainstorms kill 12 in flooded China subway

Saudi police women, who are recently deployed to the service, stand alert in front of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. (AP)

In a first, Saudi female officers allowed to guard Islam's holiest sites

The NHS staff has 45,300 more workers in 2021 compared to 2020 to fight the pandemic. (Representational image: ANI)

UK health workers to receive 3 per cent pay rise

The joint investigation into Pegasus identified at least 180 journalists in 20 countries who were selected for potential targeting between 2016 to June 2021. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Pegasus: French prosecutors open probe into alleged spying on French journalists

The global body against money laundering and terror financing also asked Pakistan to work to address its strategically important deficiencies. (Photo: AFP/File)

US asks Pakistan to keep working with FATF to complete its 27-point faction plan

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace on Tuesday shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-a-Adha. (AP)

Afghan official says rockets hit near presidential palace

The latest travel advisory replaces the one issued on May 5 that had placed India in the Level 4 category. (Representational image: AFP)

US eases travel recommendations on India as COVID-19 cases fall

The blasts targeted St Anthony's Church in Colombo, St Sebastian's Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and a church in the eastern town of Batticaloa when the Easter Sunday mass was in progress on April 21, 2019. (AFP Photo)

Easter Sunday attacks: Lanka's failure to act on Indian intel played up in Parliament

France also shortened the time frame for when a person is considered fully vaccinated after the second dose, to one week instead of two. (ANI Photo)

France allows visitors with Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine

Debris of houses and trees surround houses in Schuld, Germany, Friday, July 16, 2021. Two days before the Ahr river went over the banks after strong rain falls causing severals deaths and hundreds of people missing. (AP)

Death toll from Europe floods tops 150 as water recedes

A security gate is set up near the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on July 17, 2021. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

First coronavirus case hits Tokyo Olympics Village

Columns

Sanjaya Baru

Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

Abhijit Bhattacharyya

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it treats Indians

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

Ranjona Banerji

Ranjona Banerji | Keeping score, for the love of tennis and for mother

It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it

Pavan K Varma

Pavan K. Varma | Pegashush! It’s ‘another’ international conspiracy

This is precisely what we are seeing in the response of the BJP and the government to the Pegasus saga

South Asia

China’s military base in Djibouti. (Photo: AP)

Chinese acquiring land around military bases in Japan: Report

The investments and purchase plans were driven by Chinese-led foreign corporations and could pose a risk to Japan's safety

Negative views of China rise sharply in advanced democracies: Survey

One of the most important factors with regard to China's reputation abroad has been the coronavirus

The Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday said that travellers from India will not be allowed to disembark in Sri Lanka. (AFP)

Sri Lanka bans travellers from India with immediate effect

Several countries like UK, UAE, Australia and Singapore have already banned travellers from India as well as other South Asian countries

A child wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus looks as masked people browsing their smartphones near Forbidden City in Beijing. (AP)

China reports surge in symptomless COVID-19 infections

A total of 20 new confirmed and 161 new asymptomatic cases were reported in the mainland on October 25

China declines to congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden

China has not yet come out with an official reaction to Biden and Kamala Harris' victory

Asia

People queue to undergo nucleic acid testing for the coronavirus in the city of Ruili which borders Myanmar, in China's southwestern Yunnan province on July 5, 2021. (STR / AFP) / China OUT

China tightens security on Myanmar border over virus fears

On Wednesday, 57 new cases were reported, the highest daily tally since late January, including 15 in the city of Ruili, next to Myanmar

China's military budget -- the second largest in the world after the US, though still less than a third of Washington's -- is set to increase by 6.8 percent in 2021, the finance ministry announced in March. (Representational image: AFP)

Beijing accuses NATO of exaggerating 'China threat theory'

Military tensions have increased over the past year between China and rival powers including the United States and India

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers his opening remarks at the Lanting Forum on bringing China-U.S. relations back to the right track, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing on Monday, February 22, 2021. (AP /Andy Wong)

China urges US to lift trade restrictions, stop interference

China faces more opposition than ever in Washington due to its trade record, territorial disputes with neighbours

China's first official COVID-19 case was in December 2019 and was linked to Wuhan's Huanan seafood market. (Representational image: AFP)

First COVID-19 case could have hit China in October 2019: Study

The most likely date for the virus's emergence was November 17, 2019, and it had probably already spread globally by January 2020

Middle East

The golden visa will also be granted to holders of specialised degrees in artificial intelligence, big data, or epidemiology and virology in addition to the UAE high school top graduates along with their families, the Gulf News reported.

UAE grants 10-year golden residency visa to more professionals

The decision aims to attract and retain experts and talented professionals from various fields and scientific disciplines, the report said

US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field, on November 28, 2019 in Afghanistan. - The US will cut its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 in January, the lowest level in nearly two decades of war, as outgoing President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to end conflicts abroad, the Pentagon announced on November 17, 2020. (AFP)

US announces troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq

The House Armed Services Committee has announced a hearing on Afghanistan on November 20

Emirates planes are parked at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP)

Emirates to fly from India again as Dubai lifts ban over virus

Dubai said that only passengers from India 'who have received two doses of a UAE-approved vaccine' would be allowed to travel to the emirate

The new guidelines state that only those pilgrims who have been duly inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine will be allowed to visit the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (The Prophet's Mosque) and Masjid al-Haram (The Great Mosque), said the Kingdom's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. (Representational Image/AP)

Saudi Arabia issues new COVID-19 guidelines for Umrah pilgrims

From the 1st of Ramadan, only those who have received coronavirus vaccines will be allowed to enter the holy mosques

People's uprising loyal to Ata Mohammad Noor, chief of Jamiat-e-Islami and a powerful northern warlord, stand guard at their office in Mazar-e-Sharif north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

India evacuates staff from Kandahar as Taliban captures new areas

A special aircraft of the Indian Air Force was sent on Saturday to bring back the Indian diplomats, officials and other staff members

Africa

Wildlife vets take samples from dead elephants found in Hwange National park, Zimbabwe. (AP)

Zimbabwe investigating deaths of 22 elephants, more expected

Zimbabwe has been facing successive climate-induced droughts in recent years, leaving animals with less water and vegetation for food

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Saturday, March 27, 2021. Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a crucial waterway for global shipping. (AP)

2 tugboats speed to Egypt’s Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

The tugboats will nudge the 400-meter-long Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Sunday, March 28, 2021. The massive Ever Given, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal. (AP/Mohamed Elshahed)

Ever Given starts to move in Suez Canal: maritime traffic tracking sites

Each day of the blockade could be costing global trade some $6-10 billion, according to a study published Friday by German insurer Allianz

An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached, and syringes, with a flag of the European Union, on November 17, 2020. (AFP)

Poorer and developing nations face vaccine wait as West locks down supply

Based on advance purchase agreements signed with Pfizer, it is calculated that 1.1 billion doses had been snapped up by wealthy nations

Europe

Climate and environmental activist Greta Thunberg. (AFP)

After Rihanna, Greta Thunberg extends support to farmers' protest

Thunberg tweeted soon after singer Rihanna shared a news article highlighting the Centre's crackdown on the farmers

A file picture of the police personnels from Moscow (Image Source: AP)

Moscow police clash with Navalny supporters as tens of thousands rally

Washington and Brussels condemned the arrests and other tactics used against demonstrators

A general view of Pfizer Manufacturing Belgium in Puurs, Belgium. Pfizer and BioNTech say they've won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the world’s first coronavirus shot that’s backed by rigorous science -- and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic.(AP)

UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, first in the world

Britain’s vaccine committee will decide which priority groups will get the jab first

People sunbathe around the fountains in trafalgar Square in central London on September 18, 2020, as the fine weather in the south of England continues. (AFP)

From Denmark to Greece, European cities announce tighter COVID-19 restrictions

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was inevitable that the country would see a second wave of the coronavirus

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (AP)

West trying to engage India in 'anti-China games': Russia

Observers point out that the remarks highlight Russia’s unease with India’s growing proximity and strong strategic ties with the US

Americas

The H-1B visa allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

US allows some H-1B visa seekers to re-submit their applications

Such petitions must be re-submitted before October 1, 2021

Biden on Wednesday planned to halt construction on Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall, end the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization and revoke the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, aides said. (Photo:AP)

It’s a new day in America

Biden to end country cap on H1B visas with his first orders

A firefighter sprays water while trying to stop the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, from spreading to neighboring homes in Doyle, Calif., Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds amid a heat wave, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo)

California and other parts of the West broil and burn

Late Saturday, flames jumped U.S. 395, which was closed near the small town of Doyle in California’s Lassen County

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference on the day after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, January. 7, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn't resign 'immediately', says Pelosi

Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the impeachment proceedings should begin immediately

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