Category: World
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Pak HC in UK wants cohesion among Islamic faiths, sects
NUT Desk- LONDON: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to UK Moazzam Ahmad Khan has highlighted the need for promoting greater cohesion and understanding among various faiths and sects of Islam. The High Commissioner expressed these views in an interaction with faith leaders of Pakistani origin in Birmingham, a press release issued by the High Commission on Thursday said.…
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Dinosaurs lived and thrived in the ancient Arctic
NUT Desk- WASHINGTON: Dinosaur species large and small didn´t just pass through the Arctic — they made it their year-round home and probably developed wintering strategies like hibernation or growing insulating feathers, according to a new study. The paper, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, is the result of more than a decade´s worth…
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Fear stalks northern Afghan city az Taliban lay siege
NUT Desk- KUNDUZ, Afghanistan,: Fear stalked Kunduz Thursday as residents prepared for a lengthy siege, with government forces patrolling the streets and Taliban insurgents surrounding the northern Afghan city. The Taliban have held the city twice in recent years — both times briefly — but have now captured the surrounding districts and the main border…
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UK police set up dog DNA database
NUT Desk- LONDON: Dog theft was the scourge of the coronavirus lockdown across Britain. Now a police force is doing something about it — by setting up a canine DNA database. Gloucestershire Police in western England said Wednesday it was the first force in the world to store the unique genetic marker to help probe…
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Philippines´ ex-president ´Noynoy´ Aquino dies
NUT Desk- MANILA: Former Philippine president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, the reserved scion of one of Asia´s most famous political families, died Thursday from kidney failure. He was 61. Aquino, who was in office from 2010 to 2016, was the only son of the late former president Corazon Aquino and her assassinated husband, senator Benigno “Ninoy”…
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US hits 5 Xinjiang companies with restrictions over forced labor
NUT Desk- WASHINGTON: The US government banned imports of solar panel materials from a Chinese company and placed trade restrictions on four others Thursday for alleged use of forced labor in the Xinjiang region. The White House said in a statement that Xinjiang-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. would not be able to sell its products…
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Pakistani honored in UAE for rescuing woman from drowning
ISLAMABAD: Lt Col Ghaith Khalifa Salem Al Kaabi, Director of the Comprehensive City Police Station, honored Muhammad Nagman, a Pakistani national, for his courage in saving a 58-year-old Sri Lankan woman from drowning in Ajman Marina. The details of the incident came to light when Nagman saw a woman in the sea waving her hand…
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Antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison
MADRID: John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said. The eccentric cryptocurrency promoter and tax opponent whose history…
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Hunger, drought, disease: UN climate report reveals dire health threats
PARIS: Hunger, drought and disease will afflict tens of millions more people within decades, according to a draft UN assessment that lays bare the dire human health consequences of a warming planet. After a pandemic year that saw the world turned on its head, a forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…
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UK won’t extend deadline for EU citizens to apply to stay
LONDON: The British government won’t extend the June 30 deadline for European Union citizens in the U.K. to apply for permanent residency or risk losing their right to live and work in the U.K. Britain’s departure from the EU last year ended the automatic right of people from the bloc to settle in the U.K.,…