Would-be Johnson successors ready for race to become British PM
BSS :Would-be successors to scandal-ridden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were readying on Friday for what will be a prolonged battle, the day after an...
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Australia offers fourth Covid shot to over 30
BSS :Australia will offer a fourth Covid-19 vaccine to everyone over 30, health authorities said, as hospitals bulged with patients in a winter wave of...
World leaders shocked at shooting of former Japanese PM
News Desk :World leaders delivered messages of shock and support over the shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday. His death was...
Ten Argentines sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes under dictatorship
BSS :An Argentine court on Wednesday sentenced 10 former members of the military and police to life in prison for crimes committed during the South...
HK suspends ‘not effective’ Covid flight ban
BSS :Hong Kong’s new government on Thursday suspended a longstanding flight route ban that penalised airlines for bringing in corona virus cases and severely impeded...
MI5, FBI chiefs warn over China in rare joint address
BSS :The heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Wednesday about China’s commercial espionage thrust in the West, in a rare joint...
White House communications director quits
BSS :US President Joe Biden’s communications director is quitting, the White House said on Wednesday, the latest in a number of departures of high-ranking officials...
Iran media says foreign diplomats arrested
BSS :Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrested several foreign diplomats including a Briton, accusing them of “spying”, the Fars news agency and state television said on Wednesday....
OPEC secretary general Barkindo dies unexpectedly at 63
BSS/AFP : The Secretary General of the OPEC oil cartel, Nigeria’s Mohammad Barkindo, has died unexpectedly at the age of 63, the Nigerian National Petroleum...
Pakistan climbing season reaches new heights
BSS : Pakistan is enjoying a bumper climbing season with around 1,400 foreign mountaineers bidding to scale its lofty peaks-including hundreds on the 8,611-metre (28,251-feet)...
Maskless pilgrims launch largest Hajj of Covid era
BSS : The biggest Hajj pilgrimage since the corona virus pandemic began kicks off Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of mostly maskless worshippers expected to...
Ukraine estimates cost of reconstruction at $750b
BSS :Ukraine told an international conference Monday that it will cost an estimated $750 billion to rebuild the war-shattered country, a task President Volodymyr Zelensky...