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It is good to be back after a hot summer. I expect you had a good Haj season. For those of you who were blessed to perform Haj this year, I hope you had a fulfilling and rewarding Haj.  Now, it is time to catch up with where I left you during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, with Part ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: The daughter of a British businessman thought to have been murdered in India said the body Punjab police have sent to Britain is not her father’s, BBC reported. Hotel owner Ranjit Singh Power was last seen at an airport in Amritsar on 8 May. Taxi driver Sukhdev Singh was charged with his murder after police said he had ... Read More »

TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, putting the breaks on moderates hoping to end Iran’s isolation after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in July. Khamenei, the highest authority in the Islamic Republic, already said last month there would be no more talks with the United ... Read More »

DAMASCUS: Russian warships in the Caspian Sea fired cruise missiles as Syrian government troops launched a ground offensive Wednesday in central Syria, in the first major combined air-and-ground assault since Moscow began its military campaign in the country last week. The missiles, launched from a Russian flotilla in the Caspian Sea, traveled 1,400 km over “unpopulated areas” to target militants, ... Read More »

JEDDAH: Local recruitment businesses are complaining that the Bangladesh government has failed to provide the 500,000 housemaids it had promised earlier this year, with only 2,000 employed in the Kingdom over the past six months. Mishari Al-Thufairi, chairman of the recruitment committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said it was clear that the Bangladesh government wants to ... Read More »

SANAA: Yemen’s Houthi group and the party of the former president have accepted a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman, paving the way for resuming negotiations to end months of conflict in the country. Both groups said on Wednesday that they had officially on Wednesday notified UN chief Ban Ki-moon that they were ready to ... Read More »

NEW YORK: Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a new line of Lumia smartphones, a new Surface Pro tablet and an updated version of its wearable fitness tracker, Microsoft Band, that will run on Windows 10, its latest operating system. Windows 10, launched in July, is part of Microsoft’s push to win a bigger share of the market for tablets and smartphones, ... Read More »

LUXEMBOURG: Facebook and other Internet giants could be barred from sending European citizens’ personal information to the US after the EU’s top court on Tuesday struck down a key transatlantic data deal in the wake of the Edward Snowden scandal. The landmark verdict stemmed from a David-and-Goliath case lodged by Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy campaigner, who challenged Irish authorities ... Read More »

STOCKHOLM: Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for determining that neutrinos have mass, a key piece of the puzzle in understanding the cosmos. “The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the Universe,” the Royal Swedish Academy ... Read More »

TORONTO: A former conservative premier of a Canadian province said Monday that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is “bad for the country” because some of his policies are borderline racist. Ex-Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams urged Conservatives not to vote for Harper, who has made the Islamic face veil a focus of the Oct. 19 election. Harper’s government lost ... Read More »

BRUSSELS: NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow’s explanation that its warplanes violated the air space of alliance member Turkey at the weekend by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence. With Russia extending its air strikes to include the ancient city of Palmyra, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he was losing ... Read More »

• 22 killed in 4 suicide bombings against government, Gulf troops in Aden • 11 Yemeni, 4 Emirati troops killed in Aden bombings • Yemeni PM says attacks will not stop government activity ADEN, Yemen: Daesh suicide bombers killed 22 people in attacks on Yemen’s government and its Gulf Arab coalition ally in the port city of Aden and on ... Read More »

CUTTACK: Seamer Albie Morkel led the way with three for 12 as South Africa thumped India by six wickets in the violence-hit second Twenty20 match in Cuttack on Monday to clinch the series. Leg-spinner Imran Tahir and seamer Chris Morris chipped in with two wickets each as India were skittled for a paltry 92 after being sent in to bat ... Read More »

KABUL: Afghan forces asked for a US airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz that killed 22 people, the top NATO commander in the country said Monday, after medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime. General John Campbell’s statement marks a departure from previous US military claims that the strike was carried out Saturday to protect American special forces ... Read More »

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday warned that Ankara would activate military rules of engagement irrespective of who violates its air space. “Our rules of engagement are clear whoever violates our air space,” Davutoglu told Haber-Turk television in an interview after Turkish jets intercepted a Russian fighter which violated Turkish air space near the Syrian border. “The Turkish ... Read More »