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SYDNEY: Authorities on Saturday urged thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state to evacuate as bushfires that have destroyed at least 30 homes continued to threaten rural towns. More than 35 bushfires were burning on Saturday in Queensland, with the town of Tara, about 890 kilometres north of state capital Brisbane, among areas most at risk, according to fire authorities. …

DHAKA: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at huge crowds of Bangladesh opposition supporters on Saturday to break up a giant protest against the prime minister, with an officer and a protester killed in several hours of violent clashes in central Dhaka. More than 100,000 supporters of two major Bangladesh opposition parties rallied to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina …

MOSCOW: A Ukrainian drone crashed into a nuclear waste storage facility at the Kursk power plant in western Russia on Thursday, damaging its walls, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, calling on other governments to condemn “an act of nuclear terrorism”. A ministry statement said Ukraine must have known that its actions could have caused a full-scale nuclear catastrophe that …

KARAGANDA: Kaza­khs­tan said on Saturday 32 people died in a fire at an ArcelorMittal mine, with over a dozen still missing in the worst such disaster in years, prompting the nationalisation of the company’s local affiliate. President Kassym-Jom­art Tokayev ordered his government to take control of the Kazakh branch of the company after the fire which followed a methane explosion …

CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Saturday “Israeli obstacles”, including truck inspection procedures, were impeding the prompt delivery of aid to Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. “The trucks must be inspected at the Israeli Nitzana crossing before they head to the Rafah crossing on a journey that takes a distance of 100km before they actually …

LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied in cities across Europe, the Middle East and Asia on Saturday to show support for the Palestinians. In London, which saw one of the biggest marches, aerial footage showed large crowds marching through the centre of the British capital to demand the government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak call for a halt to …

UNITED NATIONS: “A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in front of our eyes,” UN Secretary General António Guterres warned on Saturday as another night of heavy bombing flattened Gaza and virtually cut it off from the outside world. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution by 120 to 14 votes calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza. But even …

JERUSALEM: Hours after Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that the near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza amid Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Palestinian territory risks providing cover for mass atrocities, the Jewish state army warned the residents of the besieged enclave on Saturday that the area was now a “battlefield”. “To the residents of the Gaza Strip: The Gaza governorate (Gaza City) has …

At least one person was killed and several were injured in a series of explosions at a convention centre in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Sunday where a Christian group was holding a prayer meeting. The incident took place during a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention at the centre in Kalamassery, about 10 kilometres (6.21 miles) northeast of Kochi. The …

Opening Ceremony of Professor Ishfaq Ahmad’s Book The Perfect Human” at the University of Texas By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada Texas, USA: The Main Library of the University of Texas Arlington hosted a book launch event for “The Perfect Human: Muhammad (PBUH), the Last Prophet and Messenger of God,” authored by Professor Ishfaq Ahmad. The event’s chief guest was Dr. …