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Social media app TweetDeck began going behind a paywall on Tuesday, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it. X announced in July that TweetDeck, a popular programme that allows users to monitor multiple accounts and lists of users at once, would be available only to “verified” account …

PESHAWAR: Reminding its employees about restrictions on their online freedom, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday stopped them from sharing information about its matters on social media platforms. It also said officials required its prior permission to participate in any media activity. The establishment department informed the administrative secretaries, commissioners, deputy commissioners and heads of the attached departments through a …

BAGHDAD: A pair of Siberian tigers pant incessantly beside a pond at their zoo enclosure in the scorching summer heat of the Iraqi capital. Temperatures on Monday breached 50 degrees Celsius in Baghdad for the second day in a row — making life outdoors unbearable for both humans and animals. The orange, striped felines from far-eastern Russia are more suited …

DHAKA: Thousands of furious protesters chanting anti-government slogans marched in Bangladesh on Monday hours after a leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami died of a heart attack aged 83. Delwar Hossain Saye­dee, the Jamaat’s vice president, died in a prison hospital on Monday evening, just over a decade since his conviction by a controversial war crimes court triggered the deadliest political violence …

Hpakant: At least 36 people were feared dead at a jade mine in northern Myanmar after being swept into a lake by a huge landslide, a rescue worker and local journalist said on Monday. The accident happened on Sunday in the remote town of Hpakant, the centre of Myanmar’s secretive jade industry, where scavengers risk their lives picking through unstable …

LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blames the “criminal gangs” facilitating small boat Channel crossings for the “horrific” weekend deaths of at least six migrants, his spokesman said on Monday. French authorities said one person could still be missing. The identity of the six was still being investigated, the local maritime authorities Premar said on Monday. “Possibly” one person remained unaccounted …

A FORMER Israeli army general has said his country’s actions in the occupied West Bank territory were similar to the “apartheid” under Nazi Germany. In an interview with an Israeli broadcaster Kan Radio on Sunday, Amiram Levin, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces said the IDF is beginning to be “complicit in war crimes”. He said these actions were …

WASHINGTON: The US chief of naval operations stepped down on Monday, leaving an unprecedented three branches of the country’s military without confirmed leaders due to a standoff with a single senator over Pentagon abortion policy. Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican, is stalling the approval of more than 300 US military nominees to protest Defence Department efforts to assist troops who …

Rescuers searched on Tuesday for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in the Himalayas. Flooding and landslides are common and cause widespread devastation during India’s treacherous monsoon season, but experts …

Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday on charges of racketeering and a string of election crimes after a sprawling, two-year probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden in the US state of Georgia. The case — relying on laws typically used to bring down mobsters — is the fourth targeting the 77-year-old Republican this year and could …