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Pakistan on Sunday welcomed the announcement that countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters. After tense negotiations that ran through the night, the Egyptian COP27 presidency released the final text for a deal and simultaneously called a plenary session to quickly gavel …

The Fifa World Cup kicks off in Qatar on Sunday in a high-stakes event for the tiny nation which has faced a barrage of criticism and staked its reputation on delivering a smooth tournament, the first held in the Middle East and the most expensive in history. In a show of Gulf solidarity, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was …

Donald Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated on Saturday after the platform’s new owner Elon Musk ran a poll in which a narrow majority of voters supported the move. The poll results come days after the former US president announced another White House bid. Trump was banned from the platform early last year for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a …

Turkey announced early on Sunday that it had carried out air strikes against outlawed Kurdish militant bases across northern Syria and Iraq, which it said were being used to launch “terrorist” attacks on its soil. The offensive codenamed Operation Claw-Sword comes after a deadly blast in central Istanbul last Sunday which killed six people and wounded 81, with Turkey blaming a banned …

DUBAI: Kuwait on Wednesday put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the country. The state-run KUNA news agency described those executed as all facing premeditated murder and other charges in the country. It identified those killed as three Kuwaiti men, one Kuwaiti woman, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman. Kuwait said the …

OSLO: At Oslo’s Viking Ship museum, a team of engineers has begun work to ensure a new home being built nextdoor does not prove fatal for three vessels that have survived for a millennium or more. The new building is necessary to protect the wooden ships, two of which date from the ninth century and the third from the tenth …

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait put seven people to death for murder on Wednesday, the public prosecutions service said, as the first executions since 2017 went ahead despite appeals from a prominent rights group. One Ethiopian woman and one Kuwaiti woman were among those hanged, along with three Kuwaiti men, a Syrian and a Pakistani, a statement said. The executions are the …

ISTANBUL: An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison in a retrial, local media reported. Adnan Oktar led television programmes surrounded by women wearing lots of makeup and little clothes as he preached creationism and conservative values. Last year, the 66-year-old was sentenced to …

AFTAB Amin Poonawalla, who is in custody for the murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, will undergo a ‘narco-analysis test’ after Delhi police officials informed a court that the prime suspect was trying to deceive the investigators through “misleading statements”. According to Hindustan Times, a local court granted permission to the police to conduct the analysis which involves administration of …

NEW YORK: Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk has asked staff to choose by Thursday between being “extremely hardcore” and working intense, long hours, or losing their jobs, according to an internal memo published by several US media. The Tesla tycoon has come under fire for radical changes at the social media company, which he bought for $44 billion late last …