The Alvida star, 32, made the announcement on her social media, claiming that she and her daughter, Alaya, 4, were in isolation after she tested positive. “I would like to inform all my well wishers that I have tested positive for COVID-19,” she wrote. “My daughter and I have been in complete isolation and thankfully, Alhamdulillah have no severe symptoms,” she went …

BANGALORE: Autho­rities vowed to crack down on workers who went on a violent rampage at a Taiwanese-run iPhone factory in southern India over allegations of unpaid wages and exploitation, with 100 people arrested so far. The workers rioted on Saturday at Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing’s facility on the outskirts of Bangalore, India’s IT hub, with videos of the violence showing glass …

US reality TV stars Kim Kardashian, sister Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick received massive backlash and accused of cultural appropriation after their children performed a Maori haka on TikTok. The TV stars were slammed after Kourtney’s ex Scott Disick shared a video from a birthday party of their sons Mason and Reign Disick. In the video Kim Kardashian’s children North, Saint West, …

WASHINGTON: The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine began leaving the company’s Michigan factory on Sunday, ready to be injected into the arms of millions of the most vulnerable Americans as the global death toll topped 1.6 million. Doses will be shipped out in boxes containing dry ice that are capable of staying at -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit), the frigid temperature …

BEIJING: A confident-sounding Comm­unist Party of China spoke of a brighter future as it remembered the victims at a ceremony on Sunday on the 83rd anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. Over six weeks, Japanese troops raped and killed tens of thousands and by some estimates hundreds of thousands of people after conquering Nanjing, then the capital of China, on Dec …

RABAT: Jewish history and culture in Morocco will soon be part of the school curriculum — a “first” in the region and in the North African country, where Islam is the state religion. The decision “has the impact of a tsunami,” said Serge Berdugo, secretary general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Morocco. It “is a first in the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday categorically rejected terrorism-related insinuations of Indian external affairs minister and other political figures. “Regurgitating of baseless allegations does not turn them into truth. Nor does it wash away the fact of India’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan and master-minding of anti-Pakistan propaganda globally,” a spokesperson for the Foreign Office said in a statement issued here. …

BAKU: Azerbaijan anno­unced on Sunday that four of its troops had been killed in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region since a peace deal with Armenian separatists was agreed in early November. The defence ministry said a group of Armenian fighters remained in the mountainous province — breaking the terms of the Russian-brokered truce — and had recently launched fatal attacks on …

BRUSSELS: British and European negotiators were sent back to work on Sunday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen agreed to abandon their supposed make-or-break deadline. The pair had said last week they would decide whether an agreement was possible by the end of Sunday, but after a cross-Channel crisis call they agreed to “go …

KANDAHAR: Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce overnight fighting between Afghan forces and militants who attacked multiple checkpoints in the insurgent bastion of Kandahar, officials said on Sunday. Taliban militants attacked checkpoints in five districts surrounding the city of Kandahar, which Afghan forces countered with heavy air and ground assaults, the ministry of defence said in a statement. …