12-04-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has abandoned its target of vaccinating nearly all the country’s 26 million people against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 after medical authorities changed their advice on vaccine use for the under 50s. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia would not set any new …

12-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: The UK government has added Pakistan to the list of 21 high-risk countries with unsatisfactory money laundering and terror financing controls. This list of 21 countries released by the UK Government replicates those countries listed by the Financial Action Task Force …

11-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A ‘Tika Utsav‘ or vaccine festival is being organized in the country from today to inoculate maximum number of eligible people against the coronavirus amid a worrying surge in cases. The mass vaccination program – which will be conducted from April 11-14 – …

11-04-2021 By SJA afri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: Pakistani Shia Muslims especially Karachi’s students, doctors, engineers, social workers, human rights activists, women, children even elderly and severely sick patients are being faced discriminations and racism since a long but neither they themselves complaint to anyone nor the ‘Britain Authorities’ …

11-04-2021 Bureau Report + BBC MYANMAR/ NEW DELHI: Myanmar nationals have been fleeing the country amid violence against civilians in the aftermath of a military coup. Many who live close to the border are seeking refuge in India, reports BBC Hindi’s Raghvendra Rao. It was on her third attempt that …

11-04-2021 TEHRAN: Iran began feeding gas to cascades of new, advanced centrifuges and unveiled dozens of “achievements” to mark its national nuclear technology day in an effort to show its nuclear program is peaceful. President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday launched several projects across the country via video link in Tehran …

11-04-2021 DUBLIN/ LONDON: The Irish Prime Minister, Micheal Martin, warned against a “spiral back” into sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland on Saturday, after a week-long streak of unrest continued with 14 police injured in the latest night of clashes. Disorder sparked in pockets of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland …

11-04-2021 LONDON: Monarchs, heads of state and prime ministers across the world, past and present, have sent heartfelt tributes following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. Europe’s royal households and Commonwealth leaders alike praised his exceptional public service. Joe Biden described the duke …

MYANMAR: More than 80 people have been killed by Myanmar security forces in a crackdown on a protest in the city of Bago, activists say. The military is reported to have taken away the bodies of those killed, and the true number of deaths may never be accurately established. Witnesses …

11-04-2021 ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has ordered a speedy investigation after a veteran crime journalist was shot dead yesterday. Giorgos Karaivaz was shot at least six times with a silenced weapon by two men on a moped outside his home in Athens. His death “shocked us all,” said …