04-04-202 AMMAN: The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah II says he has been placed under house arrest and accused the kingdom’s “ruling system” of corruption, incompetence and harassment. Prince Hamzah bin Hussein’s videotaped statement on Saturday came after Jordan’s military denied reports of the former crown prince’s arrest, but said …

04-04-202 CAIRO: A grand parade will see 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies in specially designed capsules transported across the capital Cairo to a new museum home. The convoy will transport 18 kings and four queens on Saturday – mostly from the New Kingdom – from the Egyptian Museum in central …

04-04-202 STUTTGART: Thousands of people rallied on Saturday in Stuttgart to protest against coronavirus restrictions, as the country mulls tightening curbs in the wake of an intensifying third wave of COVID-19. The protesters, few of whom were wearing face masks, marched from the city centre to a main square in …

‘Jasmeen Kaur’s body will send back to India from Australia’ 03-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ADELAIDE/ MELBOURNE: Family and friends of a young woman whose body was found in a shallow grave in the South Australian outback have held a memorial at the site to remember her. Jasmeen …

03-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MOGADISHU/ CANBERRA/ ISLAMABAD: Al Shabaab militants attacked two military bases belonging to the Somali National Army early on Saturday morning, witnesses and the militants said. Al Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda (ISIS / ISIL / Taliban / Daesh) is made up of …

03-04-2021 PARIS/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: United States and Iranian officials will go to Vienna next week in a bid to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers, however, they will not hold direct talks, diplomats said Friday. Even without face-to-face talks, which Tehran has ruled out, the presence …

03-04-2021 WASHINGTON: After the deadly January 6 insurrection, the US Capitol became a fortress. On Friday, when some, but not all, of those security procedures were still in place, a knife-wielding assailant allegedly rammed into Capitol police officers with his car. The incident reinvigorates questions about how to protect the Capitol, and …

02-04-2021 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel would benefit the region, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said, adding that a potential deal “depends to a large extent on the progress of the peace process”. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, during an interview …

02-04-2021 TAIPEI: At least 36 people were reported killed and dozens injured after a packed express train derailed in a tunnel in eastern Taiwan on Friday morning, authorities said, in the worst train crash on the island in at least 40 years. The transport ministry said some 40 injured passengers …

02-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India opened up its coronavirus inoculation program to people above 45 on Thursday as infections surge, which will delay vaccine exports from the world’s biggest maker of the drug. The country, with the most number of reported COVID-19 cases after the United States and Brazil, …