29-12-2020 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are the latest countries to report first cases of the new, highly contagious coronavirus variant detected in the UK. At least three cases were detected in travellers from the UK who arrived in Pakistan. India reported six people who travelled from …

29-12-2020 RIYADH: A Saudi terrorism court has sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, local media reported, despite international criticism of her detention and pressure to release her. State-linked Saudi news outlet Sabq reported on Monday that al-Hathloul had been found guilty …

28-12-2020 BEIJING/ WUHAN: A Chinese citizen journalist held since May for her live-stream reporting from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city. Zhang Zhan, a former …

28-12-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, on holiday in Florida, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans, after coming under pressure from legislators, but imposed a number of conditions. The White House confirmed the outgoing president had signed the bill shortly …

27-12-2020 WASHINGTON – Three people were killed and another three injured Saturday in the U.S. state of Illinois when a shooter opened fire at a bowling alley, police said. Rockford city police urged people on Twitter to stay away from the area near the Don Carter Lanes bowling alley, as …

27-12-2020 By SJA Jafri NASHVILLE: Suicide, car, truck and other types of explosions (as normal routine in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan) have not only been started in America but also planned for other non-Muslims, American and European countries while the testing of this blast series has already been completed, …

26-12-2020 ADDIS ABABA: The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 207 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross said. “Yesterday we buried 207 people who are the victims and 15 more from the attackers,” volunteer Melese Mesfin told Reuters …

26-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies INDIANAPOLIS/ NEW YORK/ HOUSTON: A black physician in Indianapolis has died with Covid-19 weeks after she accused a doctor of denying her proper medical care because of her race. In a video from her bed at Indiana University Hospital North, Susan Moore said she …

26-12-2020 ISTANBUL/ JERUSALEM: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at intelligence level continue between the two sides, but has also criticised Israeli policy towards Palestinians as “unacceptable”. Speaking to reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul, Erdogan said Turkey had …

25-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: Five months after sensational reporting that Pakistan was the origin of and responsible for half of Britain’s imported coronavirus cases, two influential UK newspapers have accepted that they published misleading and false headlines. A story was first published on July 26 …