16-09-2020 PHILADELPHIA: Despite cautionary notes sounded by some US public health officials about that accelerated timeline, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could be three or four weeks away, Trump, speaking at a town hall hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia, defended his handling of …

16-09-2020 LONDON: Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic. “The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,” the Caribbean island nation’s government said. It aims to complete the process in time for the 55th anniversary of …

16-09-2020 JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ DUBAI/ MANAMA: The Israeli military struck Hamas militant sites in the Gaza Strip early in response to rocket fire toward Israel the previous night that coincided with the signing of normalization agreements The Israeli military struck Hamas militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response …

16-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ RIYADH/ ISTANBUL: Dozens of Western countries called on Tuesday for the release of women activists detained in Saudi Arabia and for those behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be brought to justice. At least a dozen prominent women’s rights activists …

15-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + (Monitoring Desk) DOHA/ ISLAMABAD/ JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: A high-ranking Qatari official says Doha will not follow in the footsteps of neighboring Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalize relations with Israel, emphasizing that Doha will not take such a measure as long as the …

15-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies RAWALPINDI-ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DOHA/ WASHINGTON: American Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to discuss Afghan Reconciliation Process among other matters, the military’s media wing. Khalilzad arrived in Islamabad earlier today and …

15-09-2020 WASHINGTON: The administration of United States President Donald Trump can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the US, an appeals court has ruled. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted a preliminary …

14-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies  WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: An Israeli court handed a Jewish settler three life sentences on Monday for murdering a Palestinian toddler and his parents in an arson attack on their home in the occupied West Bank. Amiram Ben-Uliel, 25, was sentenced by the Lod court …

14-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A man is in an induced coma after he was allegedly struck by a police vehicle and kicked in the head by an officer during his arrest in Melbourne’s north yesterday. Video shows a group of six police officers pinning the man to the ground in …

14-09-2020 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT/ TEHRAN: Suspected Israeli air strikes in eastern Syria on Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said. The raids against militant positions south of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian …