08-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ NEW DELHI: Australia says it will secure almost 85 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine if two promising trials prove successful. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country had struck two deals that would allow free doses to be rolled out in 2021 if they …

07-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies RIYADH/ WASHINGTON/ ISTANBUL: A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences over dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder a final ruling in the case that saw the Washington Post columnist killed and dismembered by a Saudi hit squad. The court handed 20-year …

07-09-2020 MINKS: Tens of thousands of people marched through Minsk calling on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to step down in mass demonstrations that showed no sign of abating nearly a month after an election his opponents say was rigged. Columns of protesters defied a government warning not to march, waving …

07-09-2020 DHAKA: A suspected gas pipeline explosion at a mosque in Bangladesh killed 17 people and injured dozens as worshippers were about to end their prayers, officials said on Saturday. The blast, which fire service officials suspect was caused by a leak from a gas pipeline, occurred on Friday night …

07-09-2020 TEHRAN/ DAMASCUS/ BAGHDAD/ AIN AL-HELWEH (LEBANON) Leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Hamas group met to discuss diplomatic normalization between Israel and Arab countries, the movement said. On Sunday, Hamas chief Ismail Haniya was given a hero’s welcome at Ain al-Helweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. Hezbollah-run …

06-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: US President Donald Trump has demanded the Fox News Network fire its national security correspondent after she confirmed claims he had disparaged the military – a bombshell that has dogged him for two days. Trump came under …

06-09-202 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis protested outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and into early Sunday, pressing ahead with a months-long campaign demanding that the embattled Israeli leader resign. The protests, now in their 11th week, came as Israel is coping with record levels …

06-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India and China said that they had agreed to work towards reducing tensions along their contested border, following a meeting of the defense ministers of the nuclear-armed Asian giants. Both sides deployed additional forces along the frontier …

05-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: The criminal dramatization of Australia’s present rulers is not only being continued traditionally but also despite the wishes of millions of Aussies and beside learning a basic and primary childhood lesson from Pakistan regarding overcoming coronavirus pandemic neither the Liberal and …

05-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW/ BEIJING: The Defense Ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday, government officials said, the highest level face-to-face political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May. Both …