05-07-2020 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Thousands of people have gathered in New South Wales for peaceful Black Lives Matter rallies, calling for racial equality and action against Indigenous deaths in custody. Thousands rallied in Sydney on Sunday and hundreds more demonstrated in Newcastle. The Newcastle protest proceeded with authorization by the …
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05-07-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri + Agencies KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: The Pakistan Electronic Media Authority Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Friday suspended with “immediate effect” allegedly “pro-Shia” television channel 24NewsHD’s licence for “illegal transmission of news and current affairs content”. According to a press release issued by the regulatory authority, …
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05-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ LONDON/ HOUSTON: Over 212,000 new coronavirus cases were reported globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) – the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic. WHO said that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine …
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05-07-2020 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has vowed to defeat the “radical left” in a July Fourth Independence Day speech at the White House, condemning recent efforts to remove or rethink monuments to historical figures as attempts to destroy the US. Trump claimed without evidence that 99 percent of …
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World Health Organization, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that results from clinical trials of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients can be expected soon. He said, nearly five thousand 500 patients in 39 countries have been recruited into the solidarity trial so far. Mr. Ghebreyesus said …
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04-07-2020 LONDON/ CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Boris Johnson’s government will allow almost 3 million Hong Kong citizens to move to the U.K., risking a further escalation of tensions with China after it enforced a sweeping security law on the former British colony. Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, …
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation Challenge to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world class Apps in their respective categories. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged people of tech community to …
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04-07-2020 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Iranian investigators have determined the cause of a fire at the Natanz nuclear plant, a spokesman for Iran’s top security body said, while declining to immediately release details of the findings over “security reasons”. The National Security Council’s statement came as Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s civilian …
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04-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Ever since the government of India announced a ban on 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, several reports have claimed that TikTok plans to take legal action against the ban in India. However, the company has now refuted the claims …
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04-07-2020 BLACK HILLS/ WASHINGTON: BUS President Donald Trump will be an unwanted guest of the Sioux People as he begins his July Fourth celebration weekend with a massive event on Friday where masks and social distancing are not required as coronavirus cases spike across the country. Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wrote …
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