18-11-2021 KHARTOUM: Thousands protested in Sudan’s capital Wednesday against last month’s coup, chanting “no to military power” in defiance of a crackdown that has already claimed 24 lives. Several rallies broke out across Khartoum, even though telephone lines were cut and internet services have been disrupted since the October 25 …

17-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ COLOMBO/ ISLAMABAD: Australia has released four (4) refugees after ten (10) years. The detainees were of different countries were held in altered immigration centers without any charge or convection…..It’s the real face of Australia…..It’s the so-called and self-declared civilized nation…..It’s …

17-11-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ NEW DELHI: Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency. The supplies put India at risk of sanctions from the United States under a …

17-11-2021 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations says it has released emergency funds to help provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and protection to civilians caught up in Ethiopia’s spiraling conflict. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Monday that he had released a total of $40m aimed at scaling up emergency operations …

17-11-2021 BEIJING: China is battling its biggest COVID-19 outbreak caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant, with some areas restricting entry by people from a northeastern city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country in the past week. A total of 1,308 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed …

17-11-2021 CANBERRA/ DOHA: A group of Australian women who were strip-searched and examined at Doha airport are suing authorities in Qatar. The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found in a bin at Hamad Airport in October 2020. …

16-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: A contingent of some 3,000 Sikh pilgrims will arrive in Lahore via the Wagah border crossing to attend the celebrations for Baba Guru Nanak’s 552nd birth anniversary in Kartarpur. During their stay in Pakistan, the Sikh pilgrims would pay obeisance …

16-11-2021 KAMPALA: At least three people have been killed and 33 others injured in twin suicide bombings in Uganda’s capital Kampala, police said, the latest in a string of attacks over the past month. “So far 33 are injured and five are critically injured,” police spokesman Fred Enanga told a …

16-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NAYPYIDAW/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from a prison in Myanmar, three days after he was sentenced to 11 years behind bars for what Yangon said were breaches of immigration and “terrorism” laws, his employer and a former United States …

16-11-2021 LONDON/ LIVERPOOL: The United Kingdom has raised the national terror threat level after a blast near a hospital. Police were called on Sunday morning about reports of an explosion involving a taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Photos showed a vehicle in flames near the hospital’s main entrance. A man …