10-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance. India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional …

10-11-2021 SANA’A: A female fashion model was awarded five years of imprisonment over “drug abuse” and “prostitution”. However, the charges were rejected by her defence and condemned by rights groups. Entisar al-Hammadi, 20, was arrested in February at a checkpoint while on her way to a photo-shoot in the Yemeni …

10-11-2021 ADDIS ABABA: At least nine United Nations staff members and their dependents have been detained in the Ethiopian capital, the world body said. A UN spokesperson said on Tuesday that the UN had submitted a request to Ethiopia’s foreign ministry to immediately rUN security officials have visited the detained …

10-11-2021 BEIJING: China will not attend a regional security dialogue of stakeholder countries on Afghanistan to be hosted by India, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Tuesday. “Due to scheduling reasons, it is inconvenient for China to attend the meeting. We have already given our reply to the Indian …

09-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Almost all national and global terror organizations, clusters, parties, chapters and networks particularly Taliban (Khurasani, Sajna, Chichen Uzbick, Tajik, Arab and Ajam groups), Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at those have not only been working in Pakistan as …

09-11-2021 ABUJA: At least 26 schoolchildren have been killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger a local governor told media. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them seriously,” said Chaibou Aboubacar, mayor of Maradi …

09-11-2021 WARSAW: Poland says it has repelled an attempt by hundreds of migrants and refugees to enter the country from its eastern neighbor, Belarus, and said thousands of others were on the way. Warsaw said it had deployed additional soldiers, border guards and police in response to the situation along …

09-11-2021 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The Christchurch mosque attacker is considering appealing his whole-of-life jail term, said his lawyer Monday, adding that the attacker may argue that pleas in the wake of the 2019 shootings were obtained under duress. Self-proclaimed white supremacist Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 charges of …

08-11-2021 PARIS: France’s Catholic Church has agreed to financially compensate thousands of people who were sexually abused by priests in what the president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference hailed as a “decisive step”. Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said in a speech on Monday that the church has recognised its “institutional responsibility” …

08-11-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s army is holding a large-scale sea, land and air military drill, which comes shortly after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and United States Navy had a confrontation in the Sea of Oman over a seized oil tanker. The drill was launched on Sunday morning and is …