17-09-2021 BEIJING: A group of more than 40 Muslim-American civil rights organizations in the United States announced on Thursday a campaign to boycott Hilton Worldwide over what they said is the corporation’s plan to construct a hotel on the site of a Uighur mosque bulldozed by authorities in China’s Xinjiang region. …
Read More »French troops kill ISIS Head in Greater Sahara: Macron
16-09-2021 PARIS: The head of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS also known as ISIL and Daesh) in the Greater Sahara, who was wanted for deadly attacks on US soldiers and foreign aid workers, has been killed in an operation by French troops. Adnan Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi was “neutralized …
Read More »Pakistan calls for world to ‘engage’ with Taliban Govt
16-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national security adviser has called on the world to “engage” with the Taliban’s caretaker government in Afghanistan or risk a return to the instability that characterized the group’s last era in power three decades ago. In …
Read More »‘Israeli intelligence torturing Palestinian prisoners’
16-09-2021 OCCUPIED WESR BANK: Two of the four re-arrested Palestinian political prisoners have told their lawyers they are being subjected to physical and mental abuse and torture by Israeli interrogators, in the first meeting they had with them since being taken into custody last week. Lawyers Khaled and Ruslan Mahajneh …
Read More »America tells Pakistan not to recognize Taliban Govt
15-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRUSSELS/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US has made it clear to Pakistan that it does not want Islamabad to recognise the Taliban government until it doesn’t give women their due rights and allows Afghans who want to leave the country, to …
Read More »China’s ambassador banned from UK Parliament
15-09-2021 LONDON/ BEIJING: China’s ambassador to the UK has been told he cannot come to Parliament while sanctions remain in place against a number of MPs and peers. Zheng Zeguang was due to attend a Commons reception on Wednesday, hosted by the all-party group on China but after protests, Speaker …
Read More »US mosque bomber sentenced to 53 years in prison
15-09-2021 WASHINGTON: A court has sentenced the transgender woman, who led a militia called The White Rabbits, to 53 years in prison for bombing a Minnesota mosque in 2017, the Justice Department announced. Emily Claire Hari, 50, was convicted last year on five counts including the bombing, destruction of religious …
Read More »ISIS attacks Nigerian prison; 240 inmates freed
14-09-2021 ABUJA: Heavily ISIS’s armed men raided a jail in south-central Nigeria and after blowing up the perimeter fenc, freed 240 inmates, almost everyone in the prison. The attackers started a gun battle with guards late on Sunday at the medium-security prison at Kabba in Kogi state, southwest of the …
Read More »Iraq needs Iranian gas & electricity: PM Al-Kadhimi
14-09-2021 TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa al-Kadhimi expressed his country’s willingness to work with Iranian companies in the process of reconstruction, saying Iraq is in need of gas and electricity imported from Iran. In a meeting with Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, held in Tehran on Sunday, …
Read More »‘Taliban breaking promises to women’
14-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban are breaking their promises on women’s rights and inclusivity in Afghanistan, the UN rights chief said on Monday, as she also criticised violence against protesters and alleged reprisal killings. Michelle Bachelet said there were “credible allegations” …
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