12-08-2021 OTTAWA/ RIYADH: Canada is violating international law by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, according to a new report by rights groups Amnesty International Canada and Project Ploughshares, which are urging Ottawa to suspend all arms exports to Riyadh. Released on Wednesday, the report, titled ‘No Credible Evidence’: Canada’s Flawed …

11-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The Taliban has captured two more cities in Afghanistan, taking the number of provincial capitals the group has seized since Friday to eight. Farah city of the eponymous southwestern province and Pul-e-Khumri of the northern province of Baghlan …

11-08-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India sent a military plane to northern Afghanistan on Tuesday to pull out its citizens, officials said, as fighting raged between Afghan security forces and the advancing Taliban. The Indian government shut its consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest city in the north, and …

11-08-2021 NEW YORK: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned after a state investigation found he had sexually harassed 11 women, leading to mounting legal pressure and widespread calls for him to step down from fellow Democratic legislators and President Joe Biden. “Given the circumstances, the best way I can …

10-08-2021 BERLIN: English football clubs can be bought by criminals to launder the proceeds of their crimes, an Al Jazeera undercover investigation has revealed. The investigation delves into the murky world of club ownership in English football and exposes how rules are being abused. The Men Who Sell Football, by Al …

10-08-2021 JERUSALEM/ SHEIKH JARRAH/ WEST BANK: The struggle to save the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah from ethnic cleansing by state-backed Israeli settler organizations continued this week in the Israeli Supreme Court. During the court hearing, the judges proposed, what they framed as a ‘compromise’: the Palestinian residents …

10-08-2021 The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech may be less effective than Moderna’s against the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to two reports posted on medRxiv on Sunday ahead of peer review. In a study of more than 50,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Health System, researchers found …

10-08-2021 WASHINGTON: The Taliban are making swift gains in Afghanistan but President Joe Biden is standing firm on a US exit with limited options appearing to be on the table to reverse the insurgents’ momentum. The Taliban’s advances, including seizing six provincial capitals within days, may appear startling in their …

10-08-2021 NEW YORK/ KABUL: The UN’s agency for children, UNICEF, in a statement on Monday said that 27 children were killed and 136 more were wounded in ongoing fighting in Kandahar, Khost and Paktia provinces in the last 72 hours. The UN agency said it is “shocked by the rapid …

09-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The so-called present and former “Muslims rulers” of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) while those were / are really not only non-Muslims but also anti-Shia and pro-Jewish ( Takfiris, Yazidis and Wahabis) have not only been murdering, slaughtering, beheading, killing, …