International

07 July, 2019 KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan officials say a car bomb in central Afghanistan has killed thirteen people and wounded 72 others, many of them students attending a nearby school, PTV reported. Hasan Raza Yousafi, a provincial council member, says the target of Sunday’s suicide attack was an intelligence unit …

06 July, 2019 By SJA JAfri + BBC BEIJING/ UYGHUR: Thousands of Muslim children in China’s western Xinjiang region are being separated from their parents in what a new study calls a “systematic campaign of social re-engineering and cultural genocide”. The research sheds light on what happens to the children of “double-detained” parents …

06 July, 2019 RIDGECREST: For a second day, Southern California was rocked by a major earthquake Friday — this one a 7.1 magnitude — in the same area of the Mojave Desert near Ridgecrest where a 6.4 magnitude temblor caused damage on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake …

06 July, 2019 (Courtesy Tehran Times) TEHRAN: These days, apart from the tensions between Iran and United States, another event in south west Asia has attracted the attention of the countries’ officials, nations, and the media from all over the world. This new issue is “the Deal of the Century”; …

TEHRAN/JERUSALEM: (05 July, 2019): Iran’s foreign ministry in a statement called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to set up a fact-finding committee to probe into the fate of the abducted Iranian diplomats. The foreign ministry’s statement was issued on the 37th anniversary of the abduction of …

By SJA Jafri + Reuters COLOMBO/ RIYADH: (05 July, 2019): Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi school for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks. On April 21, …

By SJA Jafri +Agencies TEHRAN/ LONDON/ DUBAI: (5th July, 2019): British Royal Marines (UKRMs) in Gibraltar stormed an Iranian ship believed to have been carrying oil to Syria on Thursday, in possible violation of European Union (EU) sanctions on Syria. Gibraltar port and law enforcement agencies, aided by the British marines, detained the Grace 1 …

By SJA Jafri + Sky News LONDON/ DUBAI: (5th July, 2019): The scheduled hearing is said to be over who will have custody of their two young children now that the princess has left Dubai. A legal battle between the ruler of Dubai and his wealthy estranged wife is heading …

LOS ANGELES: (5th July 2019): The strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years prompted one city to declare a state of emergency Thursday, and shook residents from Las Vegas to Orange County. The quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, was centered near Ridgecrest, a community west of the Mojave Desert …

(Courtesy CNN) Intense heat waves have killed more than 100 people in India this summer and are predicted to worsen in coming years, creating a possible humanitarian crisis as large parts of the country potentially become too hot to be inhabitable. Heat waves in India usually take place between March and July and abate …