International

04 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BEIJING/ WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: China reacted angrily after the US House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the Trump administration to toughen its response to Xinjiang, where the more than one million Muslims, mostly ethnic Uighurs, are being held in “re-education” camps. In a …

04 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + TNA WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ MELBOURNE: US House Democrats accused Donald Trump of abusing his office for political gain and trying to obstruct the Ukrainegate investigation, in a highly anticipated report that paves the way for articles of impeachment and a trial in the Senate. …

04 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has repealed a medical evacuation law for asylum seekers and refugees detained in its so-called offshore processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru citing concerns about security, and triggering an angry response from opposition politicians and refugee advocates. With the upper …

03 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri SANA’A/ MELBOURNE: Amnesty International says more than four million people living with disabilities in Yemen lack access to basic care. The rights group says disabled people are most at risk because of the war between Houthi rebels and the UN-recognized government, which is backed by …

03 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE: The start of Australia’s meteorological summer was marked by out-of-season snow that blanketed ski fields and alpine regions over the mountains in the southeast. For the second day in a row, Victoria’s Mt Hotham received significant snowfall. Hotham Alpine Resort reported that approximately 30cm …

Hyderabad Dec 2 (PMI): The members of the Majma-e-Olama wo Khutaba have jointly expressed their feelings about the current situation of “Iraq” and released a statement that the anti-Islamic sources have faced defeat on various occasions in Western Asia and Middle East in different parts particularly in Iran, Lebanon and …

02 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies VALLETTA/ MELBOURNE: Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said he will resign next month amid growing calls for his departure over the scandal surrounding the murder of prominent anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. In a televised address to the nation on Sunday, Muscat said …

02 December, 2019 WASHINGTON: The White House said on Sunday that it would not participate in the first impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee as Democrats prepared to approve a report making the case for President Donald Trump’s removal from office. The Democratic majority on the House Intelligence Committee …

29 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police have confirmed a stabbing attack near London Bridge, saying it believes a number of people are injured. “Police were called at 1:58pm to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge,” the police force said on Twitter. “A man has been …

29 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri + AJ LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to offer an outright apology for Islamophobic comments he made in 2018, which led to a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes. On Friday morning, as he fielded questions from listeners on LBC radio station in London, …