International

27-06-2021 RAMALLAH/ GAZA CITY: Angry demonstrators clashed with Palestinian security forces during a third day of protests in the occupied West Bank over the death of an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) who died while in PA custody. Hundreds gathered in the city of Ramallah, the headquarters of the …

27-06-2021 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Authorities have announced a hard two-week lockdown in Sydney and some surrounding areas to contain the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant sweeping Australia’s largest city. Sydney’s streets were nearly deserted on Saturday as more than five million people across the city were subjected to the movement …

26-06-2021 BEIJING: A skull preserved almost perfectly for more than 140,000 years in northeastern China represents a new species of ancient people more closely related to us than even Neanderthals and could fundamentally alter our understanding of human evolution, scientists announced on Friday. It belonged to a large-brained male in …

26-06-2021 Bureau Report KOLKATA/ MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake COVID-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in a second major city. Vaccination rates rose sharply this week after …

26-06-2021 BERLIN: A man armed with a long knife killed three people and seriously injured five others in an attack in the southern German city of Wuerzburg on Friday, authorities said. Police stopped and arrested the attacker by firing a bullet through his thigh. They said his injuries were not …

26-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that the armed group has the “right to react” if the United States still keeps troops in Afghanistan after September 11, when the withdrawal is due …

26-06-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man, was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison Friday. Chauvin, 45, was convicted in April of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck for up …

25-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ha met pro-India politicians from disputed Kashmir for the first time since he removed the region’s semi-autonomous status and imposed a widespread crackdown almost two years ago. Thousands of people, including mainstream and prominent Kashmiri leaders, were detained and …

25-06-2021 MIAMI: At least one person has died and dozens are missing after the collapse of a 12-storey residential building north of Miami, Florida, officials say. The number of people who have been located now stands at 102, while 99 are still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine-Cava. …

25-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Russian Defence Sergey Shoygu has warned of a civil war in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign troops. Speaking at the ninth Moscow Conference on International Security, Shoygu stressed upon the key role of Islamabad and Tehran to keep the Afghan groups …