International

12-03-2021 DAKAR: Scores of French-owned businesses across the Senegalese capital, Dakar, are still coming to terms with the devastation of smashed windows, broken liquor bottles and burned-out premises after days of nationwide anti-government protests in the West African country. French supermarkets, petrol stations and mobile phone booths were torched and …

12-03-2021 DOHA/ MOSCOW/ DAMASCUS/ ANKARA: Turkey, Russia and Qatar are making a joint attempt to promote a political solution to Syria’s 10-year conflict, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. “Today we launched a new trilateral consultation process,” Cavusoglu said on Thursday after talks in Doha with Russian and Qatari foreign …

12-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has ordered a ban on the TikTok social media platform over alleged “obscene content”, the second time the app has been banned in the South Asian country in less than six months. The Peshawar High Court’s Chief Justice …

12-03-2021 DAMASCUS/ ALEPPO/IDLIB: Attacks on rural Aleppo that caused severe damage to oil facilities have been described as “state terrorism” by the Syrian opposition, in what is a possible message to Turkish-backed forces in the region. The deadly attacks last Friday, reportedly launched by Russia from warships and by forces …

12-03-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: In the latest development over the George Floyd case, a judge in Minnesota on Thursday added a new murder charge against Derek Chauvin, the police officer on trial for the racially-motivated death. Chauvin, 44, already faces charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death …

11-03-2021 By SJA Jafri LONDON/ NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Once again, another claim of Press Media of India (PMI) regarding the world’s worst British policing system has been proved while the reporting in this connection is not only being acknowledged across the globe but also the entire British judiciary as well …

11-03-2021 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON: One year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Vaccine Alliance is warning that developing countries are facing critical shortages of oxygen and medical supplies to cope with COVID-19 cases. Yet, the majority has been unable to administer a single dose of a …

11-03-2021 NAYPYITAW/ MYANMAR (BURMA): 10 more people have been killed and injured in Myanmar after security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters, according to witnesses and local media, as Myanmar’s military government accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi of accepting illegal payments. The violence comes after the United Nations …

11-03-2021 WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has given final approval to a $1.9 trillion emergency spending measure designed to mitigate the financial toll of the coronavirus pandemic, putting the United States economy on a path to recovery. The House voted largely along party lines, 220-211, to send the legislation, …

11-03-2021 MANAMA: Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority, warned about the death of political dissidents in the Al Khalifa regime’s prisons and demanded their immediate release. Sheikh Qassim was quoted by the Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website as making the remarks in a series of tweets …