International

21-04-2021 ATHENS/ LONDON: All six Premier League teams involved in the European Super League have formally withdrawn from the competition. Manchester City was the first club to pull out after Chelsea had signaled their intent to do so by preparing documentation to withdraw. The other four sides – Arsenal, Liverpool, …

India and US will coordinate their efforts for stability in Afghanistan. US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Anthony Blinken have agreed that the two nations will coordinate on efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan. Washington and NATO have announced …

20-04-2021 N’DJAMENA: Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died suddenly in clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said on state TV. On Monday, provisional results from the election on 11 April projected he would win a sixth term in office, with 80% …

20-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic that metal parts have begun to melt. “We are working around the clock at 100% capacity to cremate bodies …

20-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE: Deliberate insincerity, intentional irresponsibility and criminal negligence of concerned authorities especially officials of health department are the basic causes of spreading gastro outbreaks across Australia while the bureaucracy, politicians, so-called health experts, medical intellectuals and pundits those are accountable for country’s health and …

20-04-2021 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled a planned trip to India, scheduled to take place next week, due to the current coronavirus situation in India, Johnson’s office said. Johnson had already postponed the trip once from January, when COVID-19 infections were high …

19-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for Muslim-majority countries to band together to lobby Western governments to criminalize the insulting of Islam’s prophet, as negotiations between his government and a far-right anti-blasphemy religious group continues. In a televised address to …

19-04-2021 NEW YORK/ BEIJING: China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, with Beijing responsible for “policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in …

19-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said Tehran would welcome negotiations with Riyadh. Asked about recent reports of direct talks between Iranian and Saudi officials in Baghdad, Khatibzadeh said at a press conference on Monday that he would not make …

19-04-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON: Tearful reunions filled Auckland airport on Monday as residents from Australia were able to travel freely to New Zealand for the first time in more than a year. The long-awaited Australia-New Zealand travel bubble means visitors no longer need to quarantine on arrival. Thousands of …