International

14 January, 2020 PARIS/ LONDON/ TEHRAN: European powers have triggered a formal dispute mechanism over Iran’s breaches of key parts of the 2015 nuclear deal – a move that could spell its end. Iran has gradually lifted all limits on its production of enriched uranium, which can be used to …

14 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ WASHINGTON: Smoke from the massive bushfires in Australia will soon circle the Earth back to the nation, says Nasa. Massive infernos have raged along the nation’s east coast for months, pushing smoke across the Pacific. Nasa said plumes from blazes around …

13 January, 2020 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: Saudi servicemen training at US military bases will be expelled from United States in the aftermath of a Pentagon review prompted by the deadly December 6 shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer at an American naval base in Florida, CNN reported on Saturday. Quoting unnamed sources, CNN reported …

12 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: Britain must be prepared to fight future wars without the United States as its principal ally, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned. Wallace said the increasing withdrawal of America from international leadership under Donald Trump meant Britain needed to …

12 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed regret over his handling of the bushfire crisis ravaging the country. The PM has faced mounting criticism over his government’s response to the bushfires and its climate policy. Since September, bushfires have killed at least …

09 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The US says it is “ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations” with Iran following the countries’ exchange of hostilities. In a letter to the UN, the US justified the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani as an act …

09 January, 2020 By Najaf Ali Skoukat TEHRAN/ NEW DELHI: Iran’s one of the most credible, authentic and believable media outlets known as Tasnim News Agency (TNA) reported that the entire American Defence System remain failed to intercept even trace through radar those Iranian missiles which fired at US airbases …

08 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri KYIV/ TEHRAN: A Ukrainian airliner with 180 passengers and crew on board has crashed near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Iranon Wednesday. According to the Iranian media, the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near Parand, a suburb southwest of capital Tehran shortly after take-off. There …

08 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Massilia Aili – Al-Jazeera) MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: With more than 7,000 men, women and children in migrant detention centers across Australia the country has earned notoriety for its tough border protection policies, which have been condemned for breaching international human rights. Behind the barricades are …

08 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: It seems that the proper war between America and Iran has not only been started since last late night but in its first attack Iranian ballistic missiles have also destroyed at least two main US military bases in Iraq …