International

31-05-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Mining giant Rio Tinto has apologised for blowing up 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves in Western Australia dating back to the last Ice Age. The Juukan Gorge caves, in the Pilbara region, were destroyed last Sunday as Rio Tinto expanded an iron ore project agreed with the …

31-05-2020 JERUSALEM: Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound has reopened to worshippers and visitors after more than two months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Council of Islamic Waqf, which oversees Muslim sites on the complex, cited the virus’s slowed local spread in lifting entry restrictions on Sunday but the …

30/31-05-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri MELBOURNE/ JANNAT-AL-BAQI (MADINA) Where Jannat-al-Baqi is situated? Jannat-ul-Baqi is the famous cemetery located right across the Masjid-al-Nabawi (The mosque of Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him/PBUH) in the Holy City of Madina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Children, wives and immediate relatives of Prophet …

29-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: A police station in Minneapolis has been set alight during a third night of protests over the death of an unarmed black man in custody on Monday. A police officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of George …

29-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The US National Guard has been deployed to Minneapolis after two nights of violent clashes following the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died on Monday and video showed him gasping for …

28-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: after an unarmed murder of a black man in “White American police custody, the clashes between protesters and police have raised for a second night in the US city of Minneapolis. Tear gas was fired by police, while …

28-05-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States of America (USA) has decided to end sanctions waivers allowing Russian, Chinese and European firms to continue work at certain Iranian nuclear sites, a US official and another source familiar with the matter told the Reuters News Agency …

27-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has ruled out pursuing charges against the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst or anyone else for her story revealing plans to extend the Australian Signals Directorate’s spying powers. The AFP deputy commissioner of investigations, Ian …

26-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will investigate the death of a black man in the US state of Minnesota after a video emerged showing a police officer kneeling on his neck. In the footage, the man believed to be …

26-05-2020 NEW YORK: A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her job with an investment firm. The man, described as an “avid birder”, was concerned the dog could …