30-03-2021 Bureau Report YANGON/ MYANMAR: After the bloodiest day since last month’s military coup with 114 deaths on Saturday, security forces opened fire at a funeral Sunday, witnesses said. On Monday, a man was killed and several were wounded when security forces fired in a Yangon neighborhood, the Democratic Voice …
Read More »Historic gathering in Kabul calls for inclusion of women
30-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Over a thousand civil society activists gathered in Kabul on Monday to call for the inclusion of women, youth, the disabled and the media in the Afghan peace process. More than 1,300 representatives assembled in the open at the Chihilsitoon Garden …
Read More »Stranded ship in Suez Canal re-floated
29-03-2021 CAIRO: The giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week was fully floated on Monday and traffic in the waterway resumed. According to witnesses, the Ever Given container ship was moving and a shipping tracker and Egyptian TV showed it positioned in the centre of …
Read More »French company convicted of manslaughter over weight-loss pill
29-03-2021 PARIS: A French drugmaker has been found guilty of manslaughter and deception over a weight-loss pill which is on the market for 33 years and blamed for hundreds of deaths. One of the country’s biggest health scandals came to a conclusion in a Paris court on Monday as the …
Read More »Anti-ISIL operation at al-Hol camp in Syria
29-03-2021 DAMASCUS: Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria have arrested nine people, including suspected members of ISIL (ISIS/ Daesh/ Taliban/ al-Qaeda/ Lashkar-e-Jhangvi), during a security sweep in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of fighters. The campaign by nearly 5,000 of the US-backed Kurdish-led forces came on the heel …
Read More »70 more Shia killed as Mozambique attack survivors evacuated
29-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MAPUTO/ PALMA (MOZAMBIQUE): Daesh (Jihadists/ Taliban/ ISIS/ ISIL/ al-Qaeda) kidnapped, beheaded and disabled 70 more ‘defenceless’ and ‘innocent’ Shia Muslims including foreigners and visitors in Mozambique but neither the world media nor any so-called well educated, modern and extraordinary civilized state especially America, Canada, …
Read More »Deadly protests spread in Bangladesh, attack on Hindu Temples
28-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies COX’S BAZAR/ DHAKA/ ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the wake of a visit by Indian Prime Minister …
Read More »Woman dead, 6 injured after stabbings at library in Canada
28-03-2021 NORTH VANCOUVER, CANADA: Police on Saturday took into custody a lone attacker who allegedly killed a woman and injured multiple people at a public library located in the suburbs of Vancouver. The attack occurred in the early afternoon and investigators appealed for witnesses, especially those who had shot videos …
Read More »Suicide attack rocks Indonesia church, dozens wounded
28-03-2021 MAKASSAR/ JAKARTA: Two suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country’s national police said. The explosion took place on Sunday at a time the congregation was inside the church …
Read More »“Two financiers of terrorists arrested in Australia on PMI tips”
28-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ BRISBANE/ KARACHI: Grudgingly but cravingly and secretly, at last, the Australian regime and ‘authorities’ especially Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and Special Forces have started to deem the ‘reporting’ of Press Media of India (PMI) and one of world’s most …
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