International

22-10-2020 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei denounced recent normalization deals between a few Arab states and Israel, saying Muslim nations will never accept the humiliation of compromising with the Zionist regime. In a tweet late on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei added that Americans are badly mistaken …

22-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + BBC VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have “civil unions”. He made the comments, which observers say are his clearest remarks yet on gay relationships, in a documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky. “Homosexual people have a …

22-10-2020 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Almost 75% Americans fear violence and riots will break out after the US Presidential Elections 2020 are held, revealed a poll by The Independent on Wednesday. A JL Partners-Independent poll revealed how 72% of American respondents said they were very or quite concerned about post-election violence. Interestingly, …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ NANGARHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens Afghans have been killed and several injured in a stampede near a Pakistani consulate in eastern Afghanistan. The stampede occurred in a stadium in Jalalabad city where thousands of Afghans had gathered to secure visas from the consulate, officials …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: China’s official military newspaper has said that India has returned a Chinese soldier who had strayed across a contested de facto border in the western Himalayan region where both sides have been locked in a tense standoff. The soldier …

21-10-2020 BERLIN: A Muslim doctor was denied German citizenship after refusing to shake hands with the woman presenting his certificate, according to reports. The Lebanese man was set to become a German citizen after 13 years in the country, but he fell at the last hurdle after refusing to shake …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ ISTANBUL/ MELBOURNE: Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of late Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, has filed a lawsuit in the United States against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) over the journalist’s grisly murder. Cengiz and a rights group founded by …

20-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING: Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to inform the nation the date on which he plans to “throw the Chinese out of Indian territory”. Modi is set to address …

20-10-2020 GAZA/ JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: The arrival of a United Arab Emirates delegation in Israel has been slammed as “shameful” by Palestinian officials. The delegation – UAE’s first official visit to Israel – was welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Finance Minister Israel Katz at …

20-10-2020 ISTANBUL: A Jordanian national posing as a journalist received more than $400,000 to provide Emirati intelligence officers with details about Arab dissidents living in Turkey. During an 11-year-long espionage career, Jordanian national Mahmoud Ayesh Al Astal posed as a journalist to obtain information about Turkish domestic and foreign politics …