International

17-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ HOUSTON: The teacher who was beheaded in a street in France had received threats after showing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him/ PBUH) to his pupils, while the teacher was also involved in blasphemy and millions of Muslims …

17-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ AUCKLAND/ MELBOURNE: Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left Labour Party has won New Zealand’s general election after the prime minister’s opponent Judith Collins conceded defeat on Saturday with almost a quarter of the votes still to be counted. Labour had 49 percent of the votes, …

17-10-2020 PARIS: A history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him/ PBUH) was decapitated on a French street and police shot the suspected killer dead. Early on Saturday, a judicial source told AFP news agency that four people, including a …

16-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISTANBUL/ RIYADH/ MELBOURNE: Saudi Foreign Minister said normalization with Israel will eventually take place within the framework of a Palestinian-Israeli peace plan. In an online interview with the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, which was broadcast late Thursday on its website, Faisal …

16-10-2020 CHENNAI/ NEW DELHI: A 74-year-old Indian man, who was mistakenly declared dead and put in a mortuary freezer, has died days after being rescued. Balasubramanyam was declared dead by a doctor at a private hospital in Tamil Nadu on Monday and placed in a freezer. He remained there until …

16-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report AUCKLAND/ WELLINGTON/ MELBOURNE: Jacinda Ardern is on track for a second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister in elections that will take place on Saturday, thanks largely to her handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has helped burnish her image as an effective …

15-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Police on Thursday dropped a lengthy investigation into a journalist who exposed alleged war crimes by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. The Australian Federal Police said prosecutors found there were “reasonable prospects of conviction” in the case against Australian Broadcasting …

15-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A collision between two Afghan army helicopters evacuating wounded soldiers in southern Helmand province has left at least nine people dead. Some were members of a highly-trained elite Air Force mission. The incident early on Wednesday in Nawa district was apparently …

15-10-2020 KENYA (NAIROBI): The world’s response to global food insecurity has been “dangerously inadequate”, said Oxfam in a new report. The report, titled “Later Will Be Too Late”, states that in five countries – Yemen, DRC, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Somalia – where severe hunger continues to increase, donors have …

15-10-2020 NEW YORK: Amy Cooper, the white woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a dispute with a Black man in New York’s Central Park in May, made a second, previously unreported call in which she falsely claimed the man had “tried to assault her”, …