International

05 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + News Desk KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Another deadly attack of Taliban kills at least 10 people near American embassy in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul but neither the ‘peace deal’ could finalized yet nor all Taliban groups especially anti-Pakistan Taliban are still ready to become …

05-10-2019 TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the country’s third step to suspend more of its nuclear commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers would be taken on Friday. According to Rouhani, the third step will be taken on September 6 after talks between Iran and …

05-10-2019 NASSAU/ LOS ANGELES: Hurricane Dorian is expected to bring a “life-threatening storm surge” up the US east coast after causing widespread destruction in the Bahamas. Residents from Florida all the way up to Virginia are warned to listen to emergency advice as the category two hurricane slowly moves north. …

04 September, 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will withdraw the highly controversial extradition bill which triggered months of protests. The proposal, introduced in April, would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The bill was suspended in June when …

04 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: An Indian journalist says he and his family are living in fear after police filed criminal cases against him for exposing corruption in a school midday meal scheme in Uttar Pradesh state. Police have filed four criminal cases against …

04 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DAMASCUS/ RIYADH/ NY: The United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), and France may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say. A new report warns the countries they …

03 September, 2019 LOS ANGELES: The United States Coast Guard said on Monday night it had located the bodies of 35 people, after a dive boat anchored off the coast of Southern California caught fire and sank. Nine people remain unaccounted for. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll of the US Coast …

03 September, 2019 (Int’l News Desk) BEIJING: At least eight children have been reportedly stabbed to death in a knife attack during the opening of classes at a primary school in China’s central province of Hubei. The South China Morning Post quoted local authorities on Tuesday as saying that a …

03 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + News Desk KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Third attack in Afghanistan during last six days claims several casualties while the negotiations are underway between Americans, Afghanistan and Taliban through a most secret Pakistan’s arbitration and some Indo-Pak influential journalists and Shia priests not only in Doha, …

02 September, 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend marred by some …