06 August, 2019 WASHINGTON/BEIJING: Billions of dollars in losses reported as US president accuses China of currency manipulation. Wall Street’s major indexes posted their biggest percentage drop of the year, as China’s’s devaluation of the yuan sparked fears of further escalation of the US-China trade war, with the US president …
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Obama urges Americans to reject leaders who stoke hatred By SJA Jafri + Agencies 06 August, 2019 WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: A new “BLACK & WHITE” war has been started in United States of America (USA) while the President of the USA would be either killed or sagged in near future because …
Read More »North Korea fires two more missiles
06 August, 2019 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired two unidentified missiles, its fourth such launch in less than two weeks, South Korea’s military has said. They were fired from South Hwanghae province across the peninsula into the sea to the east, a statement said. The US said it was monitoring …
Read More »US calls for peace after India’s Kashmir move
06 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ SRINAGAR/ ISLAMABAD: Washington expresses concern about reports of detentions, calls for peace along de facto India-Pakistan border. The United States has called for “peace and stability” along the de facto border that separates India and Pakistan in Kashmir after New Delhi revoked the …
Read More »Trump condemns “white supremacy” after “pasty terrorism”
05 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: After introduction a new term “White Terrorists and White Terrorism” (terrorists those are non-Muslims and non-whitish and the killings of non-Jewish or non-Christians by the white terrorists all over the world especially in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan such/ like …
Read More »Australian woman first to use assisted dying law
05 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE: An Australian woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to end their life under new assisted dying laws, a charity says. Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a nursing home in the state of Victoria in July. She was granted permission to …
Read More »Nigeria allows Shia leader Zakzaky to travel abroad
Court grants leave for medical treatment 05 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KADUNA/MELBOURNE: Justice Darius Khobo of Kaduna State High Court, on Monday, granted leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim Elzakzaky, leave to seek for medical attention in New Delhi, India. Khobo while granting the IMN …
Read More »India to revoke special status for Kashmir
05 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR/ ISLAMABAD: India’s government has said it plans to revoke the part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special privileges. Article 370, which grants it significant autonomy, is sensitive because it is the basis on which the princely state …
Read More »Cairo hit by deadly explosion, 19 killed, 32 injured
05 August, 2019 CAIRO: Authorities have not yet said what caused the explosion that killed seventeen people in central Cairo. The explosion occurred after multiple cars collided outside the National Cancer Institute. An explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) killed 17 people and injured 32, Egypt’s health ministry said Monday. …
Read More »‘Iran seizes another oil tanker in Persian Gulf’
05 August, 2019 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iran has seized another foreign tanker in the Gulf, Iranian state media say. A Revolutionary Guard Corps commander was quoted as saying it was “smuggling fuel for some Arab countries”. The commander said the tanker was carrying 700,000l of fuel, adding that seven sailors had …
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