23-06-2020 RIYADH: Only a very limited number of people currently living in the kingdom may take part, an announcement on state media says. An estimated two million people would otherwise have visited Mecca and Medina this summer for the annual gathering. There had been fears the Hajj might be cancelled …
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22-06-2020 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Renowned religious scholar Allama Talib Jauhari passed away in Karachi late on Sunday night, his son Riaz Jauhari confirmed in the wee hours of Monday at the age of 80. The well-known scholar had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital for several days and was on …
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22-06-2020 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military secretly conducted hundreds of weapons development experiments on animals, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. Around 1,000 experiments were conducted by the Israeli Defense Ministry on different types of animals during the past three years, the daily said, citing a document from the “Let …
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22-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRASILIA/ NEW YORK/ ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general said. The WHO reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases as the total rose by 183,020 …
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STUTTGART/ BERLIN: Groups of people have smashed shop windows, looted, and attacked police vehicles in central Stuttgart during hours of night-time disturbances. German police say more than a dozen police officers were hurt during the violence, in south-west Germany. Video clips on Twitter show people vandalising shops in the city …
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22-06-2020 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is not “fit” for the office of United States presidency, his former national security adviser John Bolton has said in an interview with a US news network, adding that Trump does not have “the competence to carry out the job”. “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I …
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20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The new chief of the US federal media agency, a Trump-appointee, has sacked three senior officials, raising fears that networks will be politicised. Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and former associate of ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon, has …
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20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved Black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the …
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20-06-2020 UNITED NATIONS/ GENEVA: The board of governors at the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution critical of Iran, the first of its kind since 2012, as tension mounts over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Friday’s resolution was put forward by European states and urges the Iranian government to provide …
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LHASA/ BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China’s claim of sovereignty over the entire Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, a claim that it had not made directly for decades, has prompted the leader of the Tibetan-government-in-exile to issue a dire warning to India: “learn from what happened to us”. Speaking to media, Lobsang …
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