International

28-05-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States of America (USA) has decided to end sanctions waivers allowing Russian, Chinese and European firms to continue work at certain Iranian nuclear sites, a US official and another source familiar with the matter told the Reuters News Agency …

27-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has ruled out pursuing charges against the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst or anyone else for her story revealing plans to extend the Australian Signals Directorate’s spying powers. The AFP deputy commissioner of investigations, Ian …

26-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will investigate the death of a black man in the US state of Minnesota after a video emerged showing a police officer kneeling on his neck. In the footage, the man believed to be …

26-05-2020 NEW YORK: A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her job with an investment firm. The man, described as an “avid birder”, was concerned the dog could …

25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has hinted that the country may be subjected to further lockdown if the number of coronavirus cases and deaths surged. Mirza, while speaking to the media …

25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ OTTAWA: A senior Saudi security official who for years was the key go-between for Britain’s MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia is now being persecuted along with his family, according to former Western intelligence officials. Dr Saad al-Jabri, who helped …

23-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BERLIN: A church in Germany’s capital, Berlin, has helped a nearby mosque comply with physical distancing guidelines by hosting Friday prayers, in a move hailed as “an amazing sign of solidarity”. Places of worship reopened in the country earlier this month, but worshippers must …

23-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Special Correspondent KARACHI: 97 people have been killed after an Airbus A320 passenger airliner crashed into a residential neighborhood while on approach to the airport in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. At least two male passengers of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight …

22-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + National Monitoring Desk KARACHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane crashed in a residential area near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Friday less than a minute before landing. It is estimated that 97 people were aboard the plane, including 85 passengers and 12 members …

22-05-2020 RIYADH/ WASHINGTON/ ISTANBUL: The family of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed in October 2018 when he visited the country’s consulate in Istanbul said on Friday that they had forgiven those who murdered their father, his son Salah wrote in a tweet. “In this blessed night of the …