International

06-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk + Int’l Monitoring Desk BEIRUT: People in Beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday’s huge explosion. President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes …

06-08-2020 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Facebook and Twitter have penalized Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful Covid misinformation”. Twitter …

05-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies AYODHYA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ SRINAGAR: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid a foundation stone for the construction of a Hindu temple at a holy site that’s been at the center of the country’s most politically and culturally divisive land dispute. On Wednesday …

05-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk + Int’l Monitoring Desk BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a two-week state of emergency should be declared following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least …

05-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk + Int’l Monitoring Desk BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a two-week state of emergency should be declared following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least …

04-08-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Majority of Australians has refused to accept the writ of state while, neither the state has any plan to maintain its writ across the board nor the citizens consider governmental orders or alerts hence, the foreigners especially non-Aussies have any fear …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies JALALABAD/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people have been killed in ongoing fighting between Afghan security forces and gunmen who raided a jail overnight in an attack claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turned into Islamic State of Iraq and Levant …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk TEHRAN/ MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON/ LONDON/ BERLIN/ NEW DELHI: More than 18 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus as of Monday. Almost 11 million have recovered and while nearly 690,000 have died. The …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies JALALABAD/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Fighters have attacked a prison compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, and a battle with security forces is under way, according to officials, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turned into Islamic …

02-08-2020 BEIJING/ REDMOND (WASHINGTON): A possible sale of Chinese-owned TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft is reportedly on hold after Donald Trump vowed to ban the video-sharing app. A sale was thought close to agreement, but was put in doubt after the US president’s warning on Friday. The Wall Street Journal …