International

14-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Australia’s notorious Park Hotel made headlines last week after tennis star Novak Djokovic was sent there when his visa was revoked. The incident shone a light on the plight of more than 30 refugees held there, some of them for …

14-01-2022 PARIS: Iran has sent back to prison from house arrest French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, her Paris-based support group said Wednesday, a shock development in the midst of hugely delicate talks on the Iranian nuclear drive. Adelkhah was sentenced in May 2020 to five years in prison for conspiring against …

14-01-2022 SEOUL/ PYONGYANG: On the day that North Korea test fired its first missile of the year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was in the border town of Goseong to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a rail line that he hopes will one day reconnect the divided Korean peninsula. Expressing …

13-01-2022 NAGALAND/ NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people have walked 70km (43 miles) in India’s northeast to demand the repeal of a controversial act that grants special powers to Indian troops, following a deadly incident last month when soldiers killed over a dozen civilians. They began their protest in Dimapur, a …

13-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic on Wednesday admitted “errors” in his travel papers and to meeting a journalist after a claimed coronavirus infection, as he battled to stay in Australia and fight for a record 21st Grand Slam title. The men’s world number one made …

13-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has issued notice to a northern Himalayan state following a petition that sought to prosecute several Hindu religious leaders for allegedly calling for a “genocide” of Muslims at a closed-door meeting last month. Three Supreme Court judges on Wednesday said they were …

13-01-2022 VIRGINIA: Prince Andrew is to face a civil case in the US over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17. Virginia Ms Giuffre is suing the prince, claiming he abused her in 2001. His lawyers said the case should be thrown out, citing a 2009 deal …

13-01-2022 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Geo News) LONDON/ MULTAN/ KARACHI: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has made former Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Syed Ali Haider Gilani its “Ambassador For Peace” as he was abducted by the Al-Qaeda and remained in harsh captivity for three years. The Universal …

13-01-2022 PARIS: International negotiations on Iran’s nuclear activities are proceeding so slowly that they are unlikely to lead to any agreement “within a realistic timeframe,” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday. The discussions taking place in Vienna “are under way but from our point of view they are …

12-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: When Brahmadev Mandal, an 84-year-old resident of India’s eastern Bihar state, got his first coronavirus vaccine dose in February last year, he said he felt, what was a “great improvement” in a knee pain that had bothered him for years. After the second dose, the …