International

02 September, 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend marred by some …

02 September, 2019 BEIRUT/ TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the Lebanese border after a week of rising tensions. Israel’s military has said it fired into southern Lebanon on Sunday after a number of anti-tank missiles by Hezbollah targeted its army base and vehicles near the border. The missiles …

02 September, 2019 SANAA/ RIYADH: Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwest Yemen have hit a prison complex, killing scores of people, Yemen’s Houthi movement and a Red Cross official said. The Sunni Muslim coalition, which has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthis for over four years in Yemen, …

01 September, 2019 DAMASCUS/ WASHINGTON: The United States military has said it hit an al-Qaeda-linked training camp in northwestern Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Saturday its attack close to Idlib city targeted leaders that were “responsible for attacks threatening US citizens, partners, and …

01 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON: Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa on Saturday, as a “white terrorist” drove on the highways and streets opening …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has launched a major assault on one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, Kunduz, amid intense battles on Saturday. The complex attack came as the United States and the Taliban continued to seek an agreement in Qatar that would …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HAVANA/ WASHINGTON:  A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mohammad will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantánamo Bay from 11 January …

Source: BBC MELBOURNE: Australian activists have managed to halt the midnight deportation of a Tamil asylum-seeker family as they were being flown out of the country. An injunction, granted mid-air, paused the removal of Nadesalingam, Priya, and their two daughters to Sri Lanka. The family’s case has provoked national outcry …

30 August, 2019 DUBAI/ DAMASCUS/ NEW YORK: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it carried out air strikes against “terrorist militias” in southern Yemen as the UN-recognized government accused the UAE and Saudi Arabia of killing and wounding hundreds of people in the attacks. “Precise and direct air strikes” on …