International

15-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report TEHRAN/ XINJIANG/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the United States Congress has said in a new report. The Congressional-Executive …

14-01-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: Even as the standoff between Indian and Chinese armies continues in the Himalayan region of Ladakh for eight months now, the local administration’s decision to reopen the Pangong Tso lake for tourism has come as a glimmer of hope for the local …

14-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has officially been impeached for the second time. What just happened? The US House of Representatives has just voted to impeach for the second time, with the final tally at 232 in favor and 197 against. He was charged with “incitement of insurrection” following last week’s …

14-01-2021 ADDIS ABABA: More than 80 civilians, including children as young as two years old, have been killed in the latest attack to afflict western Ethiopia, according to the country’s national human rights commission. Aaron Maasho, spokesman and senior adviser for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), told media the …

13-01-2021 TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA/ WASHINGTON: The US government executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only “White Woman” on federal death row, on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle by overturning a stay. Montgomery was the first female prisoner to be executed by the US government since 1953. …

13-01-2021 WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives voted almost along party lines to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office just eight days before his term ends on January 20. The vote amounts to a symbolic …

13-01-2021 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Israeli night raids targeting arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria have killed dozens more Shia Muslims and 16 allied fighters, in the deadliest raids since 2018, a war monitor said Wednesday. The Israeli air force carried out more than 18 attacks against multiple targets …

13-01-2021 WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: The US Vice President has rejected the call from Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to invoke the amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office. US Vice President Mike Pence said in a letter to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday that he would not invoke …

13-01-2021 WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday al-Qaeda has a new home base in Iran, though he offered no evidence in a speech in Washington, DC, a claim Iran immediately rebuffed. Pompeo said al-Qaeda had centralized its leadership inside Tehran and that deputies of leader Ayman …

12-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON: Hundreds of “White American Terrorists” are planning armed protest next week particularly on the occasion of Joe Biden’ inauguration ceremony but neither Donald Trump nor any Far-Right or other racist, ethnic or nationalist group is ready to accept or own such types of …