International

07-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Key Indian cities re-opened for business on Monday, with long queues for buses in the financial hub of Mumbai while traffic returned to the roads of New Delhi after a devastating second wave of coronavirus that killed hundreds of thousands. The 100,636 new infections of …

07-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Right-wing pro-settler Israeli groups have scrapped a controversial march that was to take place this week in Jerusalem after police refused to authorize it, arguing that neither the format nor the timing of the event was suitable given the current levels of tension in Israel. The …

07-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ DHARKI: At least 40 people have been killed and more than 120 injured after a train collision near the southern Pakistani town of Dharki, officials say, with rescue work still under way to find survivors trapped in the debris. The collision took …

06-06-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Several anti-vaccination protesters were arrested after staging small demonstrations in Melbourne’s CBD today. The series of planned rallies outside of vaccination hubs failed to draw big crowds. About two dozen people were at a rally outside of Flinders Street Station where some were arrested for refusing …

06-06-2021 TEHRAN: Seven candidates qualified to run in Iran’s June 18 presidential election have gone head-to-head in a televised debate, as controversy over the disqualification of other hopefuls persists. Saturday’s three-hour event focused on the economy, which has taken a big hit in the past three years under United States …

06-06-2021 SHEIKH JARRAH/ JERUSALEM: Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Givara Budeiri has been released from custody several hours after she was arrested by Israeli police while covering a demonstration in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli police assaulted the Doha-based media network’s Jerusalem correspondent while arresting her on …

06-06-2021 WASHINGTON: Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024. “I understand the place will be packed, …

05-06-2021 TAORMINA: Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations reached a landmark accord on Saturday backing the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent in an effort to close cross-border tax loopholes used by some corporations. “We … commit to a …

05-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OUAGADOUGOU: Armed assailants belong with an anti-Shia terrorist organization (also known as Taliban, an African form of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ IS Boko Haram) have killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, a Western African country. The …

05-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ JHARKHAND: Indian police in the state of Jharkhand arrested seven people for having “mineral uranium” in their possession and for their plans to sell it in the black market, The Indian Express reported on Friday. The publication said that law enforcement authorities of the Indian state seized …