International

03 September, 2019 LOS ANGELES: The United States Coast Guard said on Monday night it had located the bodies of 35 people, after a dive boat anchored off the coast of Southern California caught fire and sank. Nine people remain unaccounted for. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll of the US Coast …

03 September, 2019 (Int’l News Desk) BEIJING: At least eight children have been reportedly stabbed to death in a knife attack during the opening of classes at a primary school in China’s central province of Hubei. The South China Morning Post quoted local authorities on Tuesday as saying that a …

03 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + News Desk KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Third attack in Afghanistan during last six days claims several casualties while the negotiations are underway between Americans, Afghanistan and Taliban through a most secret Pakistan’s arbitration and some Indo-Pak influential journalists and Shia priests not only in Doha, …

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 …