International

28-06-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ DAMASCUS/ BAGHDAD: The United States said on Sunday it carried out a round of air raids against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq. In a statement, the US military said it targeted operational and …

27-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies SASKATOON (CANADA): Saskatoon’s Muhammad Kashif says he was taking his routine walk when a vehicle allegedly drove up and then someone stabbed him in the back multiple times. The Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said the “serious assault” was reported in the 2900 block of Preston …

27-06-2021 IDAHO/ ALBERTA: Authorities in the western United States and Canada are warning residents to take precautions as a historic heat wave hit the region on Saturday, sending temperatures soaring and pushing local officials to open emergency cooling centers. All of the US states of Washington and Oregon and parts …

27-06-2021 RAMALLAH/ GAZA CITY: Angry demonstrators clashed with Palestinian security forces during a third day of protests in the occupied West Bank over the death of an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) who died while in PA custody. Hundreds gathered in the city of Ramallah, the headquarters of the …

27-06-2021 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Authorities have announced a hard two-week lockdown in Sydney and some surrounding areas to contain the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant sweeping Australia’s largest city. Sydney’s streets were nearly deserted on Saturday as more than five million people across the city were subjected to the movement …

26-06-2021 BEIJING: A skull preserved almost perfectly for more than 140,000 years in northeastern China represents a new species of ancient people more closely related to us than even Neanderthals and could fundamentally alter our understanding of human evolution, scientists announced on Friday. It belonged to a large-brained male in …

26-06-2021 Bureau Report KOLKATA/ MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: Indian police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake COVID-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in a second major city. Vaccination rates rose sharply this week after …

26-06-2021 BERLIN: A man armed with a long knife killed three people and seriously injured five others in an attack in the southern German city of Wuerzburg on Friday, authorities said. Police stopped and arrested the attacker by firing a bullet through his thigh. They said his injuries were not …

26-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that the armed group has the “right to react” if the United States still keeps troops in Afghanistan after September 11, when the withdrawal is due …

26-06-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man, was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison Friday. Chauvin, 45, was convicted in April of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck for up …