International

05 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR/ ISLAMABAD: India’s government has said it plans to revoke the part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special privileges. Article 370, which grants it significant autonomy, is sensitive because it is the basis on which the princely state …

05 August, 2019 CAIRO: Authorities have not yet said what caused the explosion that killed seventeen people in central Cairo. The explosion occurred after multiple cars collided outside the National Cancer Institute. An explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) killed 17 people and injured 32, Egypt’s health ministry said Monday. …

05 August, 2019 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: Iran has seized another foreign tanker in the Gulf, Iranian state media say. A Revolutionary Guard Corps commander was quoted as saying it was “smuggling fuel for some Arab countries”. The commander said the tanker was carrying 700,000l of fuel, adding that seven sailors had …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri Second mass shooting in America in less than 24hrs OHIO/ MELBOURNE: Not only the total security of America but the performance of all US open and secret agencies and security forces have been revealed while the Trump Administration’s in-human and anti-refugees policies as well …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri MEXICO CITY/ MELBOURNE: Mexico, considered one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, has witnessed 10 such deaths this year. Three more journalists have been killed in Mexico in less than a week, including two on Friday, bringing to ten the total number of …

04 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEXAS/ MELBOURNE: Twenty more people have been killed and 26 injured in a mass shooting (“another white terror attack) in the Texas City of El Paso. Governor Greg Abbott described it as “one of the most deadly days in the history of …

03 August, 2019 LONDON: A 23-year-old woman found guilty of the murders of her two young daughters 17 days apart did so because they “got in the way” of the life she wanted, a UK court has heard. Louise Porton was sentenced to 32 years in jail for the murders …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: It is up to India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute, US President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding that he was ready to assist if the two South Asian neighbours wanted his help in resolving the decades-old issue. Trump was …

02 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri RIYADH/ MELBOURNE: In continuation of the violations of human rights particularly world most barbarian oppressions on Shia Muslims, women and children, aged, ill and disable persons under the direct supervision of Aal-e-Saud (regime/rulers) in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and as per an open …

01 August, 2019 KENTUCKY: One person is dead and at least five were injured in central Kentucky after a gas line ruptured and produced a fireball that could be seen around the region early Thursday. The 30-inch gas line in Lincoln County breached around 150 feet from a mobile home …