International

23 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEXAS/ WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged warm words of friendship in Texas at a rare mass rally for a foreign leader. Around 50,000 people gathered for what Trump called a “profoundly historic event” on …

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP 22 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: Demonstrators have marched through Washington, DC, to protest against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration and demand accountability from politicians. Saturday’s “We the People March”, billed as an event to remind elected officials that …

22 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ RIYADH/ WASHINGTON: Iran is ready to destroy any country that launches an attack on its territory, a senior military official has said, after the US announced it was sending troops to support Saudi Arabia. “Be careful and make no mistake,” said …

22 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia says it will respond with “necessary measures” to attacks on two oil facilities as it reiterated the accusation that Iran was behind them. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said the weapons used were Iranian and …

Houthis vow to halt attack on Saudi installations By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DUBAI: Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, warned that if the US thinks of any plots against Iran, the Islamic Republic will respond from …

21 September, 2019 KARBALA/ BAGHDAD: Security officials say several others wounded after explosive device planted on the bus detonated. At least 12 people have been martyred and several others wounded in a blast from a bomb planted on a bus near the Iraqi city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, two …

20 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ NEW YORK: Ultimately, another Pakistani ‘female’ human rights activist would have to leave the country just because of direct ‘state terrorism’ and if she further remains in nation yet, she must be either murdered, ‘enforced disappeared’, kidnapped or detained against false cases especially …

20 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ NEW YORK: Thousands of young Australians walking out of their classrooms to demand action on climate change have been joined by thousands more adults in cities and towns around the nation. The global day of action, led by Swedish teenage climate activist …

19 September, 2019 By Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad (Bureau Chief) TEHRAN/ HYDERABAD DECCAN: Increasing the number of foreign students in Iran is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. “The ministry is trying to double the number of foreign university students in Iran and prepare …

19 September, 2019 MONROVIA: Dozens of children were killed after a fire broke out at their religious school in Liberia yesterday late night. The blaze started about midnight and gutted a dormitory and school building where students slept in Paynesville, on the outskirts of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, police spokesman Moses Carter …