International

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 …

19 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ RIYADH/ WASHINGTON: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the religious commonalities between the Iranian and Iraqi nations and said enemies’ conspiracies to sow discord between the two countries have been thwarted. Addressing a ceremony in Tehran on …

18 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + ABC News PERTH/ MELBOURNE: In the history of the world there is no example of police shooting and murdering an ‘un-armed’ woman who stepped back and neither she was in a position to do anything against police nor any possibility of any type …

18 September, 2019 TEHRAN: Iranian President says Riyadh should see attack as warning to end Yemen conflict, doesn’t address claims of Iranian involvement. Tensions in the Middle East have escalated following drone attacks on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. The pre-dawn attacks on Saturday knocked out more than half of …