International

11-12-2021 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hardening his rhetoric over the situation in Ukraine, saying the war in the country’s east looks like genocide. Russian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian troops there since 2014, and tensions have been growing as Russia amasses troops on the border. Meanwhile, US …

11-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: Former US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on his once-close ally, ex-Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of disloyalty. Trump said he was furious at Netanyahu for the way he congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory, using an expletive towards him. He also …

10-12-2021 CHIAPAS/ MEXICO CITY: At least 53 people, most of them migrants and refugees from Central America, have died after the truck they were travelling in crashed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said, in one of the worst road accidents in the country in recent years. The …

10-12-2021 NEW YORK/ LONDON: The United States government has won an appeal at Britain’s High Court over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Friday’s ruling, which overturns an earlier decision, means 50-year-old Assange may now be closer to being extradited from London’s high-security Belmarsh prison to the US, where …

10-12-2021 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The High Court in England on Thursday rejected the Indian government’s petition seeking permission to challenge a district court’s order turning down the extradition of Khalistan movement activist Kuldeep Singh on humanitarian grounds, giving a huge blow to India’s efforts to suppress pro-Khalistan activities …

10-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: US President Joe Biden has ordered his staff to prepare “additional measures” if troubled talks over Iran’s nuclear program, which resumed Thursday in Vienna, fail to reach a resolution. “The president has asked his team to be prepared in the event that diplomacy fails and we must …

09-12-2021 BERLIN: Social Democrat Olaf Scholz has been sworn in as Germany’s new Chancellor, ending 16 years of conservative rule under Angela Merkel and paving the way for a pro-European coalition government that has promised to boost green investment. Scholz, 63, who served as vice chancellor and finance minister in …

09-12-2021 DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 20 university students to death and five more to life imprisonment for the killing of a fellow student who criticised the government on social media. Abrar Fahad, a 21-year-old second year student of the country’s prestigious Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology …

09-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WAZIRISTAN/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL:  After analyzing, scrutinizing, assessing, proofing and admitting hundreds of news stories of Press Media of India (PMI) and Messenger which have been flashing, highlighting, publishing, exposing and revealing since 90s by this correspondent (SJA Jafri), the top world media …

09-12-2021 RIYADH/ PARIS: French police have arrested a Saudi national suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi officials said they believed it was a case of mistaken identity. The man was detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by …