International

09-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Almost all national and global terror organizations, clusters, parties, chapters and networks particularly Taliban (Khurasani, Sajna, Chichen Uzbick, Tajik, Arab and Ajam groups), Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at those have not only been working in Pakistan as …

09-11-2021 ABUJA: At least 26 schoolchildren have been killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger a local governor told media. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them seriously,” said Chaibou Aboubacar, mayor of Maradi …

09-11-2021 WARSAW: Poland says it has repelled an attempt by hundreds of migrants and refugees to enter the country from its eastern neighbor, Belarus, and said thousands of others were on the way. Warsaw said it had deployed additional soldiers, border guards and police in response to the situation along …

09-11-2021 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The Christchurch mosque attacker is considering appealing his whole-of-life jail term, said his lawyer Monday, adding that the attacker may argue that pleas in the wake of the 2019 shootings were obtained under duress. Self-proclaimed white supremacist Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 charges of …

08-11-2021 PARIS: France’s Catholic Church has agreed to financially compensate thousands of people who were sexually abused by priests in what the president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference hailed as a “decisive step”. Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said in a speech on Monday that the church has recognised its “institutional responsibility” …

08-11-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s army is holding a large-scale sea, land and air military drill, which comes shortly after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and United States Navy had a confrontation in the Sea of Oman over a seized oil tanker. The drill was launched on Sunday morning and is …

08-11-2021 LONDON: Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer has accused the PM of “corrupt and contemptible” behaviour in trying to “protect” Tory MP Owen Paterson, after he was found to have broken lobbying rules. Sir Keir told the BBC the government was “trashing” the UK’s reputation for upholding democratic standards. Paterson has …

07-11-2021 MEXICO CITY: With a destructive barrage of power punches in the waning minutes of a difficult fight, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez added another achievement to his overflowing list of boxing accomplishments. The Mexican pound-for-pound superstar is the undisputed super middleweight champion of the world. He became the first four-belt world …

07-11-2021 LONDON/ ONTARIO/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Leading pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has won the first round of a major defamation case at the Superior Court of Ontario, Canada, against veteran CBC journalist Terry Milewski and conservative leaning public policy think tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) over allegations that SFJ and its …

07-11-2021 WASHINGTON: After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, a package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvements, sending it to US President Joe Biden to sign into law. The 228 to 206 vote is a substantial triumph …