International

23-08-2021 NEW YORK: Hurricane Henri was on course to make landfall on the US east coast on Sunday, with millions in New England and New York’s Long Island preparing for flash flooding, violent winds and power outages. A swath of the northeastern coastline, including New York City, was under alert …

22-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: The Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police said yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne’s CBD were among the most violent he has seen in two decades. Chief Commissioner Shane Patton described the rally, which attracted thousands of people, as “disgraceful”. “What we saw …

22-08-2021 KABUL/ LONDON: Britain said Sunday that seven Afghans have died in the chaos near Kabul airport as the British defence secretary expressed support for extending Washington’s end-of-the-month deadline to permit the evacuation of so many people. The United States and its allies have been struggling to cope with the …

22-08-2021 SANA’A: Alongside a grinding seven-year navy battle, Yemen’s authorities and the Huthi rebels are locked in battle on one other entrance, a foreign money conflict that has opened up a gulf in riyal values. Each the federal government and the Iran-backed Huthis used the identical notes till late 2019 …

22-08-2021 WASHINGTON/ KABUL: The US has warned its citizens to avoid Kabul airport amid concerns about the potential for attacks by Afghanistan’s branch of the Islamic State (IS) group. A security alert on Saturday told US citizens to stay away due to possible “security threats outside the gates”. Only those individually …

22-08-2021 GAZA/ JERUSALEM: Israeli gunfire has wounded 26 Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the head, health officials said, as protesters threw stones and burned tyres during a demonstration along the border fence with Israel. Hamas, which rules Gaza, had called a protest on Saturday to mark …

21-08-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Desperation deepened around Kabul’s airport on Saturday with evacuation operations in chaos and US President Joe Biden warning he could not predict the outcome of one of the “most difficult airlifts in history”. Six days after the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan, the flow …

21-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Pretty impartial and fairly neutral experts believe that millions of Aussies are not only against Prime Minister Scott Morrison but also his regime may end soon because of world worst immigration policies, health, education, economic, interior and foreign even …

21-08-2021 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden sought Friday to reassure the United States on the dramatic evacuation from Afghanistan, promising no Americans would be abandoned in one of the “most difficult” airlifts in history. Widely criticized over the chaotic exit after a sudden Taliban victory, Biden warned that the frantic …

21-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON/ NEW YORK: Taliban fighters massacred nine (9) ethnic Shia  Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last month, Amnesty International has said in a new report. In the findings published on Thursday, witnesses gave accounts of …