International

04-05-2021 MEDINA (WASHINGTON): Billionaire couple Bill Gates and Melinda Gates on Monday afternoon announced they had decided to end their 27-year long marriage as “they can no longer grow as a couple”. The announcement from one of the world’s wealthiest couples, with an estimated net worth of some $130 billion, …

03-05-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, issued an apology Sunday for comments that he said “annoyed” the country’s supreme leader. Recordings surfaced late last month of Zarif, long the public face of Iranian diplomacy, saying the Revolutionary Guards had far more influence in foreign and nuclear affairs than …

03-05-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting “more repressively” at home and “more aggressively” overseas as it tests its growing influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, in an interview on US television. “What we’ve witnessed over the last several years is …

03-05-2021 PARIS: The “World Press Freedom Day” is being observed across the world, with emphasis on defeating censorship and journalists resolving to keep pursuing their mission without compromising their ideals. According to UNESCO, the theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day is “Information as a Public Good”. “It serves as …

03-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The incumbent chief minister’s party in India’s West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in state elections held as the coronavirus pandemic surged to crisis levels. Modi has been criticized for focusing on the elections instead …

03-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly rebuked Iran’s top diplomat for his comments on internal power struggles in a controversial audiotape leaked last week. Khamenei said during a televised speech on Sunday that he was “surprised and sorry” to hear Mohammad Javad …

02-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic yet with 3,689 deaths in the last 24 hours and one more state going into lockdown as the nation’s creaky healthcare system is unable to cope with the massive caseload. Sunday was the fourth straight day India …

02-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ASHWAUBENON (WISCONSIN)/ KARACHI: “Target Killing of Muslims (non-Christians) principally Shias and White Terrorism against non-Whitish mainly Asians and Blackish are not only continued across America but also rising very fast while neither any Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) especially police nor Biden …

02-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s election officials started counting votes in five states as COVID-19 cases continue to overwhelm the country’s healthcare system. New cases hit a record daily high of 401,993 on Saturday, the highest total in the world. More than 3,700 people also died a record in …

02-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: The UK High Court of Justice has ordered the British government to provide Halal food to a Pakistani family at the time of sehri and iftar during their 10-day mandatory quarantine, a decision that will be applicable to thousands of …