13-03-2021 MINNESOTA/ WASHINGTON: The Minneapolis, Minnesota city council voted unanimously on Friday to pay $27m to settle a lawsuit filed by George Floyd’‘s family. In July, Floyd’s family sued the city and the four police officers charged in his death last May. The suit alleged the officers violated Floyd’s rights …
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12-03-2021 ABUJA: Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped about 30 Shia students from a forestry college near a military academy, in the fourth mass school abduction since December while it has become the routine in Nigeria that armed attackers or some anti-Shia groups especially one of worst most terrorist organization known …
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12-03-2021 ANKARA/ KABUL: Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Friday that Turkey plans to host Afghanistan peace talks in Istanbul in April, adding that Ankara will appoint an Afghanistan special envoy. Cavusoglu’s comments come after the United States shared a draft peace plan calling for replacing Afghanistan’s government with a …
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12-03-2021 DAKAR: Scores of French-owned businesses across the Senegalese capital, Dakar, are still coming to terms with the devastation of smashed windows, broken liquor bottles and burned-out premises after days of nationwide anti-government protests in the West African country. French supermarkets, petrol stations and mobile phone booths were torched and …
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12-03-2021 DOHA/ MOSCOW/ DAMASCUS/ ANKARA: Turkey, Russia and Qatar are making a joint attempt to promote a political solution to Syria’s 10-year conflict, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. “Today we launched a new trilateral consultation process,” Cavusoglu said on Thursday after talks in Doha with Russian and Qatari foreign …
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12-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has ordered a ban on the TikTok social media platform over alleged “obscene content”, the second time the app has been banned in the South Asian country in less than six months. The Peshawar High Court’s Chief Justice …
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12-03-2021 DAMASCUS/ ALEPPO/IDLIB: Attacks on rural Aleppo that caused severe damage to oil facilities have been described as “state terrorism” by the Syrian opposition, in what is a possible message to Turkish-backed forces in the region. The deadly attacks last Friday, reportedly launched by Russia from warships and by forces …
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12-03-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: In the latest development over the George Floyd case, a judge in Minnesota on Thursday added a new murder charge against Derek Chauvin, the police officer on trial for the racially-motivated death. Chauvin, 44, already faces charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death …
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11-03-2021 By SJA Jafri LONDON/ NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Once again, another claim of Press Media of India (PMI) regarding the world’s worst British policing system has been proved while the reporting in this connection is not only being acknowledged across the globe but also the entire British judiciary as well …
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11-03-2021 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON: One year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Vaccine Alliance is warning that developing countries are facing critical shortages of oxygen and medical supplies to cope with COVID-19 cases. Yet, the majority has been unable to administer a single dose of a …
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