International

31-12-2020 TEHRAN/ UKRAINE: Iran is to give $150,000 (£110,000) to the families of each of the 176 people who died when its Revolutionary Guards shot down a passenger jet last January. Ukraine has called for negotiations over the compensation and for those behind the attack to face justice. The Ukraine …

31-12-2020 SANA’A/ RIYADH: A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Saudi-backed cabinet landed there, security officials said. Yemen’s Interior Ministry said least 32 people were killed and 80 were wounded in the blast. The …

30-12-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Senate voted early Wednesday to legalize elective abortion, marking a historic shift in the heavily Catholic country that is the homeland of Pope Francis. Following a debate that went well past midnight, the Senate passed the bill 38 to 29 with one abstention just over two weeks …

29-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ NEW DELHI/ KABUL: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday said that about fifty journalists and media workers were killed in connection with their work in 2020; however, the majority of killings were in countries that are not at war. The figure …

29-12-2020 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are the latest countries to report first cases of the new, highly contagious coronavirus variant detected in the UK. At least three cases were detected in travellers from the UK who arrived in Pakistan. India reported six people who travelled from …

29-12-2020 RIYADH: A Saudi terrorism court has sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, local media reported, despite international criticism of her detention and pressure to release her. State-linked Saudi news outlet Sabq reported on Monday that al-Hathloul had been found guilty …

28-12-2020 BEIJING/ WUHAN: A Chinese citizen journalist held since May for her live-stream reporting from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city. Zhang Zhan, a former …

28-12-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, on holiday in Florida, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans, after coming under pressure from legislators, but imposed a number of conditions. The White House confirmed the outgoing president had signed the bill shortly …

27-12-2020 WASHINGTON – Three people were killed and another three injured Saturday in the U.S. state of Illinois when a shooter opened fire at a bowling alley, police said. Rockford city police urged people on Twitter to stay away from the area near the Don Carter Lanes bowling alley, as …

27-12-2020 By SJA Jafri NASHVILLE: Suicide, car, truck and other types of explosions (as normal routine in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan) have not only been started in America but also planned for other non-Muslims, American and European countries while the testing of this blast series has already been completed, …