13-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Victoria Police arrested 74 people and handed out 176 fines during an anti-lockdown rally that resulted in clashes between officers and protesters. Authorities say up to 250 people went to the rally held at the Queen Victoria Market alone. Mounted police and heavily armed riot police …
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13-09-2020 SACRAMENTO/ WASHINGTON: More than 30 people have been killed by wildfires that are sweeping through US West Coast states, officials say. Dozens of people are missing in Oregon alone, with one emergency official saying the state should be preparing for a “mass fatality incident”. Fires have been raging in …
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13-09-2020 NEW DELHI: Delhi on Saturday summoned Facebook’s India chief to answer allegations that the social media giant failed to remove dangerous content in its biggest market globally. India is the US-based firm and its messaging service WhatsApp’s biggest market in terms of users and the company is under pressure …
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13-09-2020 GAZA/ WASHINGTON/ DUBAI/ MANAMA: Palestinians in Gaza burned pictures of Israeli, American, Bahraini, and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest against the two Gulf countries’ moves to normalize ties with Israel. Bahrain on Friday joined the UAE in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel, a move forged …
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12-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Police have issued a stern warning to Melbourne anti-lockdown protesters after a fearsome response to an underwhelming rally today. Authorities were bracing themselves for hundreds of people to attend a planned ‘Freedom Walk’ through the Melbourne CBD, as the state faces another two weeks under stage …
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China to release five Indians detained at border 12-09-2020 BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China will release five Indian nationals it detained earlier this month in a region bordering Tibet, the state-back Global Times newspaper has reported, citing unnamed sources. The five were Indian intelligence agents dressed as hunters, the paper said, …
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12-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DOHA/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: After nearly two decades of war that has killed tens of thousands, peace talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban have opened in Qatar’s capital. Key speakers at Saturday’s opening ceremony at a hotel in Doha included Abdullah Abdullah, …
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12-09-2020 WASHINGTON/ MANAMA/ JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Bahrain became the latest Arab nation to agree to normalize ties with Israel. The move comes as part of a broader diplomatic push by US President Donald Trump and his administration to fully integrate the Jewish state into the Middle East. Trump announced the agreement …
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11-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report DOHA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The long-awaited talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban will take place in Qatar’s capital Doha from Saturday. Qatar’s foreign ministry made the announcement on Thursday as a final hurdle over the release of six Taliban prisoners appears to …
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11-09-2020 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: The foreign ministries of China and India agreed in a joint statement on Friday that their troops must quickly disengage from a months-long standoff along their disputed Himalayan border. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met on the sidelines …
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