28-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN: Iran has vowed to avenge the killing of its most senior nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated near Tehran on Friday. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand County. Hossein Dehghan, military advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali …
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28-11-2020 HARRISBURG/ WASHINGTON: A US federal appeals court has firmly rejected the Trump campaign’s attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden from being declared winner in Pennsylvania. The panel of three judges deemed the case was without merit, saying the Trump campaign had not made specific allegations or provided proof. The …
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27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN: Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country’s defence ministry has confirmed. Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand County. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing “as …
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27-11-2020 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if Joe Biden is formally confirmed as the next US president. Answering reporters’ questions for the first time since losing the 3 November vote, Trump insisted, however, that “this race is far from over”. He has refused to …
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27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Australia has told 13 Special Forces soldiers that they face dismissal in relation to a report on alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan, the head of the country’s army said on Friday. Lieutenant General Rick Burr, the head of …
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27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QUEBEC CITY/ OTTAWA: The man convicted of fatally shooting six Muslim men at a mosque in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2017 will be able to apply for parole in 25 years, an appeals court has ruled, saying Alexandre Bissonette’s previous sentence was …
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26-11-2020 PARIS: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered several Paris police officers suspended after the publication of videos showing them beating up a Black man and using tear gas against him with no apparent reason. The incident came as President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing a new bill that restricts …
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26-11-2020 ANKARA: A Turkish court has jailed 337 former pilots and other suspects for life over plot to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a failed coup attempt four years ago, a court document obtained by sources showed on Thursday. Nearly 500 defendants were accused of carrying out the attempt to overthrow …
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26-11-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Football superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo “could not even dream” of being admired as much as Diego Maradona was, says his former Argentina team-mate Ossie Ardiles. Three days of national mourning have begun in Argentina after Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60. His body …
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25-11-2020 DAMASCUS/ DUABI/ RIYADH/ SANA’A: The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen says a commercial vessel has suffered minor damage from a blast in what it described as a foiled “terrorist act”, state media reported. The blast on Wednesday hit the MT Agrari, a Maltese-flagged, Greek-managed vessel offs …
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