07-11-2020 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States of America (USA) said that it had removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and …
Read More »Former Afghan TV presenter killed in Kabul explosion
07-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a bomb explosion in Kabul on Saturday in the latest violence to rock the city. Yama Siawash died when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded near his residence …
Read More »Biden predicts victory as he leads over Trump
07-11-2020 WILMINGTON/ WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden said he was going to win the U.S. presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes. “The numbers tell us … it’s a clear …
Read More »1st Melbourne man charged under FIL linked with China
07-11-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A Melbourne man has become the first person to be charged with preparing for Foreign Interference Laws (FIL) passed by the Federal Parliament in 2018. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) charged 65-year-old Di Sanh Duong after executing a number of search warrants in the greater Melbourne area …
Read More »Jacinda Ardern reappointed as New Zealand’s PM
06-11-2020 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ CANBERRA: Jacinda Ardern has been formally appointed as the Prime Minister of New Zealand on Friday, returning to the office for a second term after securing a landslide victory in the country’s general election last month. Ardern and her ministers were sworn in by Governor-General Dame …
Read More »American democracy at stake with delayed election results
06-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON: With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process from the White House on Thursday, falsely claiming the election was being “stolen” from …
Read More »Biden takes big stride to winning presidency
05-11-2020 WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden took a huge step Wednesday to capturing the White House, with wins in Michigan and Wisconsin bringing him close to a majority, but President Donald Trump responded with fury as his campaign sued to suspend vote counting. In a brief address on national television, flanked …
Read More »Vienna attackers “heavily armed & dangerous”: Austrian Chancellor
03-11-2020 VIENNA: Police in Vienna are hunting at least one gunman after a string of shootings described by the Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, as a “repulsive terror attack” left at least three people dead. Two civilians were killed by gunmen, while one attacker was killed by police in the centre …
Read More »Stabbing attack in Canada leaves 2 dead, 5 injured
01-11-2020 QUEBEC/ OTTAWA: Police in Quebec City arrested a man on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others in a stabbing rampage near the provincial legislature on Halloween. The man, in his mid-20s, was arrested in connection with the Halloween-night attacks and taken to a hospital “for evaluation”, …
Read More »“Authorities” pushing Australia into more backwardness
01-11-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE: Almost entire Australia is suffering from worst weather situations since the beginning of last month which caused dangerous climate, seasonal and viral diseases and infections but neither none of one concerned country’s “authorities” aware about the said condition nor want to know …
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