30-10-2020 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ MELBOURNE: New Zealand has voted to legalize euthanasia but could reject recreational cannabis use following two referendums that were part of this month’s general election, the country’s Electoral Commission said on Friday. New Zealanders were asked whether they agreed with the End of Life Choice Bill, …
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30-10-2020 NEW DELHI/ RIYADH: India on Thursday described the map of Kashmir in a new currency note of Saudi Arabia as a “gross misrepresentation” of sovereign territory. Official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said during the weekly briefing that Delhi has taken up the issue at …
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30-10-2020 DAKAR: As many as 140 Europe-bound migrants have drowned off the coast of Senegal in the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, the United Nations migration agency said on Thursday. The boat carrying 200 passengers caught fire and capsized on Saturday a few hours after leaving the fishing town of …
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29-10-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL/ DOHA/ RIYADH/ DUBAI/ BAGHDAD/ DAMASCUS/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Last but not least, no to Press Media of India (PMI) or Messenger but only to BBC (PMI treats it as discrimination rather than to issue an official handout for all media …
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29-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report TEHRAN/ PARIS/ ANKARA/ ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khameini questioned the dual standards around gagging media when it comes to questioning the Holocaust but not doing the same when the Holy Prophet Muhammad Mustafa Peace Be Upon …
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29-10-2020 PARIS/ NICE: An attacker with a knife killed at least three people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, officials said, in an incident the city’s mayor described as “terrorism”. Mayor Christian Estrosi, a former MP with the right-wing Republicans party, …
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29-10-2020 PHILADELPHIA/ WASHINGTON: Hundreds of protesters marched through the US city of Philadelphia for a second night, demanding racial justice after police fatally shot a black man. The family of Walter Wallace Jr says he was suffering a mental health crisis when officers opened fire on him. Police say they …
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FRANCE CRACKS DOWN ON MUSLIMS 28-10-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) KARACHI/ MELBOURNE: Where are the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Daesh or Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), …
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28-10-2020 NEW DELHI: Facebook India’s Policy Head Ankhi Das has resigned two months after the social media giant was embroiled in a hate speech controversy in the country. The Wall Street Journal had accused Facebook of going easy on ruling party supporters who allegedly violated hate speech rules with anti-Muslim …
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28-10-2020 RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) plans to cancel the foreign worker sponsorship system, also known as “Kafala”, and replace it with a new contract between employers and employees, KSA’s newspaper “Maaal” said on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. Saudi Arabia, which this year is chairing the Group of 20 …
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