05-07-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri + Agencies KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: The Pakistan Electronic Media Authority Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Friday suspended with “immediate effect” allegedly “pro-Shia” television channel 24NewsHD’s licence for “illegal transmission of news and current affairs content”. According to a press release issued by the regulatory authority, …
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05-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ LONDON/ HOUSTON: Over 212,000 new coronavirus cases were reported globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) – the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic. WHO said that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine …
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05-07-2020 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has vowed to defeat the “radical left” in a July Fourth Independence Day speech at the White House, condemning recent efforts to remove or rethink monuments to historical figures as attempts to destroy the US. Trump claimed without evidence that 99 percent of …
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04-07-2020 LONDON/ CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Boris Johnson’s government will allow almost 3 million Hong Kong citizens to move to the U.K., risking a further escalation of tensions with China after it enforced a sweeping security law on the former British colony. Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, …
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04-07-2020 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Iranian investigators have determined the cause of a fire at the Natanz nuclear plant, a spokesman for Iran’s top security body said, while declining to immediately release details of the findings over “security reasons”. The National Security Council’s statement came as Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s civilian …
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04-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Ever since the government of India announced a ban on 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, several reports have claimed that TikTok plans to take legal action against the ban in India. However, the company has now refuted the claims …
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04-07-2020 BLACK HILLS/ WASHINGTON: BUS President Donald Trump will be an unwanted guest of the Sioux People as he begins his July Fourth celebration weekend with a massive event on Friday where masks and social distancing are not required as coronavirus cases spike across the country. Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wrote …
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04-07-2020 DETROIT (MICHIGAN): A white husband and wife have been charged after the woman pulled a gun on a black mother and her children during a confrontation in a car park. Footage of the incident in Orion Township, near Detroit, has been viewed millions of times on social media. It …
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03-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SHEIKHUPURA/ LAHORE: A passenger train crashed into a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims at an unmanned railway crossing in eastern Pakistan, martyring at least 19 people and injuring several others, officials said. The accident took place on Friday in Sheikhupura district in Punjab province, according to a statement …
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03-07-2020 PARIS: The French government led by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and his government have submitted their resignations, which President Emmanuel Macron has accepted, according to the Elysee Palace. No reason was given in the short statement issued on Friday, but a cabinet shuffle had been widely expected after Macron …
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