International

02-10-2020 BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqis gathered in the capital and the country’s south on Thursday, marking the first anniversary of the start of unprecedented protests demanding the fall of the ruling class. The protests, which lasted months before running out of steam, will be revived, demonstrators said, if no reform …

01-10-2020 SACRAMENTO (CALIFORNIA): Flames devoured swaths of brush and trees in Northern California amid unseasonably hot and dry weather. Officials said wind-whipped flames led two firefighters to deploy the emergency fire shelters they carry. The firefighters were assigned to the Glass fire burning in wine country north of San Francisco on …

01-10-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: After Brenton Tarrant another “White Terrorist” namely Stipe Lozina has been sent to jail in Australia ‘over the public pressure’ while the dozens are in queue to face imprisonment against their severe crimes and terrorism bids if their trials run speedy …

30-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DUBAI/ CAIRO: A rights organization established by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi months before his controversial killing in 2018 at the hands of a Saudi hit squad in Turkey has now been opened in the United States. The official launch …

30-09-2020 WASHINGTON: The first of the three debates between US President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden on Wednesday was a heated one, with both men trading insults back and forth as the Democratic nominee told Trump to “shut up” and called him “clown” two times. Trump frequently …

30-09-2020 KUWAIT CITY: Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was on Wednesday sworn in as Kuwait’s new emir after the death of his half-brother, the late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who died in the US at the age of 91. Sheikh Nawaf was visibly emotional as he addressed the National Assembly …

29-09-2020 KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s 91-year-old Emir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah died on Tuesday in a hospital in the United States. “With great sadness and sorrow, we mourn … the death of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, emir of the State of Kuwait,” said Sheikh Ali Jarrah al-Sabah, the minister in …

29-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ LONDON: Amnesty International says it is halting work in India due to a “continuing crackdown” and “harassment” by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The human rights watchdog said the bank account of its India branch has been frozen by …

29-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: The ancestral homes of two Bollywood legends are to be saved from crumbling into ruin in northern Pakistan. The houses belonged to the families of Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar who migrated to India in the years before Pakistan was created …

29-09-2020 LONDON/ BAGHDAD: Britain will hand back a 4,000-year-old sculpture to Iraq after an investigation found that it had been looted, the British Museum said on Monday. Museum experts were called by a specialist London police unit after an online sales platform offered the artefact for sale in May last …