22-06-2020 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military secretly conducted hundreds of weapons development experiments on animals, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. Around 1,000 experiments were conducted by the Israeli Defense Ministry on different types of animals during the past three years, the daily said, citing a document from the “Let …
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22-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRASILIA/ NEW YORK/ ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general said. The WHO reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases as the total rose by 183,020 …
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STUTTGART/ BERLIN: Groups of people have smashed shop windows, looted, and attacked police vehicles in central Stuttgart during hours of night-time disturbances. German police say more than a dozen police officers were hurt during the violence, in south-west Germany. Video clips on Twitter show people vandalising shops in the city …
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22-06-2020 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is not “fit” for the office of United States presidency, his former national security adviser John Bolton has said in an interview with a US news network, adding that Trump does not have “the competence to carry out the job”. “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I …
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20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The new chief of the US federal media agency, a Trump-appointee, has sacked three senior officials, raising fears that networks will be politicised. Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and former associate of ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon, has …
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20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved Black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the …
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20-06-2020 UNITED NATIONS/ GENEVA: The board of governors at the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution critical of Iran, the first of its kind since 2012, as tension mounts over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Friday’s resolution was put forward by European states and urges the Iranian government to provide …
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LHASA/ BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China’s claim of sovereignty over the entire Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, a claim that it had not made directly for decades, has prompted the leader of the Tibetan-government-in-exile to issue a dire warning to India: “learn from what happened to us”. Speaking to media, Lobsang …
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19-06-2020 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s bid to end a major program that protects young immigrants from deportation. The justices upheld lower court rulings that found his move to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) was “unlawful”. It protects “Dreamers”, about …
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19-06-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: The Australian government and other organisations are being targeted by a “sophisticated state-based cyber-actor”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. Morrison, speaking to the media in Canberra, would not name the state. “This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, …
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