International

05-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW/ BEIJING: The Defense Ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday, government officials said, the highest level face-to-face political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May. Both …

04-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ROCHESTER/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: Seven US police officers have been suspended over the death of an unarmed black man who suffocated after being restrained. Daniel Prude, who had mental health issues, died after being put in a “spit hood”, which …

04-09-2020 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi dismissed any plan for negotiations with the US after the foreign minister of Russia expressed readiness to help Tehran and Washington hold talks. Asked by Tasnim about Sergei Lavrov’s idea of Russian mediation between Iran and the US for direct …

04-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The genocide of “Black People” across the world where the “White Rulers” are running administration is not only continued but the black men and women especially teenagers are also being tortured, murdered, arrested, kidnapped, missed and involved in fake cases like “Shia …

03-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Int’l Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD/ DOHA: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that Saudi Arabia would always be a friend of Pakistan despite the government’s recent criticism of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the Kashmir issue. “Yes, we want OIC to play …

03-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MENLO PARK (CALIFORNIA)/ HYDERABAD DECCAN (TALANGANA STATE OF INDIA): Facebook has banned a member of India’s governing Hindu nationalist party for violating its policies covering violence and hate speech, after the social media giant was accused of political bias. The company …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI/ LONDON/ BERLIN/ NEW YORK/  VATICAN CITY: India reported 78,357 new coronavirus cases in the past one day, taking its total to more than 3.7 million infections as the government eases pandemic restrictions nationwide. India registered 78,357 new coronavirus …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said the Indian army’s statement that its troops pre-empted the Chinese military’s actions, “fully proves that it was the first to illegally cross the border in an act of provocation”, Global Times reported. …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BAGHDAD/ PARIS/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Iraq on Wednesday and said the main challenges facing the country are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Daesh or ISIS) group fighters and foreign …

01-09-2020 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to put an end to more than three weeks of cross-border attacks, a statement issued on Monday said. In the latest escalation, Israel has bombed Gaza almost daily since August 6 in response to airborne incendiary devices and, less …