International

12-09-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s renowned media house India Today has launched a new TV channel which will transmit only good and positive content for the viewers. The vice-chairperson of the media house, Kallie Purie, said while speaking to media that the channel, named Good News Today, will feature stories of …

12-09-2021 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The FBI has released a newly declassified 16-page document related to logistical support provided to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the September 11, 2001, attacks. The document, released late on Saturday, describes contacts the hijackers had with Saudi associates in the United …

12-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ SHANKSVILLE: The Taliban, who recently announced an interim government after taking control of Afghanistan, have cancelled the inauguration ceremony, according to a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission. “The new Afghan government’s inauguration ceremony had been cancelled a …

11-09-2021 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Twenty years after hijacked passenger jets crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, people in the United States have come together to honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001. Saturday’s ceremony at the September 11 Memorial …

11-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The UN has condemned the Taliban for what its “increasingly violent response” to dissent, weeks after the group’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan. Taliban fighters killed four people during recent protests, the UN said. Demonstrations have taken place across …

Biden & Xi speak on phone for first time 10-09-2021 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping have spoken by phone, ending a nearly seven-month gap in direct communication between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies. The call was confirmed by the White House …

10-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Journalists in Afghanistan say that they have been beaten, detained and flogged by the Taliban when attempting to cover protests. Photos circulating online, show two journalists from Etilaatroz newspaper with welts and bruises after their arrest in the …

09-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING/ MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL: US President Joe Biden says Pakistan, Iran, China and Russia are working to negotiate and reach an agreement with the Afghan Taliban on certain issues. His comment came hours after the Taliban announced details of its …

08-09-2021 PARIS: A French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of a group that killed 130 people in a rampage across Paris described himself on Wednesday as “an Islamic State soldier” at the start of the trial into the 2015 attacks. Salah Abdeslam appeared in court dressed in black …

08-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has appointed Mohammad Sasan Akhund a close aide to the group’s late founder Mullah Omar, as head of Afghanistan’s new caretaker government, weeks after it took control of the country in a rapid offensive. The list of cabinet …