International

14-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: In a startling development, Iran has reportedly dropped India from a key rail project along the border with Afghanistan after New Delhi showed reluctance in joining the project due to US sanctions. The Iranian government has …

14-07-2020 TERRE HAUTE (INDIANA): US murderer Daniel Lewis Lee has been put to death, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the first executions of federal inmates in 17 years. Several executions were initially delayed when a judge ruled on Monday that there were still unresolved legal challenges. The condemned prisoners …

14-07-2020 Bureau Report SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s hotel quarantine system is under fire for giving celebrities exemptions to the mandatory 14-day hotel isolation while refusing critically ill and pregnant Australians. Popstar Dannii Minogue is the latest high-profile arrival exempted from hotel quarantine. The news comes just a day after A Current Affair reported …

14-07-2020 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (CAPITAL OF AN INDIAN STATE KERALA): India’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of a former royal dynasty to run the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple, one of the world’s richest places of worship, after the state government tried to take it over when the family patriarch died. When …

14-07-2020 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: China’s pursuit of offshore resources in parts of the South China Sea is “completely unlawful”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Pompeo said he wanted to make clear that Beijing’s “campaign of bullying to control” the disputed waters was wrong. China said that the US …

13-07-2020 By SJA Jafri SANA’A/ DAMASCUS/ UNITED NATIONS/ Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) has said. The WFP said on Friday it needed $737m to the end of the …

Taliban attack on Afghan Intelligence Compound kills 11 13-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies AYBAK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters clashed with security forces following a car bomb blast at a government compound in northern Afghanistan, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more, officials have said. The attack …

13-07-2020 MEDINA (WASHINGTON): Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them most, not to the “highest bidder,” saying relying on market forces would prolong the deadly pandemic. “If we just let drugs and vaccines go …

13-07-2020 SAN DIEGO (CALIFORNIA): At least seventeen sailors and four civilians were hospitalized after an explosion erupted during a roaring blaze aboard a military assault ship at Naval Base San Diego Sunday morning, according to Naval Surface Forces. Plumes of smoke arose from USS Bonhomme Richard as firefighters battled the …

12-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: Two sources and the legal filing revealed Sunday that the Indian government had moved the Rajasthan High Court to stop the 59 Chinese mobile apps it banned from seeking an injunction order against the order, as tensions continue …