08-07-2020 ADDIS ABABA: The death toll from demonstrations and ethnic violence that erupted in Ethiopia last week following the murder of a popular singer from the Oromo ethnic group has risen to 239, according to police. Pop star Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, a hero to many Oromo who saw him as the voice …
Read More »
08-07-2020 CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: China has opened an office to “safeguard national security” in Hong Kong, turning a hotel near a hotspot for pro-democracy protests and the annual vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown into its new headquarters. Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, called the …
Read More »
08-07-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE: The Australian state of Victoria has confirmed 134 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as its borders were closed and it moved to impose a six-week lockdown in Melbourne. Australia’s coronavirus emergency cabinet is to consider limiting the number …
Read More »
08-07-2020 WASHINGTON: The Director of US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said that acts of espionage and theft by China’s government pose the “greatest long-term threat” to the future of the America. Speaking to the Hudson Institute in Washington, Christopher Wray described a multi-pronged disruption campaign. He said China …
Read More »
08-07-2020 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump downplayed the continuing risk of the coronavirus in the United States and pressed his case for reopening schools on Tuesday. “What we want to do is get our schools open,” Trump said at a White House event attended by First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike …
Read More »
07-07-2020 GENEVA/ BEIJING: An apparent outbreak of bubonic plague in China is being “well managed” and is not considered to represent a high risk, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. Local authorities in the city of Bayannur in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning on …
Read More »
07-07-2020 KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ DOHA: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has warned that violence by the Taliban is threatening the country’s peace process, as he briefed the international community on Kabul’s preparations for peace talks with the armed group. Afghan authorities and the Taliban are preparing to engage in the so-called intra-Afghan …
Read More »
07-07-2020 BAGHDAD: An Iraqi analyst who was a leading expert on the Islamic State and other armed groups was shot dead in Baghdad on Monday after receiving threats from Iran-backed militias. Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on Hisham al-Hashimi, 47, outside his home in the Zeyouneh area of Baghdad, …
Read More »
07-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ RIYADH, MOSCOW: The UK is imposing sanctions on 49 people and organizations behind the most “notorious” human rights abuses of recent years. Individuals implicated in the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 will have their UK assets frozen …
Read More »
06-07-2020 NEW DELHI: India has overtaken Russia with the world’s third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases, at nearly 700,000, according to the latest data, as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing. India registered 24,248 positive cases in the last 24 hours taking the tally to 697,413, according to the …
Read More »
Pressmediaofindia