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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19-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON/ DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump still has a good chance of being re-elected thanks to his strong support base, despite his declining support in recent months. “The biggest mistake …
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18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK: George Floyd’s brother on Wednesday begged the United Nations to help African Americans because “Black lives do not matter in the United States”, as the UN’s rights chief urged reparations for centuries of discrimination. Philonise Floyd made an impassioned speech via …
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18-06-2020 KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI: The upper house of Nepal’s Parliament has approved a new map for the country, including land controlled by India, in a row that has strained ties between the South Asian neighbors. India, which controls the region – a slice of land including Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani …
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17-06-2020 TEHRAN/ BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah censured the US sanctions against Syria, stressing that they have failed to achieve their desired results. In a televised speech on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversary of the sixth Shiite Imam, Imam Ja’far Sadeq (AS), and the demise of former leader …
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17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: India’s prime minister has said the deaths of at least 20 soldiers in a fight with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan border area “will not be in vain”. Narendra Modi said India …
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By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly (SA) unanimously passed a resolution seeking to make it mandatory to write Khatam-un-Nabiyyin with the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on Monday. Muhammad Hussain of the MQM-P presented the resolution. It demanded that it should be made mandatory …
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17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in a violent face-off with Chinese forces on the disputed border, the Indian army has said, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas. In a …
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