International

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: The Minneapolis city council has said it wants to disband the city’s police department, after days of protests over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died after a city police officer knelt on his neck …

09-06-2020 KUALA LUMPUR/ DHAKA: Malaysia has detained nearly 270 Rohingya refugees whose boat had drifted offshore for nearly two months because of coronavirus lockdowns. They fled southern Bangladesh in early April but had been unable to dock. Dozens of those aboard jumped into the sea and tried to swim to …

09-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI: Nepal’s foreign minister says his country was still waiting for a response from India on holding talks to resolve a border dispute that has strained relations between the South Asian neighbours. Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali told The Associated Press in an …

09-06-2020 WASHINGTON/ SAINT PAUL: Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden has said the late George Floyd will “change the world.” Following a private meeting with Floyd’s family in Houston to offer his sympathies, Biden told CBS news his death was “one of the great inflection points in American history”. The …

09-06-2020 SAINT PAUL: The Minneapolis ex-policeman accused of killing unarmed black man George Floyd has made his first court appearance, where his bail was set at $1.25m (£1m). Prosecutors cited the “severity of the charges” and public outrage as the reason for upping his bail from $1m. Derek Chauvin faces charges …

09-06-2020 GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic situation i worsening around the globe, warning against complacency. “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) …

08-06-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) has called for an investigation into former President Mauricio Macri for allegedly spying on more than 400 journalists, a source told AFP news agency. Dozens of foreign journalists, including several representing AFP, appeared on a list of people to be investigated in …

08-06-2020 WELLINGTON: New Zealand (NZ) has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country. At midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system. Under new rules, social distancing is not required …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE/ LONDON: Huge peaceful rallies are taking place across the world against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death. Tens of thousands of people have marched …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report Mass rallies marched across Australia today with tens of thousands of people joining global Black Lives Matter protests, calling for an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. Despite warnings from government, health officials and state police, protests flooded NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South …