International

04-02-2021 BRUSSELS/ PARIS: Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi was convicted of attempted terrorism Thursday by a court in Belgium for his role in a 2018 bomb plot targeting an Iranian opposition group in France. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The court ruled that Assadi and three others sought to …

03-02-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: It had all the elements of children’s’ theatre: A hero, a villain and a good deal of pantomime. Liberal MP Craig Kelly, castigated by medical experts, described as a “menace” by the opposition and apparently dressed down by the Prime Minister, played the part of …

03-02-2021 RIYADH/ CAIRO: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suspended entry to the kingdom from 20 countries, with the exception of diplomats, Saudi citizens, medical practitioners and their families, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, the state news agency reported. “The Ministry of Interior announced that a temporary suspension for …

03-02-2021 Bureau Report PERTH/ MELBOURNE: Firefighters have spent the night trying to contain a massive blaze burning near Perth, with temperatures across the fire ground at Wooroloo expected to climb into the mid-30s today. The bushfire has now destroyed 71 homes, Western Australia’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services confirmed …

02-02-2021 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Once again the women’s target killing has raised in Pakistan particularly in Karachi but neither the police nor any other Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) is ready to accept that women were targeted or are targeting while the victim families, area residents, eye witnesses and independent …

02-02-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies SAN FRANCISCO/ NEW DELHI: Twitter has removed the restrictions that it had allegedly placed on the coverage of India’s growing and controversial farmer protests, a local fact-checker who initially reported the development confirmed Monday evening. “All the accounts are back,” Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of and fact-checker …

02-02-2021 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran’s foreign minister has said a European Union official could help “synchronize” or “coordinate” efforts by Iran and the United States to return to a 2015 nuclear accord, as a standstill persists over which country will take the first step. In an interview with CNN on Monday, …

01-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Another Press Media of India (PMI) news has not only verified, found hundred percent true word by word but also acknowledged by concerned Aussies Authorities that neither the Australia remained live-able for foreigners nor millions of residents of Australia prefer to live …

01-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Several senior Indian journalists have been charged with sedition over their reporting and online posts about a farmers’ protest last week, sparking criticism from media associations. The cases have been filed with police in at least five states against the journalists, …

01-02-2021 MYANMAR (BURMA)/ DHAKA: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the governing party were detained in a series of early morning raids, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday, following days of escalating tension between her civilian government and the …