International

01-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The United States will restrict travel from India starting from May 4, the White House said on Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said …

01-05-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australian citizens returning home from India could face up to five years in jail and fines after the government made the journey temporarily illegal. The health ministry said the ruling had been made “based on the proportion of people in quarantine who have acquired a …

01-05-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A powerful suicide truck bombing struck a guest house in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 31 people and wounding as many as 91, the Interior Ministry said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Friday’s bombing in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar province, and there was …

01-05-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australian supermarket Woolworths has scrapped a plan for an alcohol mega-store near three dry Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin would have stood close to three communities which ban selling and drinking alcohol – Bagot, Kulaluk and Minmarama. The Northern …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report 01-05-2021 ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ GENEVA/ UNITED NATIONS/ GUANTANAMO BAY (CUBA): A Guantanamo Bay inmate alleges he was tortured by his American captors after the September 11 attacks and will file a complaint with the United Nations over his unending 19-year detention, his lawyer has said. …

30-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SAO PAULO (BRAZIL):  India sets another coronavirus positive tests and deaths record while the Brazil still stands first in pandemic as global COVID data tallies confirmed. India’s total COVID-19 cases have passed 18 million after another world record number of daily infections, as …

30-04-2021 JERUSALEM: Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage site in the north of Israel, rescue services said. Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service, posted the updated toll on social media on Friday, adding “MDA is fighting for the lives of dozens wounded, …

29-04-2021 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The United States will be delivering COVID-19 relief materials worth over USD100 million to India in the coming days, the White House said as the first flight carrying urgent health supplies left for the country. The flight took off from the Travis Air Force Base on …

28-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ AGRA: The harrowing image of a woman desperately giving Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to her dying husband in an auto rickshaw has gone viral on social media, and broken millions of hearts around the globe. India has been reporting more than 300,000 coronavirus infections over the …

28-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince has struck a conciliatory tone towards the kingdom’s arch-nemesis, Iran, saying he sought “good” relations after reports the rivals held secret talks recently in Baghdad. The two countries, locked in a fierce struggle for regional …