International

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has launched a major assault on one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, Kunduz, amid intense battles on Saturday. The complex attack came as the United States and the Taliban continued to seek an agreement in Qatar that would …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HAVANA/ WASHINGTON:  A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mohammad will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantánamo Bay from 11 January …

Source: BBC MELBOURNE: Australian activists have managed to halt the midnight deportation of a Tamil asylum-seeker family as they were being flown out of the country. An injunction, granted mid-air, paused the removal of Nadesalingam, Priya, and their two daughters to Sri Lanka. The family’s case has provoked national outcry …

30 August, 2019 DUBAI/ DAMASCUS/ NEW YORK: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it carried out air strikes against “terrorist militias” in southern Yemen as the UN-recognized government accused the UAE and Saudi Arabia of killing and wounding hundreds of people in the attacks. “Precise and direct air strikes” on …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies 29 August, 2019 CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: A former Australian spy charged with conspiring to reveal classified information to East Timor has been denied legal aid and might not be able to adequately fund his case, his lawyer told a court. The spy, known as Witness K, was …

28 August, 2019 MEXICO CITY: At least 23 people have been killed in a Mexican bar fire that police believe followed an attack linked to drug cartels. Eight women and 15 men died in the blaze in the Caballo Blanco (White Horse) bar in Coatzacoalcos, a port city in Veracruz, …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday referred petitions related to the abrogation of the special status for occupied Kashmir to a five-judge constitution bench for hearing in the first week of October. Notices were also issued to Indian federal government on the …

27 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: If the circumstance remain same or the situation betters a little bid in Strait of Hormuz, the American President may visit Iran in near future and if the situation is not changed, struggle for Trump’s visit to Iran will …

26 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that India’s decision to revoke Article 370 would prove to be a historic blunder by the Modi government in occupied Kashmir. “Time will prove that the Indian government has given an opportunity to the Kashmiri …