International

By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: It is up to India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute, US President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding that he was ready to assist if the two South Asian neighbours wanted his help in resolving the decades-old issue. Trump was …

02 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri RIYADH/ MELBOURNE: In continuation of the violations of human rights particularly world most barbarian oppressions on Shia Muslims, women and children, aged, ill and disable persons under the direct supervision of Aal-e-Saud (regime/rulers) in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and as per an open …

01 August, 2019 KENTUCKY: One person is dead and at least five were injured in central Kentucky after a gas line ruptured and produced a fireball that could be seen around the region early Thursday. The 30-inch gas line in Lincoln County breached around 150 feet from a mobile home …

01 August, 2019 BEIJING/ VICTORIA CITY China’s army in Hong Kong has released a three-minute video showing troops carrying out “anti-riot” exercises, in what is being seen as a thinly veiled warning to pro-democracy protesters. The video, posted to social media, begins with a soldier shouting: “All consequences are at …

01 August, 2019 AMSTERDAM:  A burqa ban has come into effect in the Netherlands but the police and other institutions say they will not enforce it. After around 14 years of debate, a burqa ban has come into effect in the Netherlands. Clothing that “covers the face” such as burqas …

01 August, 2019 ADEN/ SANAA: Rebels launch medium-range ballistic missile, armed drone at military parade in the southern city of Aden, sources claimed. An explosion in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, has killed dozens of people and wounded many others, according to reports. The Houthi rebel movement, …

01 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Hamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, died in an air strike, sources had not confirmed the claims of US media till the filing of this report (like the killing of OBL, Aiman-az-Zawaheri, Baitullah Mehsud etc …

01 August, 2019 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif appears to be taking the news that the US is levying sanctions against him in stride. Less than five minutes after the news officially broke Wednesday that Zarif would be under a US financial and travel embargo moving forward, the …

31 July, 2019 BEIJING: A three-year-old boy in China survived a fall from a sixth-floor apartment balcony on Monday thanks to a group of quick-thinking onlookers who used a blanket to break his fall. The incident happened around 4 p.m. in a residential community in Chongging, located in the southwest part …

31 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DODOMA/ MELBOURNE: A prominent journalist’s arrest in Tanzania has sparked widespread anger and renewed concerns over press freedom in the country. Police on Tuesday said investigative journalist Erick Kabendera was detained as part of an inquiry into his Tanzanian citizenship. “We are …