International

02-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON The United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer received a boost in northern England on Friday, fighting off a challenge from the governing Conservatives to hang on to a parliamentary seat that if lost, would have heaped pressure on him to stand down. …

02-07-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel said its fighter jets targeted a weapons manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip overnight on Friday in the latest unrest since a ceasefire ended May’s attacks. Security sources with Hamas said the raids hit training sites and no casualties were reported. The Israeli army spokesperson …

02-07-2021 Bureau Report BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeated his country’s support for the Chinese government regarding its policies in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, while also praising the country’s one-party system as offering a better model for societies compared with electoral democracy. Khan was speaking to members …

02-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: After nearly 20 years, the United States military has left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the epicenter of its war to remove the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, two US officials have said. The airbase was handed over to …

02-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党成立100周年庆祝活动), or the Centennial of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党成立一百周年), culminated in a ceremonial event to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist …

02-07-2021 PARIS: Some 130 countries have agreed to introduce a global tax reform for multinationals so they pay their fair share in whichever country they operate, the OECD said on Thursday, but some EU states are yet to sign the agreement. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said in …

01-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al- Jazeera LONDON/ KARACHI: Fouad Kakaei laughed when British authorities showed him photographs of him steering an inflatable dinghy over the Channel from France. “It was ridiculous,” he said, referring to the moment he was questioned at the port of Dover in …

01-07-2021 BRITISH COLUMBIA/ OTTAWA: Authorities say nearly 500 people have died in Canada’s westernmost province across five days, as record-breaking temperatures raise serious concerns for vulnerable groups, including the elderly. British Columbia’s (BC) Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said on Wednesday afternoon that the BC Coroners Service received at least 486 …

01-07-2021 PARIS: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $2.1bn over the next five years to help advance gender equality worldwide, announcing this commitment during the UN Women Generation Equality Forum in Paris. During the forum’s opening event Wednesday, $40bn in new investments benefitting women and girls were announced, …

01-07-2021 WARNING: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting, Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family. OTTAWA/ BRITISH COLUMBIA: An Indigenous community in western Canada has found 182 unmarked graves near a former boarding school for Indigenous children, the latest such discovery in recent weeks. …