15-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies RAWALPINDI-ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DOHA/ WASHINGTON: American Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to discuss Afghan Reconciliation Process among other matters, the military’s media wing. Khalilzad arrived in Islamabad earlier today and …
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15-09-2020 WASHINGTON: The administration of United States President Donald Trump can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the US, an appeals court has ruled. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted a preliminary …
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14-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: An Israeli court handed a Jewish settler three life sentences on Monday for murdering a Palestinian toddler and his parents in an arson attack on their home in the occupied West Bank. Amiram Ben-Uliel, 25, was sentenced by the Lod court …
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14-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A man is in an induced coma after he was allegedly struck by a police vehicle and kicked in the head by an officer during his arrest in Melbourne’s north yesterday. Video shows a group of six police officers pinning the man to the ground in …
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14-09-2020 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT/ TEHRAN: Suspected Israeli air strikes in eastern Syria on Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said. The raids against militant positions south of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian …
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14-09-2020 TOKYO: Japan’s governing party has elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, meaning he is almost certain to become the country’s next prime minister. Last month Abe announced his resignation for reasons of ill health. Suga, 71, serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current …
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14-09-2020 GENEVA/ NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded a record one-day rise in the number of new coronavirus infections, with 307,930 reported over 24 hours. The agency said that deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 917,417. The biggest increases in …
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13-09-2020 TORONTO: An elderly Muslim man, said to be in his 60s, was stabbed to death outside a mosque in Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported on Sunday, citing paramedics. The incident took place on Saturday evening in the area of Rexdale Boulevard and Bergamot Avenue, said the publication. According …
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13-09-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Victoria Police arrested 74 people and handed out 176 fines during an anti-lockdown rally that resulted in clashes between officers and protesters. Authorities say up to 250 people went to the rally held at the Queen Victoria Market alone. Mounted police and heavily armed riot police …
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13-09-2020 SACRAMENTO/ WASHINGTON: More than 30 people have been killed by wildfires that are sweeping through US West Coast states, officials say. Dozens of people are missing in Oregon alone, with one emergency official saying the state should be preparing for a “mass fatality incident”. Fires have been raging in …
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