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07-09-2020 DHAKA: A suspected gas pipeline explosion at a mosque in Bangladesh killed 17 people and injured dozens as worshippers were about to end their prayers, officials said on Saturday. The blast, which fire service officials suspect was caused by a leak from a gas pipeline, occurred on Friday night …

07-09-2020 TEHRAN/ DAMASCUS/ BAGHDAD/ AIN AL-HELWEH (LEBANON) Leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Hamas group met to discuss diplomatic normalization between Israel and Arab countries, the movement said. On Sunday, Hamas chief Ismail Haniya was given a hero’s welcome at Ain al-Helweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. Hezbollah-run …

06-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: US President Donald Trump has demanded the Fox News Network fire its national security correspondent after she confirmed claims he had disparaged the military – a bombshell that has dogged him for two days. Trump came under …

06-09-202 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis protested outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night and into early Sunday, pressing ahead with a months-long campaign demanding that the embattled Israeli leader resign. The protests, now in their 11th week, came as Israel is coping with record levels …

06-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India and China said that they had agreed to work towards reducing tensions along their contested border, following a meeting of the defense ministers of the nuclear-armed Asian giants. Both sides deployed additional forces along the frontier …

05-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: The criminal dramatization of Australia’s present rulers is not only being continued traditionally but also despite the wishes of millions of Aussies and beside learning a basic and primary childhood lesson from Pakistan regarding overcoming coronavirus pandemic neither the Liberal and …

05-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW/ BEIJING: The Defense Ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday, government officials said, the highest level face-to-face political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May. Both …

04-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ROCHESTER/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: Seven US police officers have been suspended over the death of an unarmed black man who suffocated after being restrained. Daniel Prude, who had mental health issues, died after being put in a “spit hood”, which …

04-09-2020 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi dismissed any plan for negotiations with the US after the foreign minister of Russia expressed readiness to help Tehran and Washington hold talks. Asked by Tasnim about Sergei Lavrov’s idea of Russian mediation between Iran and the US for direct …

04-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The genocide of “Black People” across the world where the “White Rulers” are running administration is not only continued but the black men and women especially teenagers are also being tortured, murdered, arrested, kidnapped, missed and involved in fake cases like “Shia …