26-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will investigate the death of a black man in the US state of Minnesota after a video emerged showing a police officer kneeling on his neck. In the footage, the man believed to be …
Read More »White US woman called police on black man in dog row
26-05-2020 NEW YORK: A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her job with an investment firm. The man, described as an “avid birder”, was concerned the dog could …
Read More »Pakistan hints at reimposing lockdown after Eid
25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has hinted that the country may be subjected to further lockdown if the number of coronavirus cases and deaths surged. Mirza, while speaking to the media …
Read More »Top exiled Saudi officer ‘targeted through family’
25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ OTTAWA: A senior Saudi security official who for years was the key go-between for Britain’s MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia is now being persecuted along with his family, according to former Western intelligence officials. Dr Saad al-Jabri, who helped …
Read More »Berlin church hosts Muslim prayer in ‘amazing sign of solidarity’
23-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BERLIN: A church in Germany’s capital, Berlin, has helped a nearby mosque comply with physical distancing guidelines by hosting Friday prayers, in a move hailed as “an amazing sign of solidarity”. Places of worship reopened in the country earlier this month, but worshippers must …
Read More »97 dead as Pakistani plane crashes among Karachi homes
23-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Special Correspondent KARACHI: 97 people have been killed after an Airbus A320 passenger airliner crashed into a residential neighborhood while on approach to the airport in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. At least two male passengers of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight …
Read More »Pakistani passenger plane crashes in Karachi
22-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + National Monitoring Desk KARACHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane crashed in a residential area near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Friday less than a minute before landing. It is estimated that 97 people were aboard the plane, including 85 passengers and 12 members …
Read More »Jamal Khashoggi’s family forgives his killers
22-05-2020 RIYADH/ WASHINGTON/ ISTANBUL: The family of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed in October 2018 when he visited the country’s consulate in Istanbul said on Friday that they had forgiven those who murdered their father, his son Salah wrote in a tweet. “In this blessed night of the …
Read More »China plans new national security law for Hong Kong
22-05-2020 BEIJING: China will propose a national security law for Hong Kong in response to last year’s sometimes violent pro-democracy protests that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, according to state news agency Xinhua, drawing condemnation from the United States. The …
Read More »Iran will support & assist all anti-Israeli groups: Khamenei
21-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: Iran will support and assist all anti-Israeli groups and nations, while a close cooperation and relation will now also remain continue to all collections and powers those are against Zionist regime openly and proudly, sources claimed. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah …
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