25-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ DUBAI/ JERUSALEM: In December last year, following Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), he said the Emirati leadership apprised him of their position during his visit. He said he in turn apprised the Emirati …
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24-01-2021 Bureau Report + BBC AMSTERDAM/ MELBOURNE: Police in the Netherlands have arrested the alleged head of one of the world’s biggest drugs gangs, on a warrant issued by Australia. Tse Chi Lop – a Chinese-born Canadian national – is said to be the head of The Company, which dominates …
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24-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: In continuation of negotiations, talks and meetings as well as pacts, ‘orders’ and actions against innocent Afghan people (not Taliban) particularly Shia Afghani Muslims belonging to Hazara Community and hypocritically agreements, deals and hidden conspiracies with Taliban and …
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24-01-2021 MOSCOW: Russian police have arrested more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies around the country, a monitoring group said, as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, whose wife was among those detained. Navalny had called on his supporters …
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23-01-2021 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Larry King, giant of American broadcasting, has died at the age of 87 in Los Angeles. He died on Saturday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded. During his six-decade career, which included 25 years hosting his own CNN …
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23-01-2021 PENTAGON/ WASHINGTON: The former Army general Lloyd Austin made history when he was confirmed by the US Senate as America’s first Black Defence Secretary. The development came a day after Congress handed over Austin a special waiver to hold the post, which is required for any Defence Secretary who …
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23-01-2021 BEIJING/ DUBAI/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: China has passed a law that for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels, a move that could make the contested South China Sea and nearby waters more choppy. The Coast Guard Law passed on Friday empowers it to …
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22-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BAGHDAD/ KABUL/ KARACHI: The real and genuine Taliban (Wahabis/ Takfiris/ Daesh/ Islamic State/ IS) those were prepared, created, trained, introduced and finally launched during the Afghan Jihad in 1979 (that is not only continued till today in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Damascus, …
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22-01-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation’s attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers. Australia is introducing a landmark law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content. …
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22-01-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Indian foreign secretary has said that the government has cleared commercial exports of COVID-19 vaccines, with the first consignments to be shipped to Brazil and Morocco on Friday. The shots developed by UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and Oxford University are being manufactured at the Serum Institute …
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