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19-07-2020 JERUSALEM: Israeli police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Hit by high unemployment, a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases and re-imposed coronavirus curbs, Israelis have taken …

19-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ DAMASCUS/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Beside continuous denials and ignorance and despite ‘criminal unawareness’ and worst attitude and behavior of bigotries of immigration departments across the world especially of uneducated, illiterate, immature, backward and world most bogus (like “CONTENTED …

18-07-2020 PARIS: A blaze that broke inside the gothic cathedral in the French city of Nantes on Saturday (Jul 18) has been contained, emergency officials said, adding that the damage was not comparable to last year’s fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. “The damage is concentrated on the organ, which seems …

18-07-2020 TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said 35 million Iranians may contract the coronavirus as the country still did not have herd immunity although a quarter of the population may be infected. “Our estimate is that up to now, 25 million Iranians have been infected with this virus,” Rouhani …

17-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BHOPAL/ GUNA (MADHYA PARDESH)/ NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Another  lower-caste Dalit couple in India attempted suicide after police beat them and destroyed their crops, causing outrage over the latest case of police brutality against marginalized sections of society. An online video showing …

17-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India said its diplomats protested and left a meeting arranged by Pakistan in Islamabad with an Indian man sentenced to death on charges of spying, saying an agreement to allow “unimpeded” consular access had not been honored by …

16-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Pakistan provided India unimpeded and uninterrupted consular access to Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) spy Kulbhushan Jadhav for a second time at India’s request, a statement by the Foreign Office said on Thursday. The offer was first …

16-07-2020 LONDON/ DAMASCUS: Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ …

16-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Monday Amal Clooney will be recognized for ongoing contributions to press freedom at an event where reporters from Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria, and Russia will be recognized for reporting despite arrests or threats of reprisal. …

15-07-2020 NEW YORK: President Donald Trump has downplayed police violence against Black people in the United States, saying “more white people” are killed by police officers. During a CBS News interview that aired on Tuesday, the Republican president was asked why Black people were still dying at the hands of …