17-06-2020 TEHRAN/ BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah censured the US sanctions against Syria, stressing that they have failed to achieve their desired results. In a televised speech on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversary of the sixth Shiite Imam, Imam Ja’far Sadeq (AS), and the demise of former leader …
Read More »Indian soldiers’ deaths in clash not in vain: Modi
17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: India’s prime minister has said the deaths of at least 20 soldiers in a fight with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan border area “will not be in vain”. Narendra Modi said India …
Read More »Pakistan should contact Saudia for construction of Shrine of Hazrat Fatima-al-Zahra (SA): MQM-P
By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly (SA) unanimously passed a resolution seeking to make it mandatory to write Khatam-un-Nabiyyin with the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on Monday. Muhammad Hussain of the MQM-P presented the resolution. It demanded that it should be made mandatory …
Read More »20 soldiers killed in border clash with China: India
17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in a violent face-off with Chinese forces on the disputed border, the Indian army has said, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas. In a …
Read More »Life-saving coronavirus drug ‘major breakthrough’
17-06-2020 LONDON: A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatment to …
Read More »Australian police probe arrest of Aboriginal man
17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ADELAIDE/ MELBOURNE: Police in South Australia have launched an investigation after an officer was filmed appearing to strike an Aboriginal man during an arrest. The 28-year-old man was arrested by police in Kilburn, a suburb of Adelaide, on Monday night. Footage …
Read More »GHMC ALWAL SUPPORTING LAND GRABBER SRI VENKATESHWARA MAHILA MANDLI AND WORKING UNDER PRESSURE OF MLA MALKAIGIRI
Hyderabad June 17 (PMI): The encroachment of land and grabbing issues are spiking where a government body is helping persons who are wrongfully claiming properties and real owners are being harassed under political pressure. In one such case, GHMC Alwal Circle-27 is being alleged of supporting land grabbers Sri Vehnkateshwara …
Read More »Trump confirms plan to cut US troops from Germany
16-06-2020 WASHINGTON/ BERLIN:US President Donald Trump has confirmed plans to withdraw 9,500 American troops from bases in Germany. He accused Germany of being “delinquent” in its payments to Nato, and said he would stick with the plan unless Berlin changed its course. Trump has long complained that European members of …
Read More »‘Doctors Without Borders’ pulls out of Afghan attack hospital
16-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has announced its decision to cease operations and withdraw from a hospital in Afghanistan’s capital, where gunmen last month killed at least 24 people – including mothers and young children …
Read More »Coronavirus cases exceed 8 million worldwide
16-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ WELLINGTON: More than 8 million people have been confirmed to have the coronavirus around the world. More than 3.8 million have recovered, while at least 435,662 have died, according to data …
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