Top News

09-06-2020 GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic situation i worsening around the globe, warning against complacency. “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) …

08-06-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) has called for an investigation into former President Mauricio Macri for allegedly spying on more than 400 journalists, a source told AFP news agency. Dozens of foreign journalists, including several representing AFP, appeared on a list of people to be investigated in …

08-06-2020 WELLINGTON: New Zealand (NZ) has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country. At midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system. Under new rules, social distancing is not required …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE/ LONDON: Huge peaceful rallies are taking place across the world against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death. Tens of thousands of people have marched …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report Mass rallies marched across Australia today with tens of thousands of people joining global Black Lives Matter protests, calling for an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. Despite warnings from government, health officials and state police, protests flooded NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South …

07-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRASILIA/ BERLIN/ BEIJING/ COLOMBO/ Global cases of the novel coronavirus topped seven million, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India, according to a Reuters tally. About 30 percent of those cases, or two million infections, are in the US. Latin America has …

06-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Anger over the death of George Floyd has spread to Australia, with Black Lives Matter protests being held across the country but Australian demonstrators are not just expressing solidarity. Many are using the moment to vent fury about indigenous deaths in …

06-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India and China have agreed to resolve a dispute over their shared border in the Ladakh region through “peaceful” diplomatic channels, according to the Indian foreign affairs ministry. The statement on Friday came a day before top …

06-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ PARIS/ MALI: France says it has killed the leader of al-Qaeda in north Africa, Abdelmalek Droukdel, in an operation in Mali. Defence Minister Florence Parly said Droukdel along with members of his inner circle had been killed in the north …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK: Ex-US Defence Secretary James Mattis has denounced President Donald Trump, saying he deliberately stokes division. He said he was “angry and appalled” by Trump’s handling of ongoing protests over the death of African American George Floyd at …