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21-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Reports MEDINA/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD/ DAMASCUS/ SANA’A/ KUWAIT CITY: Including one hundred and fifty-six  (156) Shia Muslims including eleven (11) teenagers and six (6) young girls, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) executed a record  one hundred and eighty-seven (187) people during the …

20-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies JERUSALEM: Wearing face masks, waving black flags, and keeping two meters apart, thousands of Israelis demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions and declared PM as Crime Minister (CM). “Let democracy win,” said one placard on Sunday, while some protesters wrote …

20-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OTTAWA/ PORTAPIQUE (NOVA SCOTIA): A gunman who dressed as a policeman killed at least 13 people, including a female police officer, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canadian police say. The 12-hour rampage ended in a car chase. The attacker is also dead. Residents …

19-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON: The American President Donald Trump has been accused of stoking Islamophobia after raising questions about social distancing in mosques during the holy month of Ramadan. Trump said on Saturday there “could be a difference” in how authorities and politicians enforce coronavirus lockdown measures …

19-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Reports + Int’l Monitoring Desk HOUSTON/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ LONDON: In the United States, New York reported the lowest daily death toll in more than two weeks with Governor Andrew Cuomo expressing hope the hard-hit state may now be “past the plateau”. …

18-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ DUBAI/ Concerns have been raised about a prominent member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family after claims she was being detained without charge in a notorious prison used to house al-Qaeda militants. In a series of tweets published on her verified Twitter account late on Thursday, …

17-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Reports LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK/ CANBERRA/ MOSCOW/ ROME/ MADRID: The American government reported 5.2 million more citizens applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to 22 million – the worst stretch of US job losses on record. The losses …

15-04-2020 By SJA Jafri RIYADH/ MELBOURNE: On specific directions and special orders of the rulers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the KSA’s Security Forces once again started abducting, missing, arresting even killings of anti-Wahabi particularly Shia Muslims nationwide according to their traditional, cultural, historical, religious and sectarian differences …

15-04-2020 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK/ GENEVA: American President Donald Trump said that he had instructed his administration to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, in a move that drew immediate condemnation. Trump, at a White House news conference, claimed the WHO had …

13-04-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports + PR KARACHI/ MELBOURNE: Pakistani scientists’ achieve a significant breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19, Dow University’s research team has prepared intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) with plasma obtained from recovered patients of Corona virus through which COVID-19 victims can be treated. Vice Chancellor Prof …