22-12-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s government has asked the country’s states to keep a sharp lookout for any new variants of the coronavirus and urged people to wear masks in crowded areas, citing an increase in COVID-19 cases in China and other parts of the globe. Health …
Read More »UK ambulance workers join widening strike against inflation
22-12-2022 LONDON: UK ambulance workers have gone on strike, widening a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. Healthcare leaders warned about straining a health system already in crisis as ambulance staff at the state-run National Health Service (NHS), including …
Read More »‘Saudi Arabia wants dialogue with Iran after Jordan meeting’
22-12-2022 TEHRAN/ RIYADH/ BAGHDAD: Saudi Arabia is open to more dialogue with Iran, according to comments made by the Iranian foreign minister after he met his Saudi counterpart in Jordan. In an Arabic tweet published on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said he spoke with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince …
Read More »Racist killing of Cassius Turvey that shocked Australia
22-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australia was again forced to confront what experts say is “deeply entrenched” racism this year after the alleged murder of a 15 year old Indigenous boy, Cassius Turvey, shocked the nation. Cassius of the Noongar Nation people of Western Australia was walking …
Read More »Pakistani Professor picked by UN to probe Iran protests
21-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GENEVA/ ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Tuesday named three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s violent crackdown on women-led protests that have rocked the Islamic republic for more than three months. Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, Pakistani law …
Read More »India beefs up military at tense China border
21-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s foreign minister has said that the country has scaled up troop deployment along a disputed border with China to an unprecedented level. S Jaishankar added that India wouldn’t let China “unilaterally change” the status quo at the border. His comments came days after Indian …
Read More »Mass abortion program in war against Boko Haram
21-12-2022 ABUJA: Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror. When she awoke in a military camp nearby, “I felt the happiest I ever had in …
Read More »US’ role in Shiraz trerror attack disclosed: Khamenei
21-12-2022 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lashed out at the “spiteful” US government which has given birth to the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group for its role in an October fatal shooting attack on a religious site in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz. A …
Read More »Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders
21-12-2022 BARLIN: A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. Furchner, one of …
Read More »UK nurses stage second strike for inflation-busting pay
21-12-2022 LONDON: United Kingdom nurses have staged a second unprecedented strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the government for better wages. Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding the latest one-day stoppage on Tuesday after walking out …
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