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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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21-12-2022 MOSCOW/ KYIV: President Vladimir Putin said the situation in four areas of Ukraine that Moscow has declared are part of Russia was “extremely difficult” and ordered security services to step up surveillance to secure its borders and combat new threats. Putin’s comments made on Security Services Day, widely celebrated …
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21-12-2022 SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday condemned a Japanese military buildup outlined in a new security strategy, calling it dangerous and vowing counteractions, while also warning of another imminent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Japan last week announced its biggest military build-up since World War Two as tension with …
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20-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ KABUL: Pakistani security forces on Tuesday retook control of a counter-terrorism interrogation center in the northwestern city of Bannu, where a group of officers was being held hostage by fighters from the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). During …
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