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10-12-2021 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The High Court in England on Thursday rejected the Indian government’s petition seeking permission to challenge a district court’s order turning down the extradition of Khalistan movement activist Kuldeep Singh on humanitarian grounds, giving a huge blow to India’s efforts to suppress pro-Khalistan activities …

10-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: US President Joe Biden has ordered his staff to prepare “additional measures” if troubled talks over Iran’s nuclear program, which resumed Thursday in Vienna, fail to reach a resolution. “The president has asked his team to be prepared in the event that diplomacy fails and we must …

09-12-2021 BERLIN: Social Democrat Olaf Scholz has been sworn in as Germany’s new Chancellor, ending 16 years of conservative rule under Angela Merkel and paving the way for a pro-European coalition government that has promised to boost green investment. Scholz, 63, who served as vice chancellor and finance minister in …

09-12-2021 DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 20 university students to death and five more to life imprisonment for the killing of a fellow student who criticised the government on social media. Abrar Fahad, a 21-year-old second year student of the country’s prestigious Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology …

09-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WAZIRISTAN/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL:  After analyzing, scrutinizing, assessing, proofing and admitting hundreds of news stories of Press Media of India (PMI) and Messenger which have been flashing, highlighting, publishing, exposing and revealing since 90s by this correspondent (SJA Jafri), the top world media …

09-12-2021 RIYADH/ PARIS: French police have arrested a Saudi national suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi officials said they believed it was a case of mistaken identity. The man was detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by …

08-12-2021 NEW DELHI: At least 11 people were killed when an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and senior Indian defence officials on board, crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor Wednesday, as per Indian media reports. Indian news agency ANI tweeted about the crash, …

08-12-2021 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and recently recovered from the United States, has been formally returned to Iraq. The $1.7m cuneiform tablet, known as the …

08-12-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australian serial conman Peter Foster has been arrested, six months after he failed to appear in a Sydney court over an alleged Bitcoin fraud. Foster, 59, is accused of defrauding a Hong Kong man of AU$1.7m (£900,000; $1,2m) in cryptocurrency. Last year he was arrested in …

08-12-2021 DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has said all government entities will adopt a new working-week schedule that will consist of four and half days, with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend. The move, announced by state news agency WAM on Tuesday, will come into effect on …