11-11-2021 MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ BEIJING: Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Raj Kiran Grewal, who lives in Mohali in India’s Punjab state, saw Australia as the ideal place to do her MBA but after spending 20 months trying to get around the country’s ultra-strict border controls, Grewal is so sick of “false hopes” …
Read More »UK Supreme Court blocks $4.3bn class action against Google
11-11-2021 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has blocked a planned 3.2 billion-pound ($4.3bn) British class action against Google over allegations the internet giant unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users. Britain’s top judges unanimously granted Google an appeal against the country’s first such data privacy case …
Read More »India hosts talks on Afghanistan but no Afghan official invited
10-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance. India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional …
Read More »Yemen sentences model to five years in prison
10-11-2021 SANA’A: A female fashion model was awarded five years of imprisonment over “drug abuse” and “prostitution”. However, the charges were rejected by her defence and condemned by rights groups. Entisar al-Hammadi, 20, was arrested in February at a checkpoint while on her way to a photo-shoot in the Yemeni …
Read More »UN staff detained in Ethiopia’s capital
10-11-2021 ADDIS ABABA: At least nine United Nations staff members and their dependents have been detained in the Ethiopian capital, the world body said. A UN spokesperson said on Tuesday that the UN had submitted a request to Ethiopia’s foreign ministry to immediately rUN security officials have visited the detained …
Read More »China to sit out regional security dialogue in New Delhi
10-11-2021 BEIJING: China will not attend a regional security dialogue of stakeholder countries on Afghanistan to be hosted by India, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Tuesday. “Due to scheduling reasons, it is inconvenient for China to attend the meeting. We have already given our reply to the Indian …
Read More »Pak Govt & TTP reach ceasefire agreement
09-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Almost all national and global terror organizations, clusters, parties, chapters and networks particularly Taliban (Khurasani, Sajna, Chichen Uzbick, Tajik, Arab and Ajam groups), Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at those have not only been working in Pakistan as …
Read More »Deadly fire ‘decimates’ school in Nigria
09-11-2021 ABUJA: At least 26 schoolchildren have been killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger a local governor told media. “Right now, we have 26 dead and 13 injured, four of them seriously,” said Chaibou Aboubacar, mayor of Maradi …
Read More »Poland blocks hundreds of migrants at Belarus border
09-11-2021 WARSAW: Poland says it has repelled an attempt by hundreds of migrants and refugees to enter the country from its eastern neighbor, Belarus, and said thousands of others were on the way. Warsaw said it had deployed additional soldiers, border guards and police in response to the situation along …
Read More »NZ mosque attacker may appeal against life-term sentence
09-11-2021 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The Christchurch mosque attacker is considering appealing his whole-of-life jail term, said his lawyer Monday, adding that the attacker may argue that pleas in the wake of the 2019 shootings were obtained under duress. Self-proclaimed white supremacist Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 charges of …
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