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13-06-2021 DAMASCUS: At least 13 people, including two medical staff, have been killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks in the northern Syrian town of Afrin controlled by Turkey-backed fighters, activists and an aid group said on Sunday. The first attack struck a residential area, while the second …

13-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA: Armed assailants linked with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban/ Boko Haram) have killed 53 Shia people in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to police and local residents, the latest violence to hit the restive region. Many motorcycle-riding gunmen known locally as bandits on Thursday …

13-06-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven (G7) nations have unveiled a significant infrastructure initiative for lower-income countries in a bid to counter China’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, dubbed the “New Silk Road”. Promising to “collectively catalyse” hundreds of billions in infrastructure investments for low- and middle-income countries, the G7 …

13-06-2021 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year hold on power is set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged to heal a nation bitterly divided over the departure of the country’s longest serving leader. Netanyahu, 71, the most …

12-06-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: A teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer has been given a special journalism award by the Pulitzer Prize board. Darnella Frazier, now 18, was awarded the citation for her courage, the Pulitzer committee said. Her film spurred protests for racial justice …

12-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies TORONTO/ ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people have marched in support of a Canadian-Pakistani Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when …

12-06-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin, in advance of his June 16 meeting with United States President Joe Biden, said relations between the US and Russia are at a nadir. “We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin told NBC News in …

12-06-2021 PARIS/ DUBAI: An NGO campaigning for human rights in the Gulf has filed a complaint in France against a top UAE official running to be president of Interpol, accusing him of being responsible for the torture of a prominent dissident, its lawyer said on Friday. The Lebanon-based Gulf Centre …

11-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ The human rights organization Amnesty International has said China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, …

11-06-2021 WASHINGTON: A US congresswoman has hit back after a rare rebuke from Democratic colleagues over her remarks seeming to liken the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on Ilhan Omar to “clarify her words”, but the Minnesota representative slammed the group’s “tropes”. …