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13-04-2021 GENEVA: Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. So far some 780 million vaccines have been administered globally, but …

12-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Hundreds of people have gathered at rallies and marches around Australia to protest against the “horrific” number of Aboriginal people who die in custody each year. The protests also mark the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in …

12-04-2021 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif vowed revenge against Israel for an attack on Iran’s main nuclear facilities at Natanz but said it will not stop high-level talks to restore the country’s nuclear deal with world powers. In a private meeting with lawmakers on Monday, Zarif pointed out …

12-04-2021 MINNEAPOLIS/ WASHINGTON: “White US Police” shot dead another innocent “Young Black Man” in American and after the killing of Black Man, extraordinary anger has spread while protests and rallies have been started across America. Protests have broken out in the US city of Minneapolis after a policeman fatally shot …

12-04-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has abandoned its target of vaccinating nearly all the country’s 26 million people against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 after medical authorities changed their advice on vaccine use for the under 50s. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia would not set any new …

12-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: The UK government has added Pakistan to the list of 21 high-risk countries with unsatisfactory money laundering and terror financing controls. This list of 21 countries released by the UK Government replicates those countries listed by the Financial Action Task Force …

11-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A ‘Tika Utsav‘ or vaccine festival is being organized in the country from today to inoculate maximum number of eligible people against the coronavirus amid a worrying surge in cases. The mass vaccination program – which will be conducted from April 11-14 – …

11-04-2021 By SJA afri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: Pakistani Shia Muslims especially Karachi’s students, doctors, engineers, social workers, human rights activists, women, children even elderly and severely sick patients are being faced discriminations and racism since a long but neither they themselves complaint to anyone nor the ‘Britain Authorities’ …

11-04-2021 Bureau Report + BBC MYANMAR/ NEW DELHI: Myanmar nationals have been fleeing the country amid violence against civilians in the aftermath of a military coup. Many who live close to the border are seeking refuge in India, reports BBC Hindi’s Raghvendra Rao. It was on her third attempt that …

11-04-2021 TEHRAN: Iran began feeding gas to cascades of new, advanced centrifuges and unveiled dozens of “achievements” to mark its national nuclear technology day in an effort to show its nuclear program is peaceful. President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday launched several projects across the country via video link in Tehran …