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02-04-2021 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel would benefit the region, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said, adding that a potential deal “depends to a large extent on the progress of the peace process”. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, during an interview …

02-04-2021 TAIPEI: At least 36 people were reported killed and dozens injured after a packed express train derailed in a tunnel in eastern Taiwan on Friday morning, authorities said, in the worst train crash on the island in at least 40 years. The transport ministry said some 40 injured passengers …

02-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India opened up its coronavirus inoculation program to people above 45 on Thursday as infections surge, which will delay vaccine exports from the world’s biggest maker of the drug. The country, with the most number of reported COVID-19 cases after the United States and Brazil, …

02-04-2021 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: President of Iran Hassan Rouhani reminded the US that any further delay in honoring the 2015 nuclear deal will be to its own detriment. In remarks after inaugurating a number of national industrial projects via videoconference on Thursday, President Rouhani said it is now up to the …

01-04-2021 RIYADH. BAGHDAD: Iraq will never become a launch-pad for attacks on Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi pledged on Wednesday during a long-awaited visit to the kingdom aimed at forging closer economic and security ties. In January, explosive-laden drones crashed into the main royal palace in Riyadh, with American …

01-04-2021 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) ABUJA/ MAPUTO/ ADDIS ABABA/ KARACHI: Anti-Shia Terrorist Organizations, Groups and Networks particularly al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Jihad Against …

01-04-2021 WASHINGTON: To beat China and modernize America’s crumbling transport network, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a “once-in-a-generation” $2 trillion infrastructure plan. The first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better” program, which he set out in a speech in Pittsburgh, details massive investment spread over eight years. Putting infrastructure …

01-04-2021 VICTORIA: A court in Hong Kong has found seven prominent pro-democracy politicians and campaigners guilty of unauthorized assembly over their role in a peaceful protest that was one of the biggest rallies in the Chinese-controlled city in 2019. Those convicted on Thursday include media tycoon Jimmy Lai, as well …

01-04-2021 ADDIS ABABA: The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL also known as ISIS/ Daesh/ al-Qaeda/ Taliban) killed at least 30 more Shia civilians in an attack on a village in the Ethiopian region of Oromia, witnesses said on Wednesday, the latest outbreak of ethnic violence to challenge the …

31-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani-American man has been nominated by US President Joe Biden for the position of a Federal Judge on the US District Court for the District of New Jersey. Zahid Quraishi will be the first Muslim American to serve …