05-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Afghans fled their homes as fighting erupted between government forces and the Taliban in the country’s southern province days after the US military began its withdrawal from the war-torn country, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan forces pushed back …
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05-05-2021 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The UK and India have struck a deal allowing thousands of young adults to work and live in each other’s countries for two years. The Home Office said the scheme for 18 to 30-year-old professionals would allow “the brightest and best” to come to …
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05-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australian Test cricket great Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint for ransom and then badly beaten. NSW Police confirmed the former leg spinner had allegedly been abducted, held and then released in an incident which occurred last month. Robbery and Serious …
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05-05-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting in London was hit by a COVID-19 scare on Wednesday when India’s foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating after two delegation members tested positive. Britain is hosting the three-day meeting – the first such G7 event in …
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4-05-2021 By Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KARACHI/ TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ KABUL/ MELBOURNE: Despite fastest rise of COVID-19 infections, deaths and vaccinations and beside strict bans on processions and gatherings and neglecting all types of rumors and possible reactions, threats and results, millions of people observed Youm-e-Ali …
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04-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ KABUL/ PARIS: The International Press Institute, an international organization that protects journalism against censorship, warns that dictatorial-minded governments are stepping up their efforts to suppress free media. According to the annual report of the institute, which was released on the occasion of …
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04-05-2021 MEDINA (WASHINGTON): Billionaire couple Bill Gates and Melinda Gates on Monday afternoon announced they had decided to end their 27-year long marriage as “they can no longer grow as a couple”. The announcement from one of the world’s wealthiest couples, with an estimated net worth of some $130 billion, …
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03-05-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, issued an apology Sunday for comments that he said “annoyed” the country’s supreme leader. Recordings surfaced late last month of Zarif, long the public face of Iranian diplomacy, saying the Revolutionary Guards had far more influence in foreign and nuclear affairs than …
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03-05-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting “more repressively” at home and “more aggressively” overseas as it tests its growing influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, in an interview on US television. “What we’ve witnessed over the last several years is …
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03-05-2021 PARIS: The “World Press Freedom Day” is being observed across the world, with emphasis on defeating censorship and journalists resolving to keep pursuing their mission without compromising their ideals. According to UNESCO, the theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day is “Information as a Public Good”. “It serves as …
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