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12-02-2021 BEIJING/ LONDON: British television channel BBC World News has been barred from airing in China, the National Radio and Television Administration said Thursday. The development came  a week after Britain’s media regulator revoked Chinese state television’s broadcast licence. In a statement issued on the stroke of the Lunar New Year, …

12-02-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A United Nations convoy has been attacked on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, with unidentified gunmen killing five Afghan security force members who were escorting the international agency’s vehicles. An Afghan interior ministry official said the Taliban was believed to be behind the attack …

11-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report PARIS/ LONDON/ KARACHI: Riots are expected in France while the anger has increased across the world against anti-Muslim and anti-Islam legislation by alleged so-called human and civil rights champions known as ‘French Parliamentarians’ under the direct supervision of their President, sources …

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi congratulated the newly elected Mayor & Deputy Mayor of GHMC. The GHMC elections are over and the results are out and the Mayor and Deputy Mayor-elect have been named. TRS drew the majority and its candidates won. However, despite having the majority TRS named the Deputy …

11-02-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have agreed to disengage troops from a bitterly contested lake area in the western Himalayas, the Indian Defence Minister said, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border. Rajnath Singh told Parliament on Thursday the accord had been …

11-02-2021 RIYADH: Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from a Saudi prison after nearly three years behind bars, according to her family. “Loujain is at home!!!!!!” her sister Lina tweeted on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of al-Hathloul on a family video call. Another sister, Alia, said in …

10-02-2021 ANKARA/ MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Turkey’s proposal to not fully activate its controversial Russian S-400 missile system offers an olive branch to the new US administration to start negotiations over the issue that has severely strained bilateral ties, according to analysts. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said in an interview with a Turkish …

10-02-2021 RIYADH: A Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels has said the Yemeni group launched an attack on Abha airport, causing a fire in a civilian aircraft that was brought under control. “A cowardly terrorist attack by the Houthi militia on Abha International Airport … A civilian plane within the …

10-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LONDON/ KARACHI: The Britishers have become mad, they are the real human rights violaters, they need to learn basic ethics, elementary education (primary to lower-secondary), know about essential moral values and must obey the natural law and international customs as the remaining world …

09-02-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ KARACHI: Residents of UAE were put at ease after the case of “two moons” was solved Tuesday. According to UAE based publication Khaleej Times, the country’s social media was taken by storm after pictures and videos of two moons started to appear on their …