04-01-2021 LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: A British judge is set to reveal whether she has approved Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where the WikiLeaks founder would face espionage charges for publishing secret US military documents. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser is expected to deliver the decision at 10:00 GMT on …
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04-01-2021 BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi mourners have condemned the “American occupiers”, a year after a United States drone strike killed Iran’s revered general Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The anniversary of their deaths in Baghdad which brought arch enemies the US and Iran to the brink …
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03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Gunmen have opened fire on a group of minority Hazara Shia Muslim coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in the southwestern Balochistan province, a Pakistani official has said. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the Levies Force which …
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03-01-2021 NIAMEY: The death toll in an attack on villages in Niger’s restive border regions has risen to more than 76, the country’s interior minister said on Sunday. Alkache Alhada said the attack took place on Saturday in the villages of Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye near the border with Mali. At …
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03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: American President Donald Trump could take “reckless” military action against Iran in his final days in office, experts have warned, as tensions between Tehran and Washington mount on the eve of the first anniversary of top Iranian general Qassem …
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03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ BAGHDAD: One of the four Blackwater Security Contractors pardoned last month by American President Donald Trump has said he “acted correctly” during a 2007 shooting rampage in Iraq in which 14 civilians were killed and 17 others wounded while the others also think their …
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02-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON: A United States federal appeals court on Friday reversed an order that vacated the January 11 execution of the only woman on federal death row, but allowed for further hearings that could cause the execution date to be delayed. The ruling, handed …
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01-01-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s drug regulator has approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters news agency. Friday’s approval paves the way for its rollout in the world’s second worst affected country. A representative …
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01-01-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has changed a line in its national anthem in an amendment designed to better recognise and honour the long history of the country’s Indigenous people. The change from “for we are young and free” to “for we are one and free” took effect on …
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01-01-2021 TEHRAN: An Iranian prosecutor has said a British security firm and an airbase in Germany had a hand in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani almost one year after the top general was assassinated by the United States in Iraq. The allegations come amid mounting tensions between the two countries, …
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