05-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ MELBOURNE: An Islamic State (IS) group, a terrorist wing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for an attack Sunday that killed 11 miners from Pakistan’s minority Shiite Hazaras in Balochistan province. The attack took place early on Sunday morning …
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04-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Hundreds of members of Pakistan’s ethnic Shia Hazara community have held a protest against the killing of 10 coal miners in a targeted attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, refusing to bury their dead until the government meets …
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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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