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03-10-2020 MOSCOW: A Russian News Editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Authorities confirmed her body had been found …

02-10-2020 MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON: American President Donald Trump has condemned all white supremacist groups following controversy over remarks he made during the first presidential debate. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday he explicitly condemned the Proud Boys group which in the debate he had urged to “stand back and …

02-10-2020 CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON: New Zealanders are to be granted access to Australia in the first opening of international borders by either nation since Covid restrictions were imposed. People will be able to fly from New Zealand to New South Wales and the Northern Territory – and avoid mandatory quarantine – …

02-10-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said he and the US first lady are in quarantine after one of his closest aides tested positive for coronavirus. He tweeted that both he and Melania Trump were now awaiting their own test results after Hope Hicks was infected. The 31-year-old adviser …

02-10-2020 BRUSSELS/ ANKARA/ ATHENS: The EU says it could impose sanctions on Turkey over “provocations and pressures” in a row with Greece over energy resources and maritime borders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Ankara to “abstain from unilateral actions” in the eastern Mediterranean. She spoke early …

02-10-2020 BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqis gathered in the capital and the country’s south on Thursday, marking the first anniversary of the start of unprecedented protests demanding the fall of the ruling class. The protests, which lasted months before running out of steam, will be revived, demonstrators said, if no reform …

01-10-2020 SACRAMENTO (CALIFORNIA): Flames devoured swaths of brush and trees in Northern California amid unseasonably hot and dry weather. Officials said wind-whipped flames led two firefighters to deploy the emergency fire shelters they carry. The firefighters were assigned to the Glass fire burning in wine country north of San Francisco on …

01-10-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: After Brenton Tarrant another “White Terrorist” namely Stipe Lozina has been sent to jail in Australia ‘over the public pressure’ while the dozens are in queue to face imprisonment against their severe crimes and terrorism bids if their trials run speedy …

30-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DUBAI/ CAIRO: A rights organization established by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi months before his controversial killing in 2018 at the hands of a Saudi hit squad in Turkey has now been opened in the United States. The official launch …

30-09-2020 WASHINGTON: The first of the three debates between US President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden on Wednesday was a heated one, with both men trading insults back and forth as the Democratic nominee told Trump to “shut up” and called him “clown” two times. Trump frequently …