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29-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ LONDON: Amnesty International says it is halting work in India due to a “continuing crackdown” and “harassment” by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The human rights watchdog said the bank account of its India branch has been frozen by …

29-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: The ancestral homes of two Bollywood legends are to be saved from crumbling into ruin in northern Pakistan. The houses belonged to the families of Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar who migrated to India in the years before Pakistan was created …

29-09-2020 LONDON/ BAGHDAD: Britain will hand back a 4,000-year-old sculpture to Iraq after an investigation found that it had been looted, the British Museum said on Monday. Museum experts were called by a specialist London police unit after an online sales platform offered the artefact for sale in May last …

29-09-2020 ANKARA/ RIYADH/ WASHINGTON: Turkish prosecutors have filed a second indictment against 6 (six) Saudi suspects over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, according to Turkey’s state news agency. Anadolu news agency said on Monday that two of the suspects were facing charges …

28-09-2020 NASHVILLE/ WASHINGTON: A Muslim teenage girl says she was “angry” after a match referee, citing the school’s rulebook, gave her a choice to either remove her hijab during volleyball or be disqualified. She chose to sit it out. According to CNN, first-year student Najah Aqeel studies at Valor Collegiate Prep …

28-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Student visa services for Pakistan will resume on October 1, Thursday, the US embassy in Pakistan said in a statement on Monday, after it had been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to a statement, the services will be commenced at …

28-09-2020 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: The New York Times has reported that US President Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, citing tax return data. Trump also paid no income taxes in 10 of the last 15 years, the newspaper reported on Sunday, despite …

27-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: India will use its resources “for all humanity” in the battle against coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the United Nations on Saturday. In his address to the virtual UN General Assembly Modi made no direct mention of …

27-09-2020 TEHRAN: Condemning the United States, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said people should blame Washington for the “crimes and pressure” facing the country, as waves of US sanctions impact the struggling economy. “They prevented the purchase of medicines and food by imposing unjust, illegal, and inhuman sanctions,” Rouhani …

27-09-2020 Bureau Report MACQUARIE/ MELBOURNE: A total of 108 surviving pilot whales have been released back into the sea after a mass stranding in Australia, marine experts say. They believe Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast is now clear of live whales but about 350 whales died in what is …