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25-05-2021 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised a “very powerful response” if Hamas breaks a ceasefire that ended a deadly 11-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu made the comment in West Jerusalem on Tuesday during a joint press conference with American Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who …

  24-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has crossed 300,000 coronavirus deaths, the third country after the United States and Brazil to hit the grim figure, as it battles a huge second wave of infections now affecting the poorer countryside. India’s health ministry on Monday reported 4,454 coronavirus-related deaths over …

24-05-2021 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Saturday called for “full adherence to the ceasefire” agreement reached between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in its first statement since violence erupted on May 10. Security Council members also stressed “the immediate need for humanitarian assistance to the …

24-05-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: People have rallied in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in advance of the one-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, which sparked mass protests across the United States for an end to police violence against Black people. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder last month after he held his …

23-05-2021 JERUSALEM/ MADRID Dozens of Jewish settlers, flanked by heavily armed Israeli Special Forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem in the early morning, hours after Palestinian worshippers were beaten and assaulted by Israeli police, according to the Islamic authority overseeing the site. Citing witnesses, Palestinian news …

23-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of COVID-19. The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have …

23-05-2021 By S. Najaf Ali Shoukat NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ PARIS/ ROME/ BERLIN/ CANBERRA: On the basis of exclusive reporting, elite coverage and influential news of a senior investigative journalist, Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri), who is associated with Press Media of India (PMI) as Bureau Chief Australia …

23-05-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM/ THE HAGUE: GAZA CITY: Cafes reopened, fishermen set out to sea and shopkeepers dusted off shelves Saturday as Gazans slowly resumed their daily lives after deadly 11-days of violence against Palestinians by Israel. Aid trickled into the Gaza Strip, the blockaded enclave controlled by the Hamas …

23-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases has reached 26,528,846, and the death toll stands at 299,296. India continues to be second-most-affected globally. The six most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5,527,092), Karnataka (2,367,742), Kerala (2,293,632), Tamil Nadu (1,770,988), Uttar Pradesh (1,659,265), and Andhra …

22-05-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: A ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding, but there have been tensions in occupied East Jerusalem where Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and fired tear gas at Palestinians after Friday prayers. The Egyptian-brokered …