02-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK/ KARACHI: Violence continues: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as protests continued overnight. The former officer who was seen with his knee on Floyd’s neck was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter as protesters demand charges for the …

31-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT POUL/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Protests have erupted in at least 30 American cities over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As unrest continued into the early hours of Sunday, …

29-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: A police station in Minneapolis has been set alight during a third night of protests over the death of an unarmed black man in custody on Monday. A police officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of George …

29-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The US National Guard has been deployed to Minneapolis after two nights of violent clashes following the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. George Floyd, 46, died on Monday and video showed him gasping for …

28-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: after an unarmed murder of a black man in “White American police custody, the clashes between protesters and police have raised for a second night in the US city of Minneapolis. Tear gas was fired by police, while …

28-05-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The United States of America (USA) has decided to end sanctions waivers allowing Russian, Chinese and European firms to continue work at certain Iranian nuclear sites, a US official and another source familiar with the matter told the Reuters News Agency …

27-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has ruled out pursuing charges against the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst or anyone else for her story revealing plans to extend the Australian Signals Directorate’s spying powers. The AFP deputy commissioner of investigations, Ian …

26-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SAINT PAUL/ WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will investigate the death of a black man in the US state of Minnesota after a video emerged showing a police officer kneeling on his neck. In the footage, the man believed to be …

25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has hinted that the country may be subjected to further lockdown if the number of coronavirus cases and deaths surged. Mirza, while speaking to the media …

25-05-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ OTTAWA: A senior Saudi security official who for years was the key go-between for Britain’s MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia is now being persecuted along with his family, according to former Western intelligence officials. Dr Saad al-Jabri, who helped …