20 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ MELBOURNE: Three men have been killed in a triple stabbing in east London tonight – one of bloodbath Britain’s worst mass knifings. Police said the three victims, thought to be in their 20s or 30s, were pronounced dead at the scene …

19 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + PR KARACHI: Though the Article 19 of the constitution of Pakistan and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) guarantee freedom of expression and free media but media in Pakistan continued to be in chains or under strict form of physical intimidation like killings …

19 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy ABC News) MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: In the New South Wales Southern Highlands, about 100km south-west of Sydney, no matter what the season, there has always been one constant: green but not anymore. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News was this week given access to …

18 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD/ TEHRAN: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States should withdraw troops from Afghanistan in a responsible manner and avoid repeating the mistakes from the past. The remarks were made during an interview with American broadcaster Fox …

18 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies FLORIDA/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: Three more alleged members of a US neo-Nazi hate group have been arrested in Georgia, authorities say, in what appears to be a national operation. The arrests came on the same day that three suspected members of the …

18 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies SYDNEY/ QUEENSLAND: Heavy rains and thunderstorms have lashed parts of Australia’s east coast, dousing some of its fires but bringing a new threat of flooding to some areas. There have been downpours in the states of Victoria, New South Wales (NSW) and …

17 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ MELBOURNE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the country’s military after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. He said the Revolutionary Guard – the elite unit responsible for the disaster – “maintained the security” of …

17 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: A three-year-old girl and her pet dog have been found safe and well 24 hours after they went missing in Western Australia’s flood-hit Pilbara region. The girl was lost on Wednesday after wandering off from her home on Noreena Downs Homestead, around …

16 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: This summer’s bushfire disaster has already taken 28 lives directly, but countless others could suffer from the health impacts of prolonged exposure to toxic smoke. Medical experts warn the exposure will lead to future health problems in the longer term, with children …

16 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DAMASCUS/ RIYADH: Dozens of more Yemeni Shia Muslim civilians are reported to have died in Saudi led-coalition air strikes that hit a market and an industrial zone in the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib. A monitoring group said Russian and Syrian government …