27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Australia has told 13 Special Forces soldiers that they face dismissal in relation to a report on alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan, the head of the country’s army said on Friday. Lieutenant General Rick Burr, the head of …

27-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QUEBEC CITY/ OTTAWA: The man convicted of fatally shooting six Muslim men at a mosque in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2017 will be able to apply for parole in 25 years, an appeals court has ruled, saying Alexandre Bissonette’s previous sentence was …

26-11-2020 PARIS: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered several Paris police officers suspended after the publication of videos showing them beating up a Black man and using tear gas against him with no apparent reason. The incident came as President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing a new bill that restricts …

26-11-2020 ANKARA: A Turkish court has jailed 337 former pilots and other suspects for life over plot to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a failed coup attempt four years ago, a court document obtained by sources showed on Thursday. Nearly 500 defendants were accused of carrying out the attempt to overthrow …

26-11-2020 BUENOS AIRES: Football superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo “could not even dream” of being admired as much as Diego Maradona was, says his former Argentina team-mate Ossie Ardiles. Three days of national mourning have begun in Argentina after Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60. His body …

25-11-2020 DAMASCUS/ DUABI/ RIYADH/ SANA’A: The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen says a commercial vessel has suffered minor damage from a blast in what it described as a foiled “terrorist act”, state media reported. The blast on Wednesday hit the MT Agrari, a Maltese-flagged, Greek-managed vessel offs …

25-11-2020 DAMASCUS/ DUBAI/ RIYADH/ SANA’A: Blast off the coast of Shuqaiq near Yemen border hits a Maltese-flagged, Greek-managed vessel. An explosion has damaged an oil tanker off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea near the border with Yemen, according to a private security firm. The blast on …

25-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: A convicted terrorist has been stripped of his citizenship ahead of his release from Victorian prison. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton confirmed Algerian-born Abdul Nacer Benbrika, spiritual leader of Australia’s largest terror network, had his Australian passport cancelled on November …

25-11-2020 WASHINGTON/ WILMINGTON: Declaring “America is back,” US President-elect Joe Biden introduced selections for his national security team Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on foreign policy and national security experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his …

24-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ BAMIYAN/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens more Shia Muslims martyred and injured when two explosions ripped through the city of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, according to officials. Police Chief of Eponymous province Zabardast Safai said on Tuesday the explosives were hidden at the side of …