16-03-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + BBC MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND/ TOWNSVILLE: Once again, another alleged state crime, deliberate negligence and committed human discrimination exposed when world media reported about a teenage boy’s solitary detention and almost half of the world population declared Australian authorities are more worse than anyone, …

16-03-2023 TEHRAN/ BEIJING: Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia countries at odds with the United States are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, China’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Other countries are also taking part in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises, the ministry said without giving details. …

16-03-2023 DAMASCUS: Twelve years ago, protesters dared to take to the streets of Syria to protest against the country’s government and its president, Bashar al-Assad. The protests quickly took on a revolutionary nature, demanding the “fall of the regime”, but, after a violent response from the government, the uprising transformed …

16-03-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: A climate protestor jailed in a case that sparked uproar in Australia has had her sentence overturned on appeal. Deanna “Violet” Coco was given a 15 month prison term for blocking a lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last April. Advocates had argued the …

16-03-2023 PARIS: Portuguese tourist Fabio Figueirado wanted to admire beautiful buildings on a romantic getaway in Paris, but instead he and his partner have found themselves navigating pavements piled high with garbage. “I’ve never seen a city with so much trash on the street,” said the 25-year-old, near a mound …

16-03-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Emirati authorities on Wednesday of arbitrarily detaining for over 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have not qualified for resettlement elsewhere. Many of the Afghans in Emirates Humanitarian City are …

16-03-2023 COLOMBO: Thousands of workers at hospitals, schools and railways across Sri Lanka have gone on strike to protest against high costs of living, including increased taxes imposed as a precondition for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, amid the country’s worst financial crisis in decades. Schools on Wednesday cancelled …

16-03-2023 LILONGWE/ MAPUTO/ ANTANARIVO: Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit the coast of Southern Africa for a second time over the weekend, bringing its total death toll to more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar. The month-long storm has broken at least one record and could break two more, meteorologists …

16-03-2023 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: The encounter between Russian jets and a US drone, which resulted in the drone crashing into the Black Sea, appears to be the most significant publicly acknowledged US-Russia confrontation since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. As such, it raises a lot of …

15-03-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Supporters of Pakistan’s main opposition leader Imran Khan have clashed with police outside his home as officers try to arrest him. Police fired tear gas shells to disperse the supporters, who threw stones and bricks. There is a tense situation …