09-12-2021 DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 20 university students to death and five more to life imprisonment for the killing of a fellow student who criticised the government on social media. Abrar Fahad, a 21-year-old second year student of the country’s prestigious Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology …
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09-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WAZIRISTAN/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: After analyzing, scrutinizing, assessing, proofing and admitting hundreds of news stories of Press Media of India (PMI) and Messenger which have been flashing, highlighting, publishing, exposing and revealing since 90s by this correspondent (SJA Jafri), the top world media …
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09-12-2021 RIYADH/ PARIS: French police have arrested a Saudi national suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi officials said they believed it was a case of mistaken identity. The man was detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by …
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08-12-2021 NEW DELHI: At least 11 people were killed when an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and senior Indian defence officials on board, crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor Wednesday, as per Indian media reports. Indian news agency ANI tweeted about the crash, …
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08-12-2021 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and recently recovered from the United States, has been formally returned to Iraq. The $1.7m cuneiform tablet, known as the …
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08-12-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australian serial conman Peter Foster has been arrested, six months after he failed to appear in a Sydney court over an alleged Bitcoin fraud. Foster, 59, is accused of defrauding a Hong Kong man of AU$1.7m (£900,000; $1,2m) in cryptocurrency. Last year he was arrested in …
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08-12-2021 DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has said all government entities will adopt a new working-week schedule that will consist of four and half days, with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend. The move, announced by state news agency WAM on Tuesday, will come into effect on …
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07-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRUSSELS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ ISTANBUL:Th e United States, the European Union and 20 other countries have condemned the Taliban over allegations of summary killings of former police and intelligence officers in Afghanistan. The statement on Saturday came after Human Rights …
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07-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: Russia and India signed a flurry of trade and arms deals during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, including one that will see India produce more than 600,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Putin travelled to …
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07-12-2021 BASRA/ BAGHDAD: Several people have been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that rocked the centre of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. In a statement on Tuesday, the military said a motorcycle rigged with explosives was the cause of the blast, which sent …
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