International

24 July, 2019 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: Russia says it has carried out its first ever joint air patrol with China, prompting both South Korea and Japan to send jets in response. The Russian defence ministry says four bombers, supported by fighter jets, patrolled a pre-planned route over the Sea of Japan …

23 July, 2019 WASHINGTON: The US government is introducing a new fast-track deportation process that will bypass immigration courts. Under the new rules, migrants who cannot prove they have been in the US continuously for more than two years can be immediately deported. Until now, expedited deportations could only be …

23 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: India has denied that PM Narendra Modi asked US President Donald Trump to mediate in the longstanding Kashmir conflict with Pakistan. The Indian foreign ministry said “no such request” was made, adding that all issues with Pakistan were “discussed …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan as he hosted Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House. After shaking hands and pausing for photos, as a large number of Pakistani-Americans gathered outside, Trump welcomed …

22 July, 2019 NEW DELHI: India has successfully launched its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag. Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) on Monday from the Sriharikota space station. India’s space chief said his agency had “bounced …

22 July, 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA: Hong Kong has been left in shock after a night of violence on Sunday, which saw dozens of masked men storm a train station. The men – dressed in white shirts and suspected to be triad gangsters – assaulted pro-democracy protesters and passers-by in …

22 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Jerusalem Post Neither this information is available in any library or achive of the world nor the Google has any data in this connection that during the last 70 years neither any of Aal-e-Saud (Saudi Ruler) issued any statement against Israeli regime nor …

22 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Jerusalem Post TEL AVIV/ MELBOURNE: Israeli bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of soldiers and police moved in to Palestinian village of Sur Baher on Monday to demolish about 100 more homes in Wadi al-Hummus area close to the separation wall despite Palestinian protests and …

22 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri DILI/ MELBOURNE: Neither the Chinese themselves nor rest of the world could understand Communism and none of one state of the world especially India and Pakistan are ready to realize their real enemies while both countries are still unaware about Chinese concealed and open …

21 July, 2019 By Naseh Shaker {(Yemeni Freelance Journalist), Courtesy MEE} On rocky hillsides overlooking the Saudi city of Najran, Houthi fighters are waging an attritional campaign, even as nearby towns and roads are being pounded by air strikes For three days Rafeeq al-Wadi and his cameraman trekked through the …