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19-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA: Australia has announced it will ditch its fleet of European-designed Taipan military helicopters a decade earlier than scheduled, replacing them with 40 Black Hawk choppers from the United States at an estimated cost of 2.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.97bn). US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp’s …

19-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest police obstruction of the country’s envoy during his visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement on Tuesday, the Jordanian foreign ministry said the Israeli envoy was handed “a strongly-worded letter of protest to be delivered immediately …

19-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Rights experts from the United Nations have deplored abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan’s religious minorities, urging the government to swiftly halt such practices. “We are deeply troubled to hear that girls as young as 13 are being …

19-01-2023 COLOMBO: Human rights groups have urged Sri Lanka to release a prominent student activist who was arrested five months ago during anti-government protests triggered by the country’s worst economic crisis. Wasantha Mudalige, who is being held without charges under a harsh anti-terrorism law, was brought before a magistrate in …

19-01-2023 NEW YORK: Some 40 countries on Monday called on Israel to lift sanctions it imposed on the Palestinian Authority earlier this month over its push to get the UN’s top court to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation. On December 30, the UN General Assembly passed a …

19-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: The delegate of the Yidindji Nation of aboriginal Australians has expressed solidarity and support for Sikh people’s right to self-determination through Khalistan Referendum In a well-attended press conference held in downtown Melbourne, the delegate of the Yidindji Nation of aboriginal Australians expressed support for …

19-01-2023 LAGOS: On Sunday, Nigerian policemen repelled an attack by unknown gunmen on the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the southeastern state of Enugu. The incident has reinforced persistent doubts that Nigeria’s general elections will proceed as planned next month. Banditry in the North West, secessionists …

19-01-2023 KYIV: The leadership of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry have died in a helicopter crash in a suburb of the capital Kyiv on Wednesday. “This morning, on January 18, a helicopter of the State Emergency Service crashed in Brovary.  As a result of the crash, the leadership of the Ministry of …

18-01-2023 PARIS: Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran. The Eiffel Tower display …

18-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ OTTAWA: Police in India have arrested two men in connection with the deaths of four people near the US-Canada border in January 2022. The bodies, including that of a three-year-old child, were found lying together frozen in a field in Canada’s Manitoba, 12m …