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20-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has reported almost 277,620 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,874, as nearly two-thirds of people tested showed exposure to COVID-19, a chain of private laboratories said, indicating a runaway spread of the virus. The South Asian nation’s …

20-05-2021 GAZA CITY/ TEL AVIV/ WASHINGTON: A senior Hamas official has said that he expects Israel and Gaza militants to reach a ceasefire “within a day or two” as cross-border attacks continue but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he was “determined to carry on” until “calm and security …

19-05-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Palestinian journalist Yusef Abu Hussein has been killed in an Israeli air raid that struck his house in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to his family and colleagues. Hussein, a broadcaster for the the local Voice of Al-Aqsa radio station, was among the four Palestinians killed …

19-05-2021 NEW YORK: The New York Attorney General’s Office said on Tuesday it has now opened a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s company, increasing the legal risk for Trump and his family. Attorney General Letitia James has been investigating whether the Trump Organization falsely reported property values to …

By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (By SJA Jafri) 19-05-2021 On 8th Shawwal in the year 1345 AH (April 21, 1925), mausoleums in Jannatul-ul-Baqi (holy city of Medina) were demolished by the then most controversial ruler of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) known as “King Ibn-e-Saud”. The Shia population of the …

19-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS/ GAZA CITY: “The Israel-Gaza conflict is pushing the whole region “in the wrong direction,” Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said Tuesday, calling for an end to the violence. “This all pushes us absolutely in the wrong direction. It means that we are …

18-05-2021 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged Pope Francis to help rally the world to adopt sanctions against Israel for its “massacre” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The phone call between Erdogan and the pontiff came as Turkey presses ahead with a furious diplomatic push to …

18-05-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIRUT/ GAZA CITY: Facing increasing pressure from rights advocates and members of his own Democratic Party, United States President Joe Biden has conveyed his support for a ceasefire to end violence in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on Monday, the White House said Biden “expressed his support …

18-05-2021 GENEVA: Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long hours. The report found that people living in …

18-05-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: An eight-million-year-old crocodile skull discovered in central Australia is now believed to be part of an extinct species new to scientists. The skull had been found about 200km (125 miles) from Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory (NT), in 2009. It was thought to belong …