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03-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MENLO PARK (CALIFORNIA)/ HYDERABAD DECCAN (TALANGANA STATE OF INDIA): Facebook has banned a member of India’s governing Hindu nationalist party for violating its policies covering violence and hate speech, after the social media giant was accused of political bias. The company …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI/ LONDON/ BERLIN/ NEW YORK/  VATICAN CITY: India reported 78,357 new coronavirus cases in the past one day, taking its total to more than 3.7 million infections as the government eases pandemic restrictions nationwide. India registered 78,357 new coronavirus …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said the Indian army’s statement that its troops pre-empted the Chinese military’s actions, “fully proves that it was the first to illegally cross the border in an act of provocation”, Global Times reported. …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BAGHDAD/ PARIS/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Iraq on Wednesday and said the main challenges facing the country are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Daesh or ISIS) group fighters and foreign …

01-09-2020 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to put an end to more than three weeks of cross-border attacks, a statement issued on Monday said. In the latest escalation, Israel has bombed Gaza almost daily since August 6 in response to airborne incendiary devices and, less …

01-09-2020 SHANGHAI/ NEW DELHI: In light with a fresh border flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries, state-backed newspaper Global Times on Tuesday said that China is capable of making India suffer much more severe military losses than in the past if it wants to engage in competition. Indian forces foiled an attempt by Chinese …

01-09-2020 TEHRAN/ DUBAI/ JERUSALEM: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal toward normalizing ties with Israel, Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a speech on Tuesday. “Of course, the UAE’s betrayal will not last long, but this …

31-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ BANGALORE/ HYDERABAD: India’s economy shrank by 23.9 percent between April and June, the worst contraction on record since New Delhi started publishing quarterly statistics, government data showed on Monday. The steep dip in Asia’s third-largest economy in the …

31-08-200 RIYADH/ SANA’A/ WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has sacked two royals over corruption allegations and referred them to the anti-graft watchdog for an investigation, according to state media. In a royal decree issued early on Tuesday, King Salman removed Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as commander of …

31-08-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) MELBOURNE/ HYDERABAD DECCAN (TALANGANA STATE OF INDIA): Several First Information Reports (FIRs) and other cases have been registered against Syed Najaf Ali Shoukat, the President of Markazi Anjuman Matami Grouhan and the world most reputed and famous senior Indian journalist in continuation …