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01 April, 2020 WASHINGTON: There was no sugar-coating it this time. No optimistic talk of miracle cures or Easter-time business re-openings. There was just the cold, hard reality of the facts on the ground. “I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,” a grave-faced …

01 April, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Int’l News Desk NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: The United Nations chief has warned the coronavirus pandemic presents the world with its “worst crisis” since World War-II (WW-II), with the number of dead in the United States now higher than in …

31 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Chairman and printer, publisher of the Jang Group, Mir Javed ur Rahman (MJR), the eldest son of the late visionary Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman (MKE), and elder brother of Jang Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman (MSR), passed away in Karachi on Tuesday. …

31 March, 2020 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BAREILLY: An investigation has been launched after a group of migrant workers were filmed being doused in a “chemical solution” by Indian officials. They are understood to be migrants who returned to the city of Bareilly, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. …

30 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencie + Int’l Monitoring Desk + Bureau Reports KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YTORK: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 1,670 on Monday after new cases were reported across the country. The province-wise breakup of the total number of cases …

30 March, 2020 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif once again condemned Washington’s refusal to lift its sanctions against Tehran amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, urging the world to “stop obeying immoral and illegal sanctions” against Iranians. Zarif enumerated a series of US actions against Iran, from cyber-attacks …

29 March, 2020 BAMAKO/ KATI: Polls have opened in Mali’s long-delayed parliamentary elections despite concerns about security and the coronavirus pandemic. Sunday’s vote came hours after the violence-hit West African country announced its first coronavirus death and days after main opposition leader Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The …

29 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ JIZAN/ DUBAI: Ballistic missiles were intercepted on Saturday in the sky above Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh and the southern city of Jizan, state media reported, citing its own sources and the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Residents in Riyadh reported at …

28 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian government has defended its handling of the coronavirus outbreak after a strict lockdown – introduced with little warning – left millions stranded and without food. The country’s response had been “pre-emptive, pro-active and graded”, it said in a …

28 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis delivered a message of hope to the world amid the coronavirus pandemic. He did so in a hauntingly empty St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, as Italy is completely locked down to stop the virus spreading. “Like the …