Around 230 people between the ages of 12 and 65 were arrested on a range of charges, including unlawful assembly, “possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property” and failure to produce proof of identity, police said in a statement. More than 200 people were arrested during anti-government protests […]
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“It’s shameful,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a recent parliamentary session. “Anyone could get infected.” The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick, their families and health workers. A government campaign to raise awareness […]
Nineteen sailors have been killed and 15 others wounded in a “friendly fire” incident involving two Iranian naval vessels, the navy has said. Iranian state media reported that a new anti-ship missile being tested by the frigate Jamaran hit the light support ship Konarak on Sunday in the Gulf of […]
Dozens of Indian and Chinese soldiers have exchanged physical blows in a clash on the shared border, Indian media report. Seven Chinese and four Indian troops were injured, an army official reportedly said, near the Naku La sector in the border state of Sikkim. Local commanders spoke and resolved the […]
WASHINGTON: Former President Barack Obama has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it an “absolute chaotic disaster.” In a leaked web call Friday night with former members of his administration, Obama also said the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn, […]
President Donald Trump has tapped businessman Louis DeJoy, a top donor to the president and the Republican National Committee, to be the new head of the U.S. Postal Service. DeJoy, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a North Carolina-based businessman who formerly ran New Breed Corp., a private logistics […]
Some time ago, I was talking to a very senior politician from the Congress, a low-profile but powerful leader. I can’t give his name as the whole conversation was off-the-record. There was another journalist friend with me. We were talking about politics in general and Sonia Gandhi in particular. In […]
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Senator Shibli Faraz said Sunday he stood with journalists and that he joined their protest against Jang Geo Media Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to show “support, understand, and relate to your challenges”. Faraz arrived at the Parliament House area to […]
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said the workers and labourers form the backbone of our economy and announced the Congress Committee of every state will bear the cost for the rail travel of them. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has launched a scathing attack on the Centre for charging migrant labourers returning […]
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, taking the lives of more Americans in just nine weeks than were killed during the Vietnam War. US President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus response during a meeting with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy in the Oval Office at the White House […]