Tuesday, 18 March , 2025
Judge Strikes Blow to US Immigration Enforcement Tactics 08 Feb 2020

Judge Strikes Blow to US Immigration Enforcement Tactics

A federal judge has prohibited US immigration authorities from relying on databases deemed faulty to ask law enforcement agencies to hold people in custody, a setback for the Trump administration that threatens to hamper how it carries out arrests.

Syria Forces Recapture Strategic Region in Aleppo 08 Feb 2020

Syria Forces Recapture Strategic Region in Aleppo

Syrian government forces, backed by allied militants from popular defense groups, managed to establish full control over a strategic region in the southern countryside of the country’s northern province of Aleppo from the al-Qaeda-linked militants.

Maldives Police Arrest Three over Hurting Chinese, Australian 06 Feb 2020

Maldives Police Arrest Three over Hurting Chinese, Australian

Maldives police on Thursday arrested three men over the stabbing of two Chinese nationals and an Australian and were probing their suspected links with ISI.

Cruise Ship Off Japan Has More Coronavirus Patients 06 Feb 2020

Cruise Ship Off Japan Has More Coronavirus Patients

Ten more people on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Thursday.

Amnesty: Saudi ‘Anti-Terror’ Court, A Weapon of Repression 06 Feb 2020

Amnesty: Saudi ‘Anti-Terror’ Court, A Weapon of Repression

Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try what it describes as terrorism cases as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peaceful critics, activists, journalists, and clerics, Amnesty International said Thursday.

Trump acquitted by Senate 06 Feb 2020

Trump acquitted by Senate

GOP-majority US Senate has voted that US President Donald Trump be acquitted of both articles of impeachment.

UNSC resolution draft slams Israel annexation plan 06 Feb 2020

UNSC resolution draft slams Israel annexation plan

A draft United Nations Security Council resolution condemned Israel’s plan for annexation of the settlements it has built illegally on occupied Palestinian territories.

Avalanche in Turkey Kills 38 06 Feb 2020

Avalanche in Turkey Kills 38

An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find people missing in an earlier avalanche.

Spread of virus shuts more Chinese cities 06 Feb 2020

Spread of virus shuts more Chinese cities

Millions of more people have been ordered to stay indoors as China battles to curb the spread of a new virus that authorities said Wednesday has already killed nearly 500 people.

UK Ought to Find Stable Trade Partners , Avoid Reliance on Trump 05 Feb 2020

UK Ought to Find Stable Trade Partners , Avoid Reliance on Trump

A Lebanese journalist and deputy editor of UNews Agency said the UK government should look for more stable trading partners after withdrawal from the European Union and not pin its hopes on the Trump administration that creates uncertainty in the global economy.