Day: September 3, 2019

Scores arrested in S.Africa looting, anti-foreigner protests

1:30 am September 3, 2019

Johannesburg: South African police on Monday arrested dozens of people following widespread looting and protests in the transport industry linked to a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment. At least 70 people have been arrested since hundreds of people marched through Johannesburg’s Central Business District (CBD) earlier on Monday, plundering shops and torching cars and buildings, the […]

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects COVID-19 shot, calls masks taboo

Defiant Bolsonaro vows to defend Amazon policy ‘in wheelchair’ at UN

1:25 am September 3, 2019

Sao Paulo: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro vowed Monday to defend his controversial Amazon policy at this month’s UN General Assembly even if he had to do so “in a wheelchair.” “I will appear before the UN even in a wheelchair, on a stretcher. I will appear because I want to talk about the Amazon,” Bolsonaro […]

French airline Aigle Azur to seek bankruptcy protection

1:22 am September 3, 2019

Paray-Vieille-Poste: France’s second-largest airline Aigle Azur plans to file for bankruptcy protection Monday and will seek a buyer after years of losing millions of euros, members of the company’s works council said. The move comes after a shareholder coup ousted chief executive Frantz Yvelin last week, accusing him of making “strategic mistakes over the past […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Iraq suspends US-funded TV station for 3 months over programme

1:18 am September 3, 2019

Baghdad: Iraqi authorities have suspended the license of a US-funded TV station for three months after airing a programme on alleged corruption within Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite religious establishments. The investigative report that was aired last week on Alhurra reported that senior religious figures are benefiting from businesses as a result of their connections with […]

Afghan foreign minister likely to visit India this month

Apparent attack ongoing in central Kabul

12:58 am September 3, 2019

Kabul: A massive explosion followed by the sound of small-arms fire rocked central Kabul late Monday in an apparent attack near an area that is home to several international groups. According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, the blast occurred near Green Village, a large compound that houses aid agencies and international organisations. No group […]