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NY Times loses awards over false reporting

19-12-2020 NEW YORK: The New York Times has returned an award and had another withdrawn after it found discrepancies in its podcast on the Islamic State group. After a two-month investigation, the newspaper said the podcast, Caliphate, failed to meet its editorial standards. In the 2018 series, Shehroze Chaudhry, one …

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Ex-Governor of Mexico shot dead

19-12-2020 MEXICO CITY: The former governor of Mexico’s troubled western state of Jalisco was shot dead on Friday, marking the latest of a series of violent attacks in a country already plagued by drug-related gangs. Aristoteles Sandoval was killed in an attack at 1.40am (07:40 GMT) in a restaurant’s toilet …

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Blast kills dozens at religious gathering in Afghanistan

18-12-2020 By SJA JAfri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan has killed and injured dozens, the country’s interior ministry said, adding that children may be among the victims. Those killed and wounded were attending a Quran recitation ceremony on Friday. Initial information …

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Boko Haram frees 344 Shia Nigerian students

18-12-2020 ABUJA: Hundreds of schoolboys who were kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria nearly a week ago have been released, a local official said late on Thursday, prompting joy and relief for families that had been praying for the boys’ safe return. Katsina state Governor Aminu Bello Masari said in a televised …

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India plans to begin COVID vaccination in January

18-12-2020 NEW DELHI: India expects to begin vaccinating people against COVID-19 in January, federal health officials told media. The officials – who requested anonymity – said a few vaccine candidates were likely to get emergency-use authorization from the drug regulator in the “next few weeks”. Two companies have already applied …

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