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World’s biggest methanol plant opens in Iran

06-08-2020 TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhnai has opened the world’s largest methanol plant located in an area on the coasts of the on the Persian Gulf as the country pushes ahead with plans to increase output of petrochemical products to offset the impacts of American sanctions on direct sale of …

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Beirut victims’ anger turns to fury

06-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk + Int’l Monitoring Desk BEIRUT: People in Beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday’s huge explosion. President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes …

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Facebook & Twitter restrict Trump accounts

06-08-2020 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Facebook and Twitter have penalized Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful Covid misinformation”. Twitter …

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Modi lays foundation for Ayodhya Ram temple

05-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies AYODHYA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ SRINAGAR: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid a foundation stone for the construction of a Hindu temple at a holy site that’s been at the center of the country’s most politically and culturally divisive land dispute. On Wednesday …

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Australians refuse to accept state writ

04-08-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Majority of Australians has refused to accept the writ of state while, neither the state has any plan to maintain its writ across the board nor the citizens consider governmental orders or alerts hence, the foreigners especially non-Aussies have any fear …

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Global coronavirus cases cross 18 million

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk TEHRAN/ MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON/ LONDON/ BERLIN/ NEW DELHI: More than 18 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus as of Monday. Almost 11 million have recovered and while nearly 690,000 have died. The …

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