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Saudi Arabia suspends entry from 20 countries from today

03-02-2021 RIYADH/ CAIRO: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suspended entry to the kingdom from 20 countries, with the exception of diplomats, Saudi citizens, medical practitioners and their families, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, the state news agency reported. “The Ministry of Interior announced that a temporary suspension for …

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Fire becomes out of control in Australia

03-02-2021 Bureau Report PERTH/ MELBOURNE: Firefighters have spent the night trying to contain a massive blaze burning near Perth, with temperatures across the fire ground at Wooroloo expected to climb into the mid-30s today. The bushfire has now destroyed 71 homes, Western Australia’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services confirmed …

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Twitter lifts restrictions on accounts covering India’s farmer protests

02-02-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies SAN FRANCISCO/ NEW DELHI: Twitter has removed the restrictions that it had allegedly placed on the coverage of India’s growing and controversial farmer protests, a local fact-checker who initially reported the development confirmed Monday evening. “All the accounts are back,” Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of and fact-checker …

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Aung San Suu Kyi detained in Myanmar

01-02-2021 MYANMAR (BURMA)/ DHAKA: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the governing party were detained in a series of early morning raids, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday, following days of escalating tension between her civilian government and the …

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Mass arrests across Russia during Navalny rallies

31-01-2021 MOSCOW: Russian police have detained thousands of people as protesters took to the streets across the country demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. On Sunday, police detained more than 4,000 people at protests in cities nationwide, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political arrests. More …

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