10-03-2023 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A bomb blast in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has killed three people, including its Taliban governor, police said. “Two people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh, have been killed in an explosion this morning,” police spokesman Asif Waziri said on Thursday. Waziri said …
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10-03-2023 ROME/ CUTRO: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will hold a cabinet meeting on Thursday near the site of a deadly shipwreck, as debate rages over whether the right-wing government’s migration policies cost lives. Meloni is expected to pay homage to the victims of the February 28 disaster, in which …
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09-03-2023 TBILISI: Protesters have clashed with police in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, after parliament backed a controversial draft law which critics say limits press freedom and suppresses civil society. Riot police used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse the crowds outside the parliament building. Some protesters were seen falling on …
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09-03-2023 MEXICO CITY: The four Americans were hauled off in a pick-up truck. Mexican authorities frantically searched as the cartel allegedly involved moved them around even taking them to a medical clinic “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them”, Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal said. They were found on …
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09-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Washington, DC to meet with US President Joe Biden, where an announcement on Australia’s plans to build nuclear-powered submarines is expected. Albanese, who was scheduled to arrive in India on Wednesday, gave few details of …
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09-03-2023 GENEVA: A British draft law unveiled Tuesday aimed at stopping migrants entering illegally on small boats will amount to an asylum ban, the UN warned, calling for “more humane” solutions instead. The United Nations refugee agency said it was “profoundly concerned” by plans that would give the British interior …
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09-03-2023 TOKYO: Japan’s new medium-lift rocket failed on its debut flight in space on Tuesday after the launcher’s second-stage engine did not ignite as planned, in a blow to its efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The 57-metre (187 ft) tall H3 …
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09-03-2023 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka expects final approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $2.9 billion loan in the third or fourth week of this month, the president said on Tuesday, adding that new support from China means all funding requirements had been met. The country of 22 million …
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09-03-2023 GENEVA: United Nations rights Chief Volker Turk on Tuesday demanded action from Beijing to address “grave concerns” over the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang province. Turk has been under pressure from Western nations and rights organizations to take a firm stand on Xinjiang following a bombshell report by …
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09-03-2023 LONDON: Rishi Sunak has said he is “up for the fight” to bring in new legislation to prevent migrants crossing the Channel on small boats to reach the UK. The prime minister said he was confident the government would win any legal battles over the “tough, but necessary and …
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