23-02-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: Last week, a video of a controversial religious guru, who is serving long jail sentences for rape and murder, went viral in India. It showed Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, out of prison on parole and cutting …
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23-02-2023 PARIS/ SAINT-JEAN-LUZ: A high school student has stabbed a Spanish teacher to death in a school in the French town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. French government spokesperson Olivier Véran confirmed Wednesday’s attack and said the perpetrator was 16 years old. Police attended Saint-Thomas d’Aquin School with the local prosecutor, where the …
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23-02-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden’s administration has unveiled a plan that would make it harder for migrants to claim asylum once COVID border controls lift in May. It would require adult asylum seekers to use an app to book a meeting with US officials or first claim asylum in …
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23-02-2023 NEW YORK: A daughter of murdered black civil rights activist Malcolm X says she is suing New York City Police Department and other agencies for his 1965 murder. Ilyasah Shabazz says US officials fraudulently concealed evidence that they “conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate” her father. She …
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23-02-2023 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: US President Joe Biden has rallied NATO allies in Poland, proclaiming “unwavering” support for Kyiv as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announces suspension of Moscow’s role in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington. Fresh from his surprise visit to Ukraine, Biden used Tuesday’s trip to garner support …
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23-02-2023 LONDON: Shamima Begum, the British national who travelled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has lost her latest legal attempt to regain citizenship. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a tribunal …
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23-02-2023 RAMALLAH/ WEST BANK: At least 11 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The ministry said on Wednesday that at least 50 of the injured were hit by live ammunition. …
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23-02-2023 NEW YORK: The families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks cannot seize $3.5 billion in funds belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank, a New York federal judge ruled Tuesday. The assets, held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were frozen on August 15, 2021, the …
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23-02-2023 SEOUL: South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, has dropped yet again in the latest setback to the country’s efforts to boost its declining population. The national statistics body reported Wednesday that the fertility rate, or the average number of children expected per woman, fell to 0.78 in …
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22-02-2023 JANDARIS: An infant child born in northern Syria during this month’s devastating earthquake was reunited on Saturday with her aunt and uncle, after her parents and siblings died in the disaster. Footage circulating widely on social media after the quake showed a rescuer scrambling down a hill of rubble …
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