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Sydney beaches close after shark attacks dolphin

22-01-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Several popular beaches in Sydney have been closed after sharks attacked a dolphin in waters near the city. At least two bull sharks were spotted in the Shelly Beach area, in northern Sydney, after the attack and authorities closed all nearby beaches as a precaution. The …

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Macron proposes big rise in French defence budget

22-01-202 MONT-DE-MARSAN: France will boost military spending by more than a third in coming years, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, as he unveiled ambitions to transform the French army to deal with the great “perils” of this century. Acknowledging the end of the “peace dividend” of the post-Cold War …

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India orders YouTube to remove Modi’s BBC documentary

22-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s government has allegedly ordered Twitter and YouTube to remove links to a BBC documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reported local Indian media. On the microblogging and video-sharing networks, several tweets and YouTube videos from the documentary “India: The …

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60 women & children freed in Burkina Faso after kidnapping

OUAGADOUGOU: Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Television du Burkina (RTP) said on Friday. The mass kidnapping was unprecedented in Burkina Faso, which is facing a violent terrorist insurgency that spread from neighboring Mali in 2015. …

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Turkey cancels Sweden visit over planned protest

22-01-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkey on Saturday called off a visit by Sweden’s defence minister over a planned demonstration by right-wing activists in Stockholm. Turkey has been angered by permission obtained by Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish-Danish politician whose anti-Islam actions sparked riots across Sweden last year, to stage a protest in front …

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Canada unveils goal to support domestic rocket launches

22-01-2023 WASHINGTON: Canada on Friday announced a multi-year plan to support the first privately built rocket launches in the country and develop new launch regulations, as global demand for space-based services soars. The goal, presented at the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters by transportation minister Omar Alghabra, is aimed at significantly …

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Gender debate divides United Kingdom

21-01-2023 LONDON: What is a Woman? Wasn’t this question already settled? Didn’t the fight for women’s equality end with protections being enshrined in law, in the case of the UK, in the 2010 Equality Act that covers women’s sex-based protections? Apparently not. This week, the UK has witnessed an explosion …

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