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Fire breaks out at Iranian military base

14-02-202O TEHRAN: A fire broke out in a Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) military base in western Iran, local media reported, but the cause of the blaze was not immediately clear. The fire started in a stockroom where motor oil and other flammable materials were stored in the Mahidasht district of Kermanshah …

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America slams hijab ban in India

14-02-202O WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US official has voiced concerns about the controversial banning of the headscarf at schools and colleges in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, prompting a strongly worded rebuttal from New Delhi. Rashad Hussain, the US ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, said in a tweet on Friday …

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Sudan dismisses sanctions threats, lauds ties with Israel

14-02-2022 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has made comments in which he dismissed Western threats of sanctions tied to protests in the country and discussed meetings between Sudanese and Israeli officials he said were for security cooperation, not politics. In his first interview on state television since …

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Daesh kidnaps five UN staff in southern Yemen

14-02-2022 SANA’A: Five United Nations employees have been abducted by unknown armed men in southern Yemen while returning to Aden after a field mission but the kidnappers belong with Daesh (ISIL), sources told PMI. The staff were abducted on Friday in the Abyan governorate, according to Russell Geekie, a spokesman …

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French air raids kill 40 fighters in Burkina Faso

14-02-2022 PARIS/ OUAGADOUGOU: French forces have killed dozens of fighters in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighboring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said. The French-led Barkhane force in the Sahel region “engaged its air intelligence capacities to locate the armed group” responsible for …

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