30-01-2022 WELLINGTON/ KABUL: A pregnant New Zealand journalist denied re-entry to her home country to give birth said she has instead been offered refuge by the Afghan Taliban. “This just feels like such a breach of trust,” she said on Sunday (Jan 30) in an interview with Radio New Zealand. …
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30-01-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday on the first such visit, seeking to strengthen Gulf ties at a time of heightened regional tensions as world powers try to revive a nuclear deal with Iran. Sunday’s high-profile diplomatic trip comes more …
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30-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: As a part of its $2 billion defence deal of sophisticated weapons and intelligence gear, India had bought controversial Israeli-made Pegasus spyware in 2017, The New York Times reported. According to reports, India had reportedly signed the arms deal, the first by a prime minister, …
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30-01-2022 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said that Islamophobia is not acceptable at any cost and vowed to make his country safer for Muslims. Taking to Twitter, the Canadian premier wrote: “Islamophobia is unacceptable. Full stop. We need to put an end to this hate and make …
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30-01-2022 BALTIMORE: A “robotic surgeon,” developed at Johns Hopkins University in the USA, has set a new surgical record by performing four successful surgeries for the first time in the world. According to a study published in the journal Science Robotics, the robotic surgeon performed four abdominal operations on pigs …
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29-01-2022 BEIJING: A new type of coronavirus, NeoCov, has been detected in bats of South Africa. Scientists of Wuhan and Chinese researchers carried out research and studied that the virus may pose a threat to humans in the future if it mutates further, meida reported. NeoCov is closely related to …
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29-01-2022 LONDON: London police on Friday denied delaying a long-awaited government report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street that have put Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s future in jeopardy. Weeks of so-called “partygate” revelations forced Johnson to order a senior civil servant to look into the claims, and the report was …
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29-01-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH/ TEHRAN: Yemeni army forces and their allies fired a ballistic missile at the gathering positions of Saudi-sponsored militiamen in the country’s oil-rich central province of Ma’rib, killing dozens of militants. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, stated late on Wednesday that Yemeni …
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29-01-2022 TEGUCIGALPA: Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras, vowing to reform the crime-and-poverty-stricken nation into a “socialist and democratic state.” Castro, 62, took the oath at a massive ceremony attended by international dignitaries after an embarrassing week of fighting within her party …
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29-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s capital Delhi lifted a weekend curfew and allowed restaurants and marketplaces to reopen on Friday, following a sharp drop in new infections of COVID-19. Under new orders, however, the city will remain under night time curfew, and schools will be closed, Delhi’s lieutenant governor …
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