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NZ’s borders fully open after long pandemic closure

01-08-2022 WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s borders fully re-opened to visitors from around the world on Monday, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic closed them in March 2020. New Zealand’s borders started reopening in February first for New Zealanders and restrictions have progressively eased. The process of reopening the borders …

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India confirms Asia’s first monkeypox death

01-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KOCHI: India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak. Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil it’s first. The …

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Turkey vows to work with Syria against Daesh

31-07-2022 ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS/ TEHRAN: Turkey pledged to assist the Syrian government in efforts to oust Kurdish militia based in the country’s northeast that Ankara regards as “terrorists”, despite a recent spike in tensions, the country’s top diplomat said. Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, stated in an interview with TV100 that …

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Chinese rocket falls to Earth over Indian Ocean

31-07-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: A Chinese rocket fell back to Earth on Saturday over the Indian Ocean but NASA said Beijing had not shared the “specific trajectory information” needed to know where possible debris might fall. U.S. Space Command saidthe Long March 5B rocket re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approximately …

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Savitri Jindal of India is now Asia’s richest woman

30-07-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Yang Huiyan is no longer Asia’s richest woman, as the country’s developers, including her Country Garden Holdings Co are battered by China’s property crisis. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Yang has been overtaken by India’s Savitri Jindal. The founder of the conglomerate Jindal Group, …

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