08-12-2021 NEW DELHI: At least 11 people were killed when an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and senior Indian defence officials on board, crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor Wednesday, as per Indian media reports. Indian news agency ANI tweeted about the crash, …
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08-12-2021 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and recently recovered from the United States, has been formally returned to Iraq. The $1.7m cuneiform tablet, known as the …
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08-12-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australian serial conman Peter Foster has been arrested, six months after he failed to appear in a Sydney court over an alleged Bitcoin fraud. Foster, 59, is accused of defrauding a Hong Kong man of AU$1.7m (£900,000; $1,2m) in cryptocurrency. Last year he was arrested in …
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08-12-2021 DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has said all government entities will adopt a new working-week schedule that will consist of four and half days, with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend. The move, announced by state news agency WAM on Tuesday, will come into effect on …
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07-12-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRUSSELS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ ISTANBUL:Th e United States, the European Union and 20 other countries have condemned the Taliban over allegations of summary killings of former police and intelligence officers in Afghanistan. The statement on Saturday came after Human Rights …
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07-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MOSCOW: Russia and India signed a flurry of trade and arms deals during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, including one that will see India produce more than 600,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Putin travelled to …
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07-12-2021 BASRA/ BAGHDAD: Several people have been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that rocked the centre of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. In a statement on Tuesday, the military said a motorcycle rigged with explosives was the cause of the blast, which sent …
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06-12-2021 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: The UAE’s top national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is on a visit to Iran for high-level talks that are seen as a possible sign of thawing relations between the two countries. Sheikh Tahnoon, a brother of the country’s de facto ruler and Abu …
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06-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Chairperson Waseem Rizvi, who has courted controversy on more than one occasion in the past over his bizarre views, has renounced Islam and decided to convert to Hinduism. As per Indian media reports, the infamous cleric was converted to …
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06-12-2021 DOHA: Qatar will host football’s 2022 World Cup, a tournament that will be played across eight stadiums in November and December next year. Al Jazeera looks at the status of all eight stadiums that will host the 2022 World Cup matches: Khalifa International Stadium Capacity: 40,000 Inauguration: May 2017 …
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