03-07-2026 KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) says confirmed Ebola cases in the country have reached 1,307 and include 377 deaths. In an update issued late on Monday, the country said the confirmed cases have been recorded in three provinces Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. The announcement …
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03-07-2026 NEW YORK: WhatsApp will let users go by usernames instead of phone numbers, closing a longstanding privacy gap on the app used by more than three billion people. The Meta-owned platform said on Monday that it has begun letting users reserve unique usernames before a wider rollout later this …
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03-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: For weeks now, Antu Sheikh has been going through a pile of documents stacked in a soiled plastic bag. Ever since his name was deleted from the electoral rolls in India’s West Bengal state, the 40-year-old railway construction worker fears he could lose more than …
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02-07-2026 DUBAI/ WASHINGTON: Iranian and US technical teams working on the implementation of an interim peace deal are expected to meet in Doha in the coming days, a source told media on Monday, after tit-for-tat weekend strikes threatened to derail the fragile accord. Mediators have established communications channels to de-escalate …
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02-07-2026 CARACAS: Rescue teams raced on Sunday to find more survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela this week, with signs of life bringing occasional relief to a grim quest to whittle down a list of tens of thousands missing. The death toll from Wednesday’s twin earthquakes neared …
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02-07-2026 NEW YORK: Roughly five Americans die every hour due to exposure to toxic road vehicle pollution, a new study has found. It’s the latest warning showing fossil-fueled transit is a major driver of mortality. In 2024 alone, the study found, more 41,800 premature deaths in the US were attributable …
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02-07-2026 PARIS/ WARSAW: Temperatures in Europe have hit a new high this summer, with hotter early-summer heatwaves resulting in illness, excessive deaths and the collapse of infrastructure. Temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions of the continent, including in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, impacting …
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02-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Apple has accused Indian antitrust investigators of “copy-pasting” its rivals’ claims and failing to properly conduct its own investigation in concluding the US tech giant breached competition laws, calling for the findings to be quashed, regulatory papers reviewed by media showed. The June 25 Apple …
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02-07-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: A new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Donald Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran “will no longer exist”. On Sunday, Tehran launched drone and missile attacks …
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02-07-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan struck targets of what it claimed were hideouts of an armed group in three Afghan provinces overnight and summoned Kabul’s envoy on Monday morning, after an assault on a Sindh Rangers base in Karachi over the weekend killed …
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