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10 killed, 27 injured in Kabul mosque blast

18-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least ten people including a prominent cleric were killed and 27 others wounded when a mosque packed with people was blasted on Wednesday evening, sources disclosed. Children are also among the wounded, according to a hospital source. Taliban government spokesman …

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India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

17-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees will continue to remain in detention centres and eventually deported. Earlier on Wednesday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and …

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A look at the world’s richest women

17-08-2022 LOS ANGELES: The richest woman in the world is L’Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers with a whopping $74.6 billion to her name, according to CEO World Magazine. Following the French businesswoman is Alice Walton, who is the American heiress to the wealth of Walmart. She has a net worth …

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Multiple bomb & arson attacks rock southern Thailand

17-08-2022 BANGKOK: Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people. The bombings and arson attacks happened after midnight and targeted convenience stores and a gas station across three provinces, lightly …

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‘Full-scale nuclear war may kill 5 billion’

16-08-2022 LONDON: In a modern nuclear war, five billion people will perish, but the impact of global starvation induced by sunlight-blocking pollution will likely far outweigh the losses inflicted by the explosions, Bloomberg reported, quoting a study. Rutgers University scientists drew out the impacts of six potential nuclear conflict scenarios. …

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