06-06-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Several anti-vaccination protesters were arrested after staging small demonstrations in Melbourne’s CBD today. The series of planned rallies outside of vaccination hubs failed to draw big crowds. About two dozen people were at a rally outside of Flinders Street Station where some were arrested for refusing …
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06-06-2021 TEHRAN: Seven candidates qualified to run in Iran’s June 18 presidential election have gone head-to-head in a televised debate, as controversy over the disqualification of other hopefuls persists. Saturday’s three-hour event focused on the economy, which has taken a big hit in the past three years under United States …
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06-06-2021 SHEIKH JARRAH/ JERUSALEM: Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Givara Budeiri has been released from custody several hours after she was arrested by Israeli police while covering a demonstration in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli police assaulted the Doha-based media network’s Jerusalem correspondent while arresting her on …
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06-06-2021 WASHINGTON: Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024. “I understand the place will be packed, …
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05-06-2021 TAORMINA: Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations reached a landmark accord on Saturday backing the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent in an effort to close cross-border tax loopholes used by some corporations. “We … commit to a …
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05-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OUAGADOUGOU: Armed assailants belong with an anti-Shia terrorist organization (also known as Taliban, an African form of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ IS Boko Haram) have killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, a Western African country. The …
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05-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ JHARKHAND: Indian police in the state of Jharkhand arrested seven people for having “mineral uranium” in their possession and for their plans to sell it in the black market, The Indian Express reported on Friday. The publication said that law enforcement authorities of the Indian state seized …
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05-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The United Arab List (UAL) is set to become the first party of Palestinian citizens of Israel to take part in a governing coalition after it agreed to join the new Israeli government to be led by Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
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05-06-2021 US airline United has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and “return supersonic speeds to aviation” in the year 2029. Supersonic passenger flights ended in 2003 when Air France and British Airways retired Concorde. The new Overture aircraft will be produced by a Denver-based company called Boom, …
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05-06-2021 SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he will hope to mend Russia’s damaged relations with the US when he will hold his first summit with President Joe Biden. The face-to-face meeting in Geneva on June 16 comes amid the biggest crisis in ties between the two …
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