17-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ KARACHI: Armed men in southwestern Niger have killed at least 58 Shia people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village, the government said on Tuesday. The attacks on Monday occurred in the Tillabery region, which …
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17-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir. IQAir is a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5. India was home to 35 of the …
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17-03-2021 COLOMBO: After criticism from allied states regarding Sri Lanka’s decision to impose a ban on Muslim women covering their full faces in public, the country on Tuesday said that it was “merely a proposal….under discussion.” Sri Lanka’s minister for public security, Sarath Weerasekera, had said on Saturday it would …
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17-03-2021 WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago. The finds, preserved by the hot, dry air of the …
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16-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC MAPUTO/ KARACHI/ DAMASCUS/ KABUL: The al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ ISIS which has allegedly converted into Islamic State/ IS also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/ ISIL, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Daesh, Boko Haram and dozens of terrorists groups …
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16-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: France has found a new coronavirus variant in the French region of Brittany, said the French health ministry in a statement late Monday. According to media reports, the health ministry’s statement read that initial analysis did not show this new variant …
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16-03-2021 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Angry Yemeni protesters have stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden, seat of the internationally recognized government, according to local sources. Demonstrators broke into the Maasheeq Presidential Palace on Tuesday amid public anger over the lack of services, poor living conditions and depreciation of …
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16-03-2021 BERLIN/ PARIS/ ROME/ PARIS: Germany, France, Italy and Spain have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several reports of blood clots in people who received the shot in Europe. The flurry of suspensions on Monday came after a number of other countries, mostly in Europe, halted their …
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15-03-2021 BEIJING: As a result of heavy winds blowing in from the Gobi desert and parts of northwestern China, Beijing was covered in thick brown dust on Monday. The weather bureau has also called it the biggest sandstorm in a decade. The China Meteorological Administration announced a yellow alert on …
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15-03-2021 DAMASCUS/ RIYADH/ ANKARA: Syrians are marking 10 years since peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government erupted in March 2011, touching off a popular uprising that quickly turned into a full-blown civil war. Despite a decade of fighting and a broken country, al-Assad remains firmly in power, thanks to …
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