07-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Almost 110 to 160 of people are feared dead in India after a Himalayan glacier broke apart and crashed into a hydroelectric dam with people hurriedly being evacuated amid rising water levels on a nearby river. Footage from TV channels …
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07-02-2021 MYANMAR/ NAYPYITAW: Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Myanmar for a second consecutive day to protest against the country’s military seizing power, despite a nationwide internet blackout imposed to stifle dissent. In the main city Yangon, large crowds gathered on both Saturday and Sunday …
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07-02-2021 BAGHDAD: The Yazidi community of northern Iraq has brought home 104 of its members who were killed by the Islamic State group during its reign of terror in 2014. Their remains had been identified and exhumed from mass graves, and they were laid to rest in the village of …
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07-02-2021 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump should not continue to receive intelligence briefings normally available to former presidents because of his “erratic” behaviour, President Joe Biden said in a US media interview. “I just think that there is no need for him to have intelligence,” President Biden said in an interview with …
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07-02-2021 CAIRO/ DOHA: Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention without formal charges or trial. Hussein, an Egyptian national held under preventive detention since December 2016, was released from jail on Saturday. In a statement, Mostefa Souag, acting director general of the …
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06-02-2021 ANKARA: Over the last month, protests at a university overlooking the Bosphorus have spiraled into a challenge that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared with nationwide demonstrations that threatened his government eight years ago. Student outcry against a government-appointed rector at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious, …
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06-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BHAINSWAL: Thousands of farmers in a politically important Indian state on Friday rallied in opposition to new agricultural laws, signaling growing support for a months-long campaign to have the government reforms scrapped. Angry at what they see as legislation that benefits …
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05-02-2021 WASHINGTON: In his first foreign policy speech on Thursday, US President Joe Biden declared “America is back” on the global stage and announced to end support for the conflict in Yemen. While promising a new era after the scattershot foreign policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, he signaled aggressive …
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05-02-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ The creators of an Indian farmers’ protest “toolkit” shared by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will be investigated by police, authorities said, claiming it was designed to “encourage disaffection and ill-will” against the government. Tens of thousands of farmers have been …
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05-02-2021 WASHINGTON/ MYANMAR: Myanmar’s military should relinquish power and release officials and activists detained in a coup, US President Joe Biden said in his first foreign policy address on Thursday, as the UN Security Council issued a statement expressing “deep concern” at events in Myanmar. Biden said the United States was working …
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