04-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CAIRO/ SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS: The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will face some form of food crisis next year, according to United Nations agencies. More than half …
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03-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ MELBOURNE: The French government has launched a “massive and unprecedented” wave of measures to combat what it calls religious “extremism”, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said, adding that 76 mosques are suspected of “separatism”. Darmanin on Thursday tweeted his interview …
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03-12-2020 TEHRAN: Iran has moved to stop UN inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment under a new law approved by its parliament. The bill would require the government to resume enriching uranium to 20% – well above the 3.67% agreed under a 2015 nuclear deal – …
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02-12-2020 LONDON: British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, green-lighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. The go-ahead for the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech comes …
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02-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks on the continuing farmers’ protests in India have not gone down well with the Hindu nationalist government, which dubbed his comments as “unwarranted”. “We have seen some ill-informed comments by Canadian leaders relating to …
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01-12-2020 BEIJING/ CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: China has refused to apologize for a controversial image depicting an Australia soldier cutting the throat of an Afghan child as New Zealand became the latest country to voice its criticism of the doctored picture, which was posted to social media by a foreign ministry spokesman. …
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01-12-2020 TEHRAN/ TEL AVIV: Israel assassinated a top Iranian nuclear scientist using remote-controlled technology, a senior Iranian security official alleged on Monday. “Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was done using electronic equipment and no [perpetrators] were at the scene,” Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, …
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01-12-2020 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia agreed to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, news agency Reuters and Israeli media outlets have reported. Kushner and Middle East envoys Avi Berkowitz and …
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30-11-2020 CAMBRIDGE: American biotechnology company Moderna Inc on Monday announced that its under-trial drug for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has shown 94.1% efficacy against the disease and a 100% efficacy in the severe cases. In a press release, the Massachusetts-based company said its coronavirus drug candidate, named mRNA-1273, was “generally well tolerated” …
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30-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DOHA: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for talks aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring Gulf countries, according to media reports in the United States. A senior official …
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