18-06-2021 ABUJA: Armed attackers belong with ISIS have killed a police officer and abducted five teachers and an unknown number of students from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, police said. The attack took place on the Federal Government College in the remote town of Birnin Yauri …
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18-06-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Israeli fighter jets have launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip for the second time since a shaky ceasefire ended last month’s 11-day war. Palestinian sources on the ground said Israeli missiles on Thursday hit several sites belonging to armed groups northwest of …
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The dispute that has erupted on the popular social media site as Twitter is growing even more bitter for the central government. Twitter has lost the exemption from accountability it has received so for not enforcing the new IT rules. The new IT regulations brought in by the Center to …
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17-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand State in northern India has ordered a police inquiry into allegations of private labs filing fake COVID reports. Media reports say fake names, mobile numbers and addresses were used in more than 100,000 tests during the Kumbh festival in April. The private labs were …
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17-06-2021 GENEVA: US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talks on arms control and to return their respective ambassadors to their posts, after a summit in Geneva that highlighted their deep discord on human rights, cyber-attacks, election interference and Ukraine. The meeting on Wednesday …
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17-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: In a bid to revitalize the economy, Indian authorities on Wednesday reopened the Taj to the public as it reels from a disastrous second wave of the pandemic. The 17th-century white marble mausoleum, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the northern city of …
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17-06-2021 A village in the centre of Myanmar has been burned down after clashes between the security forces and local guerrillas, leaving at least two people dead. Residents told the BBC that 200 of the 240 houses in Kin Ma were razed to the ground by the military on Tuesday. …
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17-06-2021 BEIJING: China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country’s new space station. The three men, Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo are to spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km (236 miles) above the Earth. It will be China’s longest crewed …
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16-06-2021 GENEVA/ MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are holding their first meeting since Biden took office with wide disagreements likely and expectations low for any breakthroughs. The pair exchanged a brief handshake in front of reporters on Wednesday in Geneva, before entering a stately …
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16-06-2021 LOS ANGELES: Much of the western United States is braced for record heat waves this week, with approximately 50 million Americans placed on alert Tuesday for “excessive” temperatures, which could approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) in some areas. “A prolonged and record-breaking heat wave is underway across …
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