Bangladesh weighs death penalty for rapists as protests flare 11-10-2020 DHAKA: Protests rocked Bangladesh on Saturday as hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice after a series of rapes and sexual assaults that have spurred the government to seek capital punishment for offenders. Such incidents have surged …
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11-10-2020 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis have once again demonstrated to demand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation, saying he is unfit to rule while on trial for corruption charges and accusing him of mismanaging the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Protesters on Saturday gathered at hundreds of locations across …
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11-10-2020 WASHINGTON: The US President Donald Trump is no longer a COVID-19 transmission risk to others, the White House physician has said. Sean Conley’s memo is the first update on Trump’s health since Thursday. Earlier on Saturday the president delivered a speech in front of cheering supporters at the White …
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10-10-2020 BISHKEK/ MOSCOW: After nearly two weeks of fierce clashes, the two arch-rivals, Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday reached to a ceasefire and to initiate “substantive talks” over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Bitter fighting in the central Asian region has claimed hundreds of lives, forced thousands to flee, and …
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10-10-2020 WASHINGTON: The next United States presidential debate has been cancelled, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) confirmed late Friday, after US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, disagreed this week over the possibility of holding the event virtually. In a statement, the CPD said the debate, which …
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09-10-2020 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan has banned Chinese social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunications authority said. The decision came after a number of complaints from different segments of society, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a statement …
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09-10-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he feels well enough to resume campaign activities and rejected the virtual format planned for his next debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden slated for October 15. The format switch intended to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 in light of …
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09-10-2020 BISHKEK: The former president of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, survived an assassination attempt in Bishkek when his car was shot at; Russia’s RIA news agency cited an aide as saying. Friday’s apparent assassination attempt against Atambayev, who was freed from prison amid unrest following a disputed October 4 parliamentary vote, …
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09-10-2020 OSLO: The United Nations’ World Food Program on Friday won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee said that the coronavirus …
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09-10-2020 LANCING (MICHIGAN)/ WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Mrs Whitmer has become a lightning rod for coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict mitigation measures that were overturned by a judge last week. Officials say …
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