17-04-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned a request by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to include its demands in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, accusing them of trying to derail the continuing talks in Vienna. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denounced the “irresponsible and immature” statement earlier …
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17-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with daily cases hitting another record increase of 234,692 nationwide and families clamoring for drugs and hospital beds. The health ministry said the latest number is the eighth …
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17-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies SANA’A/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Yemen’s missile force and air force have carried out a joint operation using eleven missiles and drones attacking a facility belonging to Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil giant and other sensitive targets in the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region, a spokesman said. “Aramco and …
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17-04-2021 SANA’A: Some 96 combatants lost their lives as a result of heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib over the last two days, loyalist commanders said Friday. The fight broke out after Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government´s last northern toehold. “Clashes between the two sides …
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17-04-2021 TUNIS: At least 41 people have died after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement on Friday they are …
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17-04-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia has responded in kind to a barrage of new sanctions by the United States, saying it would expel 10 US diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in a tense showdown with Washington. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday also said Moscow will add eight US …
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16-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ABUJA/ KARACHI: Over 77,000 Shia Muslims out of 93,000 people have fled from different cities, towns and areas of Nigeria after several threats given by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State (IS), Boko Haram, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and many other …
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16-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies INDIANAPOLIS/ WASHINGTON: Over 41,000 people were killed by gunshot violence in 2020 while the “White Terrorism” has been rising very fast in America and thousands have also died in different domestic conflicts, snatching of valuables, car and bike jacking, anti-Islamic and anti-Shia riots and …
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16-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Aboriginal man David Dungay Jr died in a Sydney prison cell in 2015 after officers restrained him to stop him eating biscuits. During the struggle, he was pinned face-down by guards and jabbed with a sedative. Video later …
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16-04-2021 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: United States President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that imposes a slate of new sanctions against Russia, as well as expelling 10 diplomats from the US, in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference. …
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