05-06-2022 DHAKA/ CHITTAGONG: A massive fire swept through an inland container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, killing and injuring hundreds, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident highlighting the country’s poor industrial safety track record. The fire broke out at a container facility on Saturday night at Sitakunda, 40 km (25 …
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04-06-2022 ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan is “jeopardizing Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy” as he rallies his supporters and workers to march to Islamabad and causes disruption, an article published in the Economist said Thursday. The publication said that “ritualized displays of street power, in which political parties …
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04-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI/ NEW DELHI: Dubai police say they have arrested and plan to extradite a British man wanted in Denmark over a $1.7bn tax scheme, one of Denmark’s largest-ever fraud cases. The arrest of hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah, 52, follows after Danish officials signed an …
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04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States has said the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 will “never be forgotten”, and that the struggle for democracy was echoed today in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. China has not revealed how many people were killed …
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04-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog that his country would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, but could take independent action, reiterating a longstanding veiled threat to launch a preemptive war. The warning to visiting …
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04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: US President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he was considering a trip to Saudi Arabia, which would be a stark reversal after he called for the kingdom to be made a pariah state. The New York Times and other US media, quoting anonymous sources, have reported that Biden …
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03-06-2022 NEW YORK/ ISTANBUL: Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations has renamed the Republic of Turkey to ‘Türkiye’ under its organisational structure. According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, wrote to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, requesting that ‘Türkiye’ be used instead of …
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03-06-2022 KHARTOUM: In the early morning of June 3, 2019, Amira Kabous called her son Mohamad Hisham after Sudanese security services had violently dispersed a sit-in protest in the capital, Khartoum. Unable to reach him, Kabous thought that Hisham was either helping his wounded friends or that he had lost …
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03-06-2022 LONDON: Outbreaks of endemic diseases such as monkeypox and Lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies director, Mike Ryan, warned on Wednesday. As climate change contributes to rapidly changing weather conditions like drought, animals and human are changing their behavior, including food-seeking …
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03-06-2022 LONDON: Tens of thousands of people cheered Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday as she appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the first day of celebrations marking the British monarch’s 70 years on the throne. The 96-year-old queen’s appearance at the Platinum Jubilee, a milestone never previously reached …
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