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14-09-2023 TEHRAN: Women in Iran face up to 10 years in prison if they continue to defy the country’s mandatory hijab law, under harsher laws awaiting approval by authorities. Even businesses that serve women without a hijab face being shut down. The stricter dress code, which amounts to “gender apartheid”, …

14-09-2023 MOSCOW: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Russia’s Far East at a modern space launch facility for talks that the US suspects will involve defence cooperation. Meanwhile, as North Korea’s leader was busy meeting his friend, his military back home fired …

14-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The southern Indian state of Kerala has issued an alert after it confirmed that two people have died from the rare Nipah virus. One of the deaths occurred earlier this month while the other took place on 30 August, both in the state’s …

14-09-2023 TRIPOLI: International aid is slowly starting to reach the devastated port city of Derna as an inquest starts into how as many as 20,000 people might have perished when Storm Daniel hit the northern coast of Libya on Saturday night. Ten thousand people had been declared missing by official …

14-09-2023 BEIJING: During the flooding caused by Typhoon Haikui in southern China, dozens of crocodiles escaped from a breeding farm, raising concerns and requiring local authorities to take action. Approximately 75 crocodiles fled when a lake in Maoming, Guangdong province, overflowed due to the typhoon’s heavy rains. While some were …

14-09-2023 PARIS: The French government has initiated a comprehensive nationwide campaign aimed at raising awareness about sexual violence against children, with messages and videos distributed across social media platforms, and displayed on billboards, in various media outlets, and in movie theatres. This marks the first time that the subject of …

13-09-2023 CAIRO: The Egyptian government has banned female students from wearing the niqab, a face-covering veil, at schools, according to state-owned media. Education Minister Reda Hegazy’s statement, released on Monday and quoted by the government-owned Ahram newspaper, said students have an “optional” right to choose if they will cover their …

13-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HARYANA: A cow vigilante on the run after he was accused of inciting deadly communal violence in India’s northern Haryana state has been arrested. Mohit Yadav, better known by his alias Monu Manesar, was arrested for allegedly uploading “objectionable and inflammatory” posts under …

13-09-2023 RABAT: Rescue efforts continued Monday to search for survivors under the rubble as the latest death toll by the Moroccan authorities was estimated at over 2,862 with another 2,562 injured days after a devastating 6.8 earthquake struck Friday near the tourist hotspot. The powerful earthquake struck the Atlas Mountains. …

13-09-2023 WASHINGTON: The four-time criminally indicted former US President Donald Trump filed a motion through his lawyers Monday which maintained that District Judge Tanya Chutkan should be removed from his case as her past statements show clear bias against the 77-year-old Republican forerunner. Judge Chutkan is set to preside over …