29-01-2023 DAMASCUS/ TAMPA, FLORIDA: Syria has rejected a report by the global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Damascus for a 2018 poison gas attack which killed 43 people, calling it “false”. Syria’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) …
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29-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets have crashed after an apparent midair collision while on exercises about 300km (185 miles) south of the capital, New Delhi. Both aircraft had taken off on Saturday morning from the Gwalior airbase, about 50km (30 miles) east of where …
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29-01-2023 WASHINGTON: The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest Friday as authorities prepared to release a video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police officers who, the victim’s mother said, “beat him to a pulp.” The police officers, who were also Black, were …
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29-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian court has ruled that cow dung dwellings are immune to nuclear radiation, such as atomic bomb fallout. Cows are deemed sacred in India, and authorities have pushed against livestock slaughter in recent years in collaboration with Hindu nationalist parties. The Gujarat High Court, …
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29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: More than 160 people have died from the cold in Afghanistan this month in the worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday, as residents described being unable to afford fuel to heat homes in temperatures well below freezing. “162 …
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29-01-2023 BAKU: A gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran on Friday, in an attack Baku branded an “act of terrorism” that it said was the result of Tehran failing to heed its calls for improved security. Police in Tehran said …
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29-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT: The World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday that hunger rates in Syria have soared to record highs after more than a decade of devastating conflict. A brutal war that triggered years of economic crisis and damaged vital infrastructure has put 2.9 million at risk …
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29-01-2023 JOHANNESBURG: A councilor from a small Muslim party was elected mayor of Johannesburg on Friday after months of political manoeuvring and legal battles for control of South Africa’s business capital. Thapelo Amad, of the Al Jama-ah party, was voted in by the city council to replace Mayor Mpho Phalatse, …
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28-01-2023 ABUJA: Nigeria’s central bank has launched a domestic card scheme to rival foreign cards like Master-card and Visa, hoping to enhance its drive to make Africa’s biggest economy a cashless society and save the country foreign transaction fees. The announcement on Thursday by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) …
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28-01-2023 QAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital, Cairo, containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-metre (49-foot) shaft in a recently uncovered group of tombs …
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