23-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iranian officials continued to lash out against the European Union on Friday following a resolution that slaps sanctions on Iran, and as the EU considers listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Ghalibaf issued an unveiled threat on …
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23-01-2023 NASHVILLE: Tennessee has fired two top officials after a report revealed numerous errors in the state’s lethal injection system. The Department of Corrections has fired head lawyer, Debra Inglis, and Inspector General Kelly Young. The independent report found drugs used in Tennessee’s lethal injections were not properly tested for …
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23-01-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ KYIV: Two Indians have become the first to sell a hybrid beer in Poland that combines Indian rice flakes with European hops. The BBC’s Imran Qureshi finds out how the Ukraine war shaped their journey. A year ago, Chandra Mohan, an Indian living …
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23-01-2023 NEW YORK: The former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin has got married for the fourth time on his 93rd birthday. Aldrin was one of the pilots on the legendary Apollo 11 spaceflight in 1969, becoming one of the first two people to walk on the moon after the mission’s commander, …
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23-01-2023 MOSCOW: When Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin, not his real name, a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest. The IT specialist was against the war from the start, …
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23-01-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Top seed Iga Swiatek is out of the Australian Open after losing to Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the fourth round. Rybakina, seeded 22nd, had struggled to replicate the displays which saw her win at the All England Club in July but against Swiatek the Kazakh …
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23-01-2023 ISTANBUL/ STOCKHOLM: Turkey denounced Sweden after protests in front of its embassy in Stockholm including the burning of a Quran by far-right supporters and a separate demonstration by Kurdish activists. Ankara said on Saturday it was cancelling a visit by Sweden’s defence minister aimed at overcoming Turkey’s objections to …
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22-01-2023 LOS ANGELES: Police in California are responding to a shooting that has left several people injured, according to US media reports. The incident happened in Monterey Park, located about eight miles (13km) east of Los Angeles, after 22:00 local time on Saturday (06:00 GMT on Sunday). Thousands of people …
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22-01-2023 WASHINGTON: Officials in the United States have discovered six more classified documents during a new search of President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a lawyer. Some of the classified documents and “surrounding materials” dated from Biden’s tenure in the US Senate, where he represented Delaware from …
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22-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s new government to overhaul the country’s judicial system and weaken the Supreme Court. Israeli media, citing police, said more than 100,000 people joined Saturday’s protests. The rally followed another demonstration …
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