17-01-2023 LONDON: A man in his 60s has been arrested in connection with an investigation linked to the discovery of traces of uranium found in a cargo package at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The man was arrested on suspicion of a terror offence on …
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17-01-2023 NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES: The mayor of New York travelled to the Mexican border city of El Paso on Sunday and declared that “there is no room in New York” for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city. Eric Adams, a Democrat, was also critical of …
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17-01-2023 KATHMANDU: Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the …
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16-01-2023 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ When Edison Davis and Augustine Nemus set out to fish from India’s southern coast on 27 November, they promised their families they would be home for Christmas. Then, there was no word from them for weeks. The two men were part of a …
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16-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ BRISBANE: A British father used his drone to save beachgoers from a potential attack after spotting three sharks stalking the shores of a popular beach in Australia. David Alphonso, his wife Kirsty and their two-year-old sun Sonny were enjoying a family day out with …
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16-01-2023 LONDON: Police have released details of a car they want to trace after a seven-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries in a drive-by shooting at a London church. A 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving …
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16-01-2023 BEIJING: China has reported 60,000 COVID-related deaths in just over a month, the first major death toll released since the country stopped its zero-COVID policy. China has been widely accused of underreporting coronavirus deaths, despite evidence of hospitals and crematoriums being overrun. According to officials, China recorded 59,938 COVID-related …
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16-01-2023 AMMAN: Today the River Jordan lacks its biblical proportions, but some 200,000 visitors still flock to the traditional spot for Christian baptisms in Jordan in a typical year. I watch as groups from the US and Europe take turns to dip cautiously in the narrow breadth of muddy water …
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16-01-2023 TOKYO: Japan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant this year. After treatment the levels of most radioactive particles meet the national standard, the operator said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says the proposal …
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16-01-2023 TUNIS: Thousands of protesters angry at Tunisia’s economic crisis and the president’s increasingly authoritarian drift marched on Saturday through the capital, responding to a call from opposition parties to mark 12 years since Tunisian protesters unleashed Arab Spring uprisings around the region. The protest move comes after disastrous parliamentary …
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