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11-01-2023 CAIRO: Egypt continues to battle surging inflation amid a dramatic slide of its currency as many Egyptians struggle with price hikes, the country’s statistics bureau has said. The state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) released figures on Tuesday showing that the annual inflation was at 21.9 …

11-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ TEHRAN: The UN human rights chief says the flurry of death sentences handed down following the outbreak of civil unrest in Iran amount to “state sanctioned killing”, with executions being used to strike fear into the population and stamp out dissent. “The weaponization of criminal procedures to …

11-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: Indian authorities will demolish some buildings in a northern Himalayan town near the China border after evacuating families in the past few days, an official said on Tuesday, as hundreds of houses developed cracks in the area popular with pilgrims. Experts and …

11-01-2023 RIYADH: Islam’s annual Hajj pilgrimage will return to pre-pandemic levels this year after restrictions saw the annual religious commemoration curtailed over coronavirus concerns, Saudi authorities say. The Hajj, required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their life, represents one of the world’s largest gatherings of people. Before the pandemic, …

11-01-2023 WASHINGTON: The US justice department is reviewing documents marked classified found in President Joe Biden’s former office at a think tank, the White House says. About 10 of the files were discovered in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November by Biden’s legal team, …

10-01-2023 MEXICO CITY: Joe Biden has walked along the US-Mexico border in Texas to see up close one of his presidency’s biggest issues. He visited a migrant centre in El Paso and joined Border Patrol agents in touring a section of the border wall. The number of migrant crossings has …

10-01-2023 ABUJA: Eyewitnesses said yesterday that the kidnappers that attacked a sub-station of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC in Igueben, Edo State and abducted dozens of Shia passengers and staff on Saturday, struck because the train station was not protected by security men. This came as Edo State Government confirmed …

10-01-2023 SARAJEVO/ MOSCOW: Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb separatist leader, has awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin in absentia with the highest medal of honor for his “patriotic concern and love” for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Putin is responsible for developing and strengthening cooperation and political and friendly relations …

10-01-2023 CAIRO: A cargo vessel that ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal has been refloated, the Suez Canal Authority and a canal services firm said. Leth Agencies said the MV Glory ran aground on Monday near the city of Qantara, in the Suez Canal governorate of Ismailia. The Norwegian shipping …

10-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced to death three people accused of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said Monday. The country has been rocked by civil unrest since the September 16 death of Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, …