04-12-2022 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations still cannot get unfettered access to bring humanitarian aid into Ethiopia’s Tigray, one month after the ceasefire, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The UN’s health agency said on Friday that just a trickle of aid had managed to get into the northern …
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03-12-2022 KYIV: As many as 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in battle since Russia invaded the country nine months ago, according to an official in Kyiv. The comments from Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appeared to be the first update on the number of fighters …
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03-12-2022 HAGUE: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has declined to issue a decision in an international dispute over the Silala River, one of several water-related issues that have spurred tensions between Chile and Bolivia. Chile is in the middle of an historic, massive 13-year drought, and Bolivia is likewise …
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03-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The United States announced it was designating South Asian Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban leaders as terrorists, vowing action as alarms grow over Afghanistan. The targeted militants included four leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional …
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03-12-2022 Bureau Report + BBC MELBOURNE: The case against a former political adviser accused of raping a colleague inside Australia’s Parliament House has been dropped. Bruce Lehrmann, 27, denies sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins on a minister’s sofa after a night out in 2019. He maintains no sex took place. Lehrmann’s …
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03-12-2022 BEIJING: China has accused a committee of British legislators visiting Taiwan of “gross interference” in its internal affairs and warned that it could be “met with forceful responses”. The ongoing visit to Taiwan by members of the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is a “flagrant violation” of the “one-China …
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03-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The United States Senate has passed a bill forcing railroad unions to accept a deal that would increase wages to avoid a nationwide strike that was anticipated to have devastating economic effects. The legislation was approved on Thursday by a vote of 80 to 15 and it now …
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02-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Head of Mission to Kabul Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani Friday escaped an assassination bid, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) confirmed. In a statement sharing details of the attack, the Foreign Office stated that the embassy’s compound in Kabul came …
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02-12-2022 GENEVA: The United Nations and partners on Thursday launched an appeal for a record $51.5 billion in aid money for 2023, with tens of millions of additional people expected to need humanitarian assistance. The UN Global Humanitarian Overview estimates that an extra 65 million people will need help next …
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02-12-2022 IDAHO, MOSCOW: Four University of Idaho students who were murdered in a crime that shocked America have been remembered as “fun loving” and “brimming with promise”. The group are thought to have been asleep in their beds at home when they were stabbed to death on 13 November. Families …
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