26-12-2022 BEIJING: China’s National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data on Sunday, amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing of tough restrictions. “Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference …
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26-12-2022 MOSCOW: Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia’s Feb 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most deadly conflict …
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25-12-2022 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, in his traditional Christmas message, has appealed for an end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine and other conflicts, calling for an end to the use of food as a weapon of war. Delivering the 10th Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the …
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25-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A cross-country march led by Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has reached the capital New Delhi after passing through eight states, hoping to regain some of the popularity it lost to the ruling Hindu nationalist party. Tens of thousands of people have joined Gandhi’s “Unite …
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25-12-2022 NEW YORK/ OTTAWA: A battering winter storm has left 1.7 million homes and businesses without power across the United States, as millions of people worry how the prospect of further outages will affect holiday and travel plans. More than 200 million people were under weather warnings on Saturday, as …
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25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university. Video on social media shows women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to …
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25-12-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: The United Nations has said Burkina Faso had no grounds for ordering senior UN official Barbara Manzi to leave the country and that the doctrine of “persona non grata” could not be applied to her. Burkina Faso’s military government on Friday put out a statement instructing Manzi, an …
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25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ KABUL/ DAMASCUS: Anti-Shia terror organizations, local and global networks, Asian, Arab, African, Israeli, Saudi, Pakistani and Australian chains directly and indirectly linked with different Taliban batches, al-Qaeda, Daesh, ISIS, Boko Haram, ISIL, JeI, LeJ, JeM, LeT and dozens others with or …
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24-12-2022 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives voted on Friday to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, scheduled to take effect at midnight in Washington DC (05:00 GMT on Saturday). The spending bill survived a Republican-led motion to adjourn, passing 225 to 201 …
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24-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will control 64.71 percent of New Delhi Television Ltd as the company’s founders have decided to sell most of their shares, four months after he launched a takeover of the news network. Adani already held 37 percent of NDTV after an …
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