12-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The Biden administration said on Monday healthcare providers must offer abortion services if the life of a mother is at risk and that procedures conducted under such circumstances would be protected under federal law regardless of various state bans. The guidance comes days after President Joe Biden signed …
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12-07-2022 LONDON: Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on Sept. 5, with the first votes to begin eliminating candidates in a crowded and increasingly unpredictable and divisive contest to replace Boris Johnson coming this week. So far 11 candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to succeed Johnson …
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12-07-2022 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The Biden administration is discussing the possible lifting of its ban on US sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite Riyadh’s devastating military aggression against neighboring Yemen. According to sources familiar with the matter, senior Saudi officials have pressed their US counterparts in recent months in …
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12-07-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to extend the authorization for cross-border deliveries of humanitarian aid into Syria. His appeal on Monday came as diplomats scrambled to find a solution that could overcome a Russian veto to a system that has kept …
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12-07-2022 WASHINGTON: With its excellent academic and music programs, Oberlin College in Ohio seemed like a perfect fit for Nina Huang, a California high school student who plays flute and piano and hopes to eventually study medicine or law but Huang, 16, said she crossed the college off her application …
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12-07-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree simplifying the process of acquiring Russian citizenship for all Ukrainian nationals. Russian shelling in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed three people on Monday and wounded dozens of others, according to regional governor Oleh Synehubov. Synehubov accuses Moscow’s forces of hitting …
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12-07-2022 JAKARTA/ BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Monday that countries should avoid being used as “chess pieces” by global powers in a region that he said was at risk of being reshaped by geopolitical factors. Addressing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat in a speech …
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12-07-2022 NEW YORK: About 500 couples celebrated their unions under a blue sky Sunday in a New York event aimed at healing the wounds of the COVID-19 pandemic. Garlands on their heads, the couples, many of them already married, walked in procession before a symbolic ceremony by an imam, a …
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11-07-2022 BANGKOK/ PATTAYA: Mada, 21, works at a weed dispensary in eastern Thailand, her boyfriend grows cannabis plants at home, and several of her friends sell bongs, pipes and buds in pop-up stalls and bars. Thailand has gone “baa her”, or crazy, for cannabis since the plant was effectively decriminalized …
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11-07-2022 WASHINGTON: Steve Bannon, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, has said he is willing to testify before a congressional panel investigating the January 6, 2021 siege at the Unites States Capitol. The message, which was conveyed to legislators on the panel in a letter, represents a stark …
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