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29-11-2022 GENEVA: Monkeypox will now be known as mpox, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, after complaints over racist and stigmatizing language linked to the virus’s name. The old term will be used alongside the new one for a year, before being phased out. Mpox was decided on after …

29-11-2022 DUBAI: Police have dismantled a huge drugs “super-cartel” that controlled a third of Europe’s cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in various countries, including six chief suspects in Dubai, according to Europol. The huge international operation seized 30 tonnes of the drug and led to arrests in Belgium, France, the …

29-11-2022 BEIJING/ SHANGHAI: Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into a third day and spread to several other cities. The latest demonstrations, unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power a decade ago began after 10 people …

29-11-2022 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has said it will not cooperate with a United Nations fact-finding mission on its response to ongoing anti-government demonstrations due to what it calls the investigation’s “political” nature. Tehran will have “no form of cooperation with this political committee which has been framed as a …

28-11-2022 UNITED NATIONS: There is “no credible pathway” to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key threshold of 1.5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment. Scientists believe that going beyond 1.5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over the world. The report says that since COP26 …

28-11-2022 MEKELLE/ ADDIS ABABA: Before the war came to Tigray, it used to be a ritual to greet the morning by looking up to the perennial clear blue sky over this northern province of Ethiopia. Dr. Kibrom Gebreselassie, the chief executive director of the Ayder Referral Hospital in the capital …

28-11-2022 TEHRAN: The US government has played a conspicuous role in every single seditious plot against the Iranian nation, a senior spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said. Addressing a meeting of Basij forces in Iran’s province of Markazi on Saturday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said …

28-11-2022 KAMPALA: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be …

28-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country intends to have the world’s most powerful nuclear force as he promoted dozens of military officers involved in the recent launch of a new ballistic missile, state media reported on Sunday. The announcement comes after Kim inspected a …

28-11-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The pro-Khalistan secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) launched Khalistan Referendum Campaign in Melbourne Australia with thousands participating in Nagar Kirtan calling upon Australian Sikhs to vote on January 29 with the aim of “Haryana Banay Ga Khalistan”. During the past decades, a large influx of …