04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States has said the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 will “never be forgotten”, and that the struggle for democracy was echoed today in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. China has not revealed how many people were killed …
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04-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog that his country would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, but could take independent action, reiterating a longstanding veiled threat to launch a preemptive war. The warning to visiting …
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04-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: US President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he was considering a trip to Saudi Arabia, which would be a stark reversal after he called for the kingdom to be made a pariah state. The New York Times and other US media, quoting anonymous sources, have reported that Biden …
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03-06-2022 NEW YORK/ ISTANBUL: Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations has renamed the Republic of Turkey to ‘Türkiye’ under its organisational structure. According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, wrote to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, requesting that ‘Türkiye’ be used instead of …
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03-06-2022 KHARTOUM: In the early morning of June 3, 2019, Amira Kabous called her son Mohamad Hisham after Sudanese security services had violently dispersed a sit-in protest in the capital, Khartoum. Unable to reach him, Kabous thought that Hisham was either helping his wounded friends or that he had lost …
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03-06-2022 LONDON: Outbreaks of endemic diseases such as monkeypox and Lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies director, Mike Ryan, warned on Wednesday. As climate change contributes to rapidly changing weather conditions like drought, animals and human are changing their behavior, including food-seeking …
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03-06-2022 LONDON: Tens of thousands of people cheered Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday as she appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the first day of celebrations marking the British monarch’s 70 years on the throne. The 96-year-old queen’s appearance at the Platinum Jubilee, a milestone never previously reached …
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02-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ OKLAHOMA: At least three people were killed by a gunman at a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, police said, as Americans still grappled with grief and anger over the shooting at a Texas school just over a week ago. The gunman, who was armed with a …
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02-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s financial crime-fighting agency wants to question the two most senior members of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, who lead the main opposition Congress party, as it investigates a complaint of money laundering, the party said on Wednesday. The summons by the enforcement directorate is linked to …
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02-06-2022 CARTIGLIANO: Businesses in the sleepy Italian town of Cartigliano are so worried about its declining birth rate and lack of workers that they have begun paying families’ nursery school fees and childcare costs to spur them to have more babies. Cartigliano, a town of 3,800 inhabitants and scores small …
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