25-06-2022 TEHRAN: Iran on Friday dismissed as “ridiculous” allegations by Israel’s foreign minister while on a visit to Ankara that the Islamic republic was planning anti-Israeli attacks in Turkey. “The baseless allegations… are ridiculous and part of a pre-designed plot to destroy relations between the two Muslim countries,” foreign ministry …
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24-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Indian investigators said they are probing what they believe could be the country’s biggest-ever lending fraud with 17 banks allegedly cheated out of around $4.4 billion. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said it carried out raids at 12 locations in Mumbai on Wednesday …
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24-06-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister of Afghanistan and Hizb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has urged the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to take sincere and effective steps to overcome a widening gap between the countries, saying their combined enemy would take benefit of the situation and the people …
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24-06-2022 WASHINGTON: US senators advanced a bipartisan bill late Thursday addressing the epidemic of gun violence convulsing the country, approving a narrow package of new firearms restrictions and billions of dollars in mental health and school security funding. The reforms which are almost certain to be rubber-stamped by the House …
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24-06-2022 PARIS: Some of the biggest viral hits on TikTok have been given the full orchestral treatment and will get a traditional release on CD and vinyl this summer, the platform announced Friday. The tie-up with Warner Classics is the first time TikTok has ventured into the traditional music market …
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23-06-2022 LADAKH/ GHUSHUL/ NEW DELHI: Nomads living for centuries in Ladakh say their lives and livelihoods are threatened by the continuing military tensions between India and China along their disputed border in the Himalayas. “Since three generations, my family has been herding cattle in Demchok, but the conflict deprives us …
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23-06-2022 LONDON: Voters began heading to the polls on Thursday in two closely watched UK by-elections that risk renewing pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson following months of scandals and setbacks. His ruling Conservatives are tipped to lose both contests, for the parliamentary seats of Tiverton and Honiton in …
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23-06-2022 RIYADH: When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic. Walking into a Riyadh salon, she ordered the hairdresser to chop her long, wavy locks all …
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23-06-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament has cancelled its remaining sittings for the week to save fuel, officials said Thursday, with a disastrous economic crisis rapidly depleting the island nation’s already scarce petrol supplies. A critical shortage of foreign currency has left importers unable to finance purchases of food, oil and …
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22-06-2022 LONDON: Rising food prices pushed the United Kingdom’s consumer price inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1 percent last month, the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries. Historical records from the Office for National Statistics show May’s inflation was the highest since March 1982 and worse …
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