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07-02-2022 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, as they called for action following the shooting of black man who was shot and killed as police executed a “no-knock” warrant this past week. It came following the police shooting of Amir Locke, a …

07-02-2022 KHARTOUM: Clashes between military forces and Daesh (ISIL) at the UNAMID facilities in Sudan’s Darfur region have left an unknown number of people dead and injured, according to a military statement. Witnesses told Reuters News Agency they heard heavy gunfire on Saturday around the perimeter of the headquarters of …

06-02-2022 RABAT: A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him. A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well. The bid to free the boy, named as Rayan, had gripped the country, with …

06-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s most venerated singers who sang tens of thousands of songs in her lifetime, has died at the age of 92. She had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai city in January after testing positive for COVID-19. Federal minister …

06-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday said journalists and media workers in Afghanistan are facing increasing ‘harassment’ from the intelligence department and are under pressure from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. RSF said the threats, interrogations and …

06-02-2022 TORONTO/OTTAWA: Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, braced for disruptions on Saturday as protests against vaccine mandates spread from the capital of Ottawa, raising fears of clashes with counter protesters. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” began as a movement against a vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers, but has turned …

06-02-2022 PARIS: A sculpture of an Algerian military hero was vandalised on Saturday in central France, hours before it was inaugurated. The artwork, which was commissioned to mark 60 years of Algerian independence from France, depicts Emir Abdelkader, once dubbed “France’s worst enemy”. Abdelkader led the struggle against the French …

06-02-2022 SANA’A/ TEHRAN: The leader of the Yemeni popular resistance movement of Houthi Ansarullah warned countries involved in the aggression on Yemen against allying themselves with the US, Britain, and Israel, emphasizing that Yemenis would continue to stand firm against the Saudi-led attack. “Anyone who thinks they will be victorious …

06-02-2022 WASHINGTON/ KABUL: The US military said on Friday that a single Islamic State bomber killed 13 US troops and at least 170 Afghans at Kabul airport last August, not the complex attack originally suspected, and that it could not have been prevented with the resources on hand. Briefing reporters …

05-02-2022 WASHINGTON: Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year. In his strongest rebuttal yet, he said Trump was wrong to suggest he had had the right to overturn the election. Separately the Republican Party censured …