05-02-2022 WASHINGTON: The US State Department is waiving sanctions on Iran’s civilian nuclear program in a technical step necessary to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior official said Friday. The resumption of the waiver, ended by the Donald Trump administration in 2020, “would be essential to ensuring Iran’s …
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05-02-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Human remains have been taken from a Melbourne cemetery in two disturbing incidents of grave desecration. Police are investigating after body parts, including a human head, were stolen by grave robbers at Footscray General Cemetery around January 28 and again on Tuesday. Detective Acting Inspector Ben …
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05-02-2022 DUBAI/ BAGHDAD: The drone attack by a little-known armed group in Iraq on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week has raised questions about Baghdad’s involvement in regional tensions between Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Saudi-led coalition. Alwiyat al-Waad al-Haq (AWH), or the True Promise Brigades, claimed …
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04-02-2022 BEIJING: The 24th edition of the Winter Olympics is officially under way after the Olympic cauldron was lit in a restrained opening ceremony in Beijing. Almost 3,000 athletes from 91 nations will compete across the Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been criticised for awarding the Games to …
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04-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The United States has responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, that the policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have brought Pakistan and China closer, The News reported citing international media. The US State …
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04-02-2022 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting on Friday to shore up his authority after a senior aide resigned over his false claim that the leader of the opposition Labour Party failed to prosecute a notorious child sex abuser. Johnson, who in 2019 won the biggest Conservative majority …
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04-02-2022 ATMEH/ DAMASCUS: “Nobody used to think about Daesh (ISIL) here,” he says, standing by the remains of a three-floored building that he and his father own in Atmeh, a town in Syria’s Idlib province just off the Turkish border. The structure was destroyed during an overnight United States Special …
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04-02-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s official COVID-19 death toll crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level some data analysts said was breached last year but was obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease. The country, which has the fourth-highest tally …
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04-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KARACHI: Hundreds of women especially Shia, moderate Sunni and anti-Taliban teenage girls and young females have either been kidnapped or murdered in Afghanistan by anti-Shia terrorists since August 2021 but neither the local Afghan media could publish or on-air a single report …
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04-02-2022 HOUSTON: A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central US as airlines cancelled thousands of flights, officials urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses. The blast of frigid weather, which arrived …
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