21-01-2022 BAGHDAD: Eleven soldiers were killed in an overnight attack by the Daesh against a base in eastern Iraq, authorities said Friday, in the group’s deadliest operation in the country this year. The extremist group took over large swathes of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, declaring itself a new …
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21-01-2022 TEHRAN/ MOSCOW: Prior to his departure for Moscow this week, Ebrahim Raisi expressed hope that the visit, the first by an Iranian president in almost five years, would lead to a “turning point” in his country’s relations with Russia. In the Russian capital, both Raisi and his Russian counterpart, …
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21-01-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Dozens of people have been killed in an air raid on a prison in northern Yemen, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has said, after a night of deadly bombing underlined a dramatic escalation in violence in the country’s long-running conflict. A Saudi-led …
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21-01-2022 SHEIKH JARRAH/ JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have destroyed the home of a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, days after the family tried to stave off the demolition by threatening to blow up the house. Large numbers of Israeli police and Special Forces raided the Salhiyeh …
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21-01-2022 GENEVA: Generic drug manufacturers will make a more affordable version of Merck’s anti-COVID pill for 105 of the world’s poorer nations, in deals announced Thursday by a UN-backed organization. The global Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) signed agreements with 27 manufacturers to produce the oral antiviral medicine molnupiravir, for supply …
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20-01-2022 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership on Wednesday amid a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street. Propelled into the top job to “get Brexit done”, Johnson in 2019 won his party’s …
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20-01-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI/ SANA’A: Israel has offered security and intelligence support to the United Arab Emirates against further drone attacks after a deadly strike by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group, according to a letter released by Israel’s leader. Three people were killed and six wounded on Monday when three tanker trucks …
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19-01-2022 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: An application has been lodged with the British police demanding the arrest of India’s army chief and a senior Indian government official for their alleged complicity in war crimes in disputed Kashmir, the TRT World reported. On Tuesday, law firm Stoke White said …
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19-01-2022 TEHRAN/ MOSCOW: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said his visit to Moscow could mark a “turning point” in bilateral relations between the two countries ahead of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Before departing for the Russian capital on Wednesday for a two-day trip, the Iranian president described …
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19-01-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: In the early hours of each morning, Muhajira rushes in freezing temperatures to a modest bakery in the Afghan capital to wait for warm naan to be distributed. On some days, it is all her family, and the others who have joined the queue will …
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