04-01-2022 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum. Thousands marched against a recent deal he had done to share power with the army, who staged a coup in October. Chanting “power to the people”, protesters called for a return …
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04-01-2022 PARIS: Europe has recorded over 100 million coronavirus cases, more than a third of all infections worldwide, since the start of the pandemic, an AFP tally Saturday showed. The continent has once again become the pandemic’s epicentre in recent months, and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on …
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03-01-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: Police in two Indian states have registered cases after an app shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on “sale”. The accused include developers of the app and Twitter handles that shared the images and content. The open source …
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03-01-2022 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Yemen’s Houthi fighters say they have seized a UAE-flagged vessel in the Red Sea, claiming it carried “military supplies” after the Saudi-led coalition accused the armed group of “piracy”. The vessel “entered Yemeni waters without authorization” off the coast of Hodeidah and was carrying out “hostile acts”, …
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03-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Over 28,000 children have been killed in conflicts since 2005 in Afghanistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday in a press release. According to UNICEF, Afghanistan has the highest number of verified child casualties since 2005: “Afghanistan, for …
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03-01-2022 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel’s military said it launched air attacks on Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets fired from Gaza landed in the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli military said the attacks late on Saturday hit a rocket manufacturing facility and a military post for Hamas. “As …
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03-01-2022 CAPE TOWN: A major fire has erupted at the South African parliament building in Cape Town, with flames bursting from the roof of a building and a plume of smoke that could be seen from miles away. The fire has “burned down” the entire National Assembly where parliamentarians sit, …
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02-01-2022 VIENNA: A law allowing assisted suicide has taken effect in Austria. From Saturday, adults who are terminally ill or have a permanent, debilitating condition, can opt to make provisions for an assisted death. Parliament approved the new law in December, following a constitutional court ruling on the issue. …
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02-01-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A large grassfire is still burning at a former ammunitions factory site in Melbourne’s north west, however authorities says the threat posed by the blaze has been significantly reduced. Dozens of firefighters from Fire Rescue Victoria and Country Fire Authority have spent the afternoon battling the …
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02-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Mumbai Zone on Saturday detected massive evasion of around 700 million during the crackdown on cryptocurrency service provider WazirX. According to NTDV, the director-general GST Intelligence (DGGI) searched around half a dozen offices of cryptocurrency service providers following the …
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