27-12-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban said Sunday that women seeking to travel long distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. The guidance, issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also called on all vehicle …
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27-12-2021 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM/ NABLUS: Hundreds of Palestinians were injured in the village of Burqa, near Nablus, as Israeli forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that 247 Palestinian protestors were injured by Israeli soldiers in the village of Burqa, northwest of …
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26-12-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban scrapped the country’s election commission, a spokesman for the government said on Saturday, The panel supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration. “There is no need for these commissions to exist and operate,” Taliban government spokesman Bilal Karimi said, referring to the …
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26-12-2021 BENI/ KINSHASA: A suicide bomber has attacked a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Beni, killing at least five people and himself. Officials blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) for Saturday’s attack. The militia is one of the deadliest armed groups in the region …
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26-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will start administering COVID-19 booster shots as a precautionary measure to healthcare and other front-line workers from January 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant rise across the country. In a TV address to the nation on …
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26-12-2021 PAROS/ ATHENS: Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days. Late Friday, the coastguard found 16 bodies, including those of three women and a baby, …
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26-12-2021 PARIS: COVID infections in France hit six figures Saturday, health officials recording 104,611 cases over the previous 24 hours, the third consecutive day the numbers have been record highs. The latest figures, from France´s public health agency, come ahead of a video-conference meeting Monday in which President Emmanuel Macron …
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25-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ NAIROBI: The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to show the first stars to light up the Universe. The observatory was lifted skyward by an Ariane rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Its flight to orbit lasted just under half an hour, …
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25-12-2021 WASHINGTON: A caller has pranked US President Joe Biden by dropping an anti-Biden taunt into their chat during a White House Christmas event. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were hosting the festive call for families when a father told the president: “Let’s go, Brandon.” Apparently unaware of the …
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25-12-2021 VATICAN CITY: People across the world are celebrating Christmas, one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar. However, for the second year in a row, there are smaller crowds at church services and other events because of the continuing coronavirus outbreak. On the occasion of Christmas, Pope Francis’ …
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