28-01-2022 Bureau Report BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China has returned an Indian citizen who “illegally” entered into Chinese territory at the disputed border between the two Asian giants, a military official said on Thursday. Thursday’s announcement from China came after India’s Defence Ministry said last week it had contacted China to …
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28-01-2022 LONDON: England on Thursday lifted coronavirus restrictions imposed to tackle the Omicron variant, with masks no longer required in enclosed places and vaccine passports shelved. The number of positive Covid-19 cases has fallen sharply over the past two weeks, and although still at high levels, have plateaued in recent …
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28-01-2022 UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorise all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the Taliban-ruled state. He also pushed for a suspension of any rules or conditions constricting “lifesaving” …
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28-01-2022 WASHINGTON: A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say. The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate …
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27-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The looming economic and humanitarian crisis has affected the lifestyle of Afghan families as they are living in extreme poverty and are forced to make life-altering decisions to survive. Families are selling their children and their kidneys as more than half …
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27-01-2022 DAMASCUS: Kurdish-led forces in Syria say they have regained full control of a prison in northeast Syria, a week after a breakout by Daesh (ISIL/ ISIS) fighters left dozens dead. Farhad Shami, a spokesperson for the US-backed forces, said on Wednesday in a Twitter post that the Syrian Democratic …
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27-01-2022 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Moscow and Kyiv on Wednesday agreed at talks in Paris that all parties should observe a ceasefire in the east of Ukraine after more than eight hours of discussions which were hailed by a French diplomat as sending a “good signal”. A Russian troop build-up close to …
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27-01-2022 PYONGYANG: North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea said on Thursday, as nuclear-armed Pyongyang steps up weapons testing and bolsters its defences in the face of what it claims is a “hostile” United States. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff …
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27-01-2022 DAMASCUS: Kurdish-led forces in Syria say another 250 militants have surrendered as they work to clear the last part of a prison seized by the Daesh (Islamic State/ IS) group. At least 300 handed themselves in on Monday as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commandos moved into the facility in …
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27-01-2022 TEHRAN: Following a period of relative calm, Iran is once again experiencing an alarming rise in the number of COVID-19 infections, fuelled by the spread of the Omicron variant across the country. After 47 days, the country’s colour-coded COVID-19 map saw a spot of red again on Wednesday as …
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