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30-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies ABU DHABI: Israel’s top diplomat Yair Lapid opened the Jewish state’s first embassy in the Gulf during a trip to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after ties were normalized ties last year. “The opening of the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi with the Emirati …

30-06-2021 VANCOUVER: At least 69 people in the Vancouver area have died in a record-smashing heat wave engulfing western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest, police said Tuesday. Most of the dead in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey over the past 24 hours were elderly or people with …

30-06-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters have launched an attack on Ghazni, clashing with Afghan forces and using explosives in an attempt to seize the central Afghan city, local officials have said. Tuesday’s assault on Ghazni, on the highway linking the capital Kabul with the southern province of Kandahar, …

29-06-2021 BRITISH COLUMBIA: British Columbia closed schools, issued flood warnings from glacier melts, and urged people to stay indoors because of extreme heat that pushed temperatures in the western Canadian province to a national record. Social media posts with tips on staying cool without air conditioners went viral on Monday …

29-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A Hindu group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter’s country head for showing regions outside a map of India on its website, kickstarting an investigation in a fresh headache for the United States-based social media firm. A map on Twitter’s careers page showed …

29-06-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Violence erupted after the demolition of a Palestinian business by Israeli forces began in the al-Bustan area of the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Tuesday. Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighborhood and destroyed a butcher’s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used tear …

28-06-2021 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country’s tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Kim. The rare public comment on Kim’s health come after foreign analysts noted …

28-06-2021 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi has condemned th overnight air attack on Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Syria which a monitor said killed at least seven fighters. In a statement on Sunday, the US military said it targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria …

28-06-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON: Britain’s financial regulator has said Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto-currency exchanges, cannot conduct any regulated activity and issued a warning to consumers about the platform, which is coming under growing scrutiny globally. In a notice dated June 25, the Financial Conduct Authority …

28-06-2021 PARIS: France’s far-right National Rally (RN) have failed to win their first ever region, as results from the second round of regional elections come in. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur was a target for Marine Le Pen’s party. But exit polls suggest their hotly-tipped candidate lost to the centre-right Republicans. The election …