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03-07-2021 TOKYO: Dozens Japanese have been hurt and killed and many others have been reported missing on Saturday, after heavy rains hit Japan’s central city of Atami in Shizuoka, triggering landslides, according to the public broadcaster NHK. Two people were “found in a state of cardio and respiratory arrest”, Shizuoka …

03-07-2021 More than 130 wildfires – fuelled by lightning strikes – are burning across western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave. Canada’s federal government said it would send military aircraft to help emergency workers battling to control the fires in British Columbia. Earlier this week, people had to flee the village …

03-07-2021 WINNIPEG: Protesters have vandalized statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in the Canadian city of Winnipeg as anger grows over the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools. A crowd chanted “no pride in genocide” before pulling down the …

03-07-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A warning has been issued for dog owners as a canine gastro outbreak spreads through Melbourne’s inner-east. A Richmond vet told 9News his clinic has been seeing up to 30 dogs a day with gastro, who were likely catching the bug at popular parks. Golden Retriever Lenny …

03-07-2021 PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic picked up speed again this week in all regions of the world except Latin America. Here is the global state of play according to media database. First rise in weeks The average number of new daily COVID-19 cases globally increased slightly by two per cent to …

02-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON The United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer received a boost in northern England on Friday, fighting off a challenge from the governing Conservatives to hang on to a parliamentary seat that if lost, would have heaped pressure on him to stand down. …

02-07-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel said its fighter jets targeted a weapons manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip overnight on Friday in the latest unrest since a ceasefire ended May’s attacks. Security sources with Hamas said the raids hit training sites and no casualties were reported. The Israeli army spokesperson …

02-07-2021 Bureau Report BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeated his country’s support for the Chinese government regarding its policies in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, while also praising the country’s one-party system as offering a better model for societies compared with electoral democracy. Khan was speaking to members …

02-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: After nearly 20 years, the United States military has left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the epicenter of its war to remove the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, two US officials have said. The airbase was handed over to …

02-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党成立100周年庆祝活动), or the Centennial of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党成立一百周年), culminated in a ceremonial event to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist …