09-05-2021 BEIJING/ WELLINGTON/ WASHINGTON: Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of China’s new space station last month. At 18 tones it is one …
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09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who won re-election Saturday, has risen from humble roots to spar with prime ministers and presidents since taking charge of the British capital five years ago. The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party, …
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08-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 Shia Muslims and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack Afghan President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban. A senior …
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08-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies JEDDAH/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia and longstanding ally Pakistan signed several agreements on Saturday and vowed to revive ties strained by months of disagreement over policy on the Kashmir dispute. On his seventh visit to the wealthy kingdom since his 2018 …
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08-05-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: An Australian basketball player has threatened to boycott the upcoming Olympics due to an alleged lack of diversity in a promotional photo shoot. An image released this week showed Australian Olympians and Paralympians in sponsored outfits, but did not feature any athletes of color. WNBA …
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08-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: In a first, India on Saturday recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a day, according to the government data. The 4,187 new deaths took India’s overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its …
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08-05-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: A Federal Grand Jury indicted four former Minneapolis police officers on charges they violated George Floyd’s civil rights, according to a three-count indictment unsealed on Friday. Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, when former officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the Black man’s back for more …
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08-05-2021 GENEVA/ BEIJING: The World Health Organization has approved the emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm. Friday’s decision by a WHO technical advisory group, a first for a Chinese vaccine, opens the possibility that Sinopharm’s offering could be included in the United Nations-backed COVAX program in …
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08-05-2021 JERUSALEM: More than 170 Palestinian worshippers have been injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and elsewhere in occupied East Jerusalem, as weeks-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians over Jerusalem soared again. Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of Palestinian worshippers packed into the …
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07-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has started a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia in an effort to reset relations after tensions between the longtime allies in recent years. Khan’s arrival in Riyadh on Friday after an invitation from Saudi Crown …
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