18-04-2021 TEHRAN/ VIENNA/ WASHINGTON: Another round of talks in Vienna to restore Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has concluded on a hopeful note as different sides said progress is being made. The Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) convened on Saturday in the Austrian …
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18-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON: The Duke of Edinburgh has been laid to rest in an intimate funeral at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The Dean of Windsor paid tribute to Prince Philip’s “kindness, humour and humanity” during the ceremony. The congregation wore masks and was socially distanced …
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18-04-2021 PARIS/ KIGALI: A Rwandan priest was arrested in France this week on charges of providing, among other things, food to militiamen who massacred members of the Tutsi minority in his church during the 1994 genocide in the African country, authorities said Friday. Marcel Hitayezu, who was born in 1956, …
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17-04-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned a request by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to include its demands in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, accusing them of trying to derail the continuing talks in Vienna. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denounced the “irresponsible and immature” statement earlier …
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17-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with daily cases hitting another record increase of 234,692 nationwide and families clamoring for drugs and hospital beds. The health ministry said the latest number is the eighth …
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17-04-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies SANA’A/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Yemen’s missile force and air force have carried out a joint operation using eleven missiles and drones attacking a facility belonging to Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil giant and other sensitive targets in the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region, a spokesman said. “Aramco and …
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17-04-2021 SANA’A: Some 96 combatants lost their lives as a result of heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib over the last two days, loyalist commanders said Friday. The fight broke out after Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government´s last northern toehold. “Clashes between the two sides …
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17-04-2021 TUNIS: At least 41 people have died after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement on Friday they are …
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17-04-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia has responded in kind to a barrage of new sanctions by the United States, saying it would expel 10 US diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in a tense showdown with Washington. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday also said Moscow will add eight US …
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16-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ABUJA/ KARACHI: Over 77,000 Shia Muslims out of 93,000 people have fled from different cities, towns and areas of Nigeria after several threats given by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State (IS), Boko Haram, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and many other …
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