01-12-2020 TEHRAN/ TEL AVIV: Israel assassinated a top Iranian nuclear scientist using remote-controlled technology, a senior Iranian security official alleged on Monday. “Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was done using electronic equipment and no [perpetrators] were at the scene,” Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, …
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01-12-2020 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia agreed to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, news agency Reuters and Israeli media outlets have reported. Kushner and Middle East envoys Avi Berkowitz and …
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30-11-2020 CAMBRIDGE: American biotechnology company Moderna Inc on Monday announced that its under-trial drug for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has shown 94.1% efficacy against the disease and a 100% efficacy in the severe cases. In a press release, the Massachusetts-based company said its coronavirus drug candidate, named mRNA-1273, was “generally well tolerated” …
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30-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DOHA: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for talks aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring Gulf countries, according to media reports in the United States. A senior official …
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30-11-2020 TEHRAN: Iran has laid to rest assassinated nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in the capital Tehran as authorities blamed Israel for the killing and repeated vows to avenge it. The funeral on Monday, scaled down due to coronavirus protocols and attended only by Fakhrizadeh’s family and some military commanders, was …
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30-11-2020 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ BEIJING: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was seeking an apology from China after a diplomat in Beijing tweeted an image purporting to show an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child. The tweet, posted by Chinese …
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29-11-2020 TEHRAN/ RIYADH: A ranking Iranian diplomat deplored as a treason against Muslims the move by certain members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to normalize relations with the Israeli regime. Iranian Foreign Ministry Director General for International Peace and Security Reza Najafi addressed the 47th session of the OIC’s Council …
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29-11-2020 HARRISBURG/ WASHINGTON: The US state of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican lawsuit sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state – which President-elect Joe …
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29-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ GHAZNI/ ISLAMABAD: A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 29 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting Afghan forces in recent months. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Ghazni, …
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29-11-2020 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says government forces are now “fully in control” of the regional capital of the northern Tigray region. The army earlier entered Mekelle as it stepped up its offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The leader of the TPLF told Reuters it …
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