07-11-2020 WASHINGTON: Joe Biden is now projected to have 284 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential election. The president-elect was projected to have surpassed the 270 electoral vote-thresholds after the AP called Pennsylvania in …
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07-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions, and criminalizing so-called “honor killings”. The government said the legal reforms were part of efforts to improve legislation …
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07-11-2020 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States of America (USA) said that it had removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and …
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07-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a bomb explosion in Kabul on Saturday in the latest violence to rock the city. Yama Siawash died when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded near his residence …
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07-11-2020 WILMINGTON/ WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden said he was going to win the U.S. presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes. “The numbers tell us … it’s a clear …
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07-11-2020 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A Melbourne man has become the first person to be charged with preparing for Foreign Interference Laws (FIL) passed by the Federal Parliament in 2018. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) charged 65-year-old Di Sanh Duong after executing a number of search warrants in the greater Melbourne area …
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06-11-2020 Bureau Report WELLINGTON/ CANBERRA: Jacinda Ardern has been formally appointed as the Prime Minister of New Zealand on Friday, returning to the office for a second term after securing a landslide victory in the country’s general election last month. Ardern and her ministers were sworn in by Governor-General Dame …
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06-11-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON: With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process from the White House on Thursday, falsely claiming the election was being “stolen” from …
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05-11-2020 WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden took a huge step Wednesday to capturing the White House, with wins in Michigan and Wisconsin bringing him close to a majority, but President Donald Trump responded with fury as his campaign sued to suspend vote counting. In a brief address on national television, flanked …
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03-11-2020 VIENNA: Police in Vienna are hunting at least one gunman after a string of shootings described by the Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, as a “repulsive terror attack” left at least three people dead. Two civilians were killed by gunmen, while one attacker was killed by police in the centre …
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