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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01-11-2020 QUEBEC/ OTTAWA: Police in Quebec City arrested a man on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others in a stabbing rampage near the provincial legislature on Halloween. The man, in his mid-20s, was arrested in connection with the Halloween-night attacks and taken to a hospital “for evaluation”, …
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01-11-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE: Almost entire Australia is suffering from worst weather situations since the beginning of last month which caused dangerous climate, seasonal and viral diseases and infections but neither none of one concerned country’s “authorities” aware about the said condition nor want to know …
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01-11-2020 MANILA: A super typhoon has barreled into the eastern Philippines bringing “catastrophic” winds and intense rains as about a million people were evacuated in its projected path including in the capital, Manila, where the main international airport was ordered closed. “There are so many people who are really in …
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01-11-2020 BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces have reopened a key bridge in Baghdad and cleared out tents from a sit-in in the capital’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of an anti-establishment protest movement that erupted a year ago to demand basic services, employment opportunities and an end to corruption. Some 600 protesters …
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01-11-2020 LYON/ PARIS: A Greek Orthodox priest has been seriously wounded in a shooting in the French city of Lyon, officials say. The gunman fled the scene, sparking a manhunt. A suspect resembling witness descriptions was later taken into custody. The motive for the attack remains unclear. Authorities have opened …
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01-11-2020 PARIS/ DOHA: French President Emmanuel Macron says he understands the feelings of Muslims who are shocked by the displaying of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad but added that the “radical Islam” he is trying to fight is a threat to all people, especially Muslims. In an exclusive interview to Al …
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