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Major evacuations in Frankfurt over World War II bomb

07 July, 2019 FRANKFURT: An area around Frankfurt Zoo and the European Central Bank has been evacuated so a 500-kilogram American bomb can be defused. Some 16,500 people were told to leave, including residents of a nursing home. A huge World War II bomb discovered in Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt during construction …

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Iran to boost uranium enrichment: Rouhani

07 July, 2019 TEHRAN: Iran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions. Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran still wanted to salvage the deal but blamed European countries for failing to live …

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Suicide car bomb kills 13, wounds 72 in Afghanistan

07 July, 2019 KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan officials say a car bomb in central Afghanistan has killed thirteen people and wounded 72 others, many of them students attending a nearby school, PTV reported. Hasan Raza Yousafi, a provincial council member, says the target of Sunday’s suicide attack was an intelligence unit …

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‘China separating Muslim children from parents’

06 July, 2019 By SJA JAfri + BBC BEIJING/ UYGHUR: Thousands of Muslim children in China’s western Xinjiang region are being separated from their parents in what a new study calls a “systematic campaign of social re-engineering and cultural genocide”. The research sheds light on what happens to the children of “double-detained” parents …

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Why the ‘Deal of the Century’ fails?

06 July, 2019 (Courtesy Tehran Times) TEHRAN: These days, apart from the tensions between Iran and United States, another event in south west Asia has attracted the attention of the countries’ officials, nations, and the media from all over the world. This new issue is “the Deal of the Century”; …

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