20-02-2023 TEHRAN/ LONDON: Independent TV network Iran International is suspending its operations in the UK because of threats against its London-based journalists. The Persian-language TV channel said that the decision was due to a “significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran”. “Threats had grown to the point that it was …
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20-02-2023 ISTANBUL: Footballer Christian Atsu has been found dead under the rubble of his home almost two weeks after the Turkey earthquake, his agent has confirmed. The Ghana international, 31, had spells with Premier League sides Everton, Chelsea and Newcastle. Atsu had been missing since the 6 February quake that …
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20-02-2023 MUNICH/ TEHRAN: A group of exiled Iranians will increase support for opposition movements in the country so they can continue to pressure the authorities there, amid a crackdown on protests, the last heir to the Iranian monarchy said yesterday. Iran has been rocked by unrest since the death in …
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20-02-2023 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has said he does not want to see Russia crushed by a defeat in Ukraine. Speaking to French media, Macron urged Western nations to increase military support for Kyiv and said he was prepared for a protracted war. “I want Russia to be defeated …
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20-02-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korea has said it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as a warning to the United States and South Korea, claiming the drill successfully demonstrated its capacity to launch a “fatal nuclear counterattack”. The North Korean statement on Sunday came a day after it launched the Hwasong-15 …
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20-02-2023 WASHINGTON: Former United States President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family”, according to a statement by the Carter Center. At 98 years old, Carter is the longest-lived US president. He began hospice care at home instead of …
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19-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ LONDON: Indian tax authorities say they have uncovered irregularities in the BBC’s accounting books after searches at the broadcaster’s offices in the country. The statement, which does not directly name the BBC, comes after officials carried out a three-day operation at premises in Delhi and …
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19-02-2023 DAMASCUS/ JERUSALEM: At least five people have been martyred, 15 wounded and several residential buildings damaged in Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital Damascus, Syrian state media reported. The raids early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus’s Kafr Sousa neighborhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex …
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19-02-2023 AMSTERDAM: The Dutch government has said that “a number” of Russian diplomats will have to leave the Netherlands, accusing Moscow of trying to smuggle spies into the country that is home to institutions including the International Criminal Court and the global chemical weapons watchdog. The announcement on Saturday is …
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19-02-2023 RAFHA: A desert bloom triggered by heavier than usual winter rains has carpeted the sands of northern Saudi Arabia with purple flowers, drawing sightseers from across the Arabian Peninsula. Muhammad al-Mutairi drove nearly six hours from his hometown in the centre of the kingdom to see the rare burst …
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