25-03-2022 WASHINGTON: A team of scientists said Wednesday they had developed a male oral contraceptive that was 99% effective in mice and didn’t cause observable side effects, with the drug expected to enter human trials by the end of this year. The findings will be presented at the American Chemical …
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24-03-2022 BERLIN: A fully paralyzed man suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) can now communicate with his family after receiving microchip implants in his brain. It is the first time a completely locked-in person someone who is conscious and cognitively able but fully paralyzed was able to communicate in full …
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24-03-2022 MOSCOW: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said in an interview that Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened. Peskov’s comment came as CNN interviewer Christiane Amanpour pushed him on whether he was “convinced or confident” that President Vladimir Putin would not use the nuclear …
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24-03-2022 MAKKAH: Itikaf will resume at the two holy mosques, Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madina during this year’s Ramadan after a gap of two years, the Saudi Gazette reported Wednesday. Head of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, Dr Abdul …
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24-03-2022 LONDON: A woman’s hand in the United Kingdom ended up looking like a ‘shark’s head’ after her surgery battling sepsis, media reported. Sepsis is a grave condition where the body begins to harm its own tissues. 34-year-old Sadie Kemp shared the video of her hand on her TikTok profile. …
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23-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the group. The Taliban will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class …
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23-03-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Five more people have been arrested over a series of arson attacks that caused more than $10 million in damage to businesses across Melbourne. The arrests come after two men were arrested on March 7 and after police made repeated calls for the public to help …
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23-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BENGALURU/ NEW DELHI: The body of Indian student Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar was brought back to India this morning, three weeks after he was killed during shelling in Ukraine. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai paid tribute and placed a wreath on the body at Bengaluru airport, …
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23-03-2022 WUZHOU/ BEIJING: Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn across mountain slopes …
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23-03-2022 LONDON: A British woman, Kelly Healey, 33, became England’s youngest grandmother at the age of 30, when her 14-year-old daughter gave birth to a baby boy, Daily Mail reported. As per the publication, Healey’s daughter, Skye Salter became a mother in 2018. However, the matter came to light just …
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