06-02-2022 TORONTO/OTTAWA: Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, braced for disruptions on Saturday as protests against vaccine mandates spread from the capital of Ottawa, raising fears of clashes with counter protesters. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” began as a movement against a vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers, but has turned …
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06-02-2022 PARIS: A sculpture of an Algerian military hero was vandalised on Saturday in central France, hours before it was inaugurated. The artwork, which was commissioned to mark 60 years of Algerian independence from France, depicts Emir Abdelkader, once dubbed “France’s worst enemy”. Abdelkader led the struggle against the French …
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06-02-2022 SANA’A/ TEHRAN: The leader of the Yemeni popular resistance movement of Houthi Ansarullah warned countries involved in the aggression on Yemen against allying themselves with the US, Britain, and Israel, emphasizing that Yemenis would continue to stand firm against the Saudi-led attack. “Anyone who thinks they will be victorious …
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06-02-2022 WASHINGTON/ KABUL: The US military said on Friday that a single Islamic State bomber killed 13 US troops and at least 170 Afghans at Kabul airport last August, not the complex attack originally suspected, and that it could not have been prevented with the resources on hand. Briefing reporters …
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05-02-2022 WASHINGTON: Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year. In his strongest rebuttal yet, he said Trump was wrong to suggest he had had the right to overturn the election. Separately the Republican Party censured …
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05-02-2022 WASHINGTON: The US State Department is waiving sanctions on Iran’s civilian nuclear program in a technical step necessary to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior official said Friday. The resumption of the waiver, ended by the Donald Trump administration in 2020, “would be essential to ensuring Iran’s …
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05-02-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Human remains have been taken from a Melbourne cemetery in two disturbing incidents of grave desecration. Police are investigating after body parts, including a human head, were stolen by grave robbers at Footscray General Cemetery around January 28 and again on Tuesday. Detective Acting Inspector Ben …
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05-02-2022 DUBAI/ BAGHDAD: The drone attack by a little-known armed group in Iraq on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week has raised questions about Baghdad’s involvement in regional tensions between Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Saudi-led coalition. Alwiyat al-Waad al-Haq (AWH), or the True Promise Brigades, claimed …
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04-02-2022 BEIJING: The 24th edition of the Winter Olympics is officially under way after the Olympic cauldron was lit in a restrained opening ceremony in Beijing. Almost 3,000 athletes from 91 nations will compete across the Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been criticised for awarding the Games to …
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04-02-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The United States has responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, that the policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have brought Pakistan and China closer, The News reported citing international media. The US State …
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