29-01-2022 BEIJING: A new type of coronavirus, NeoCov, has been detected in bats of South Africa. Scientists of Wuhan and Chinese researchers carried out research and studied that the virus may pose a threat to humans in the future if it mutates further, meida reported. NeoCov is closely related to …
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29-01-2022 LONDON: London police on Friday denied delaying a long-awaited government report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street that have put Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s future in jeopardy. Weeks of so-called “partygate” revelations forced Johnson to order a senior civil servant to look into the claims, and the report was …
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29-01-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH/ TEHRAN: Yemeni army forces and their allies fired a ballistic missile at the gathering positions of Saudi-sponsored militiamen in the country’s oil-rich central province of Ma’rib, killing dozens of militants. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, stated late on Wednesday that Yemeni …
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29-01-2022 TEGUCIGALPA: Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras, vowing to reform the crime-and-poverty-stricken nation into a “socialist and democratic state.” Castro, 62, took the oath at a massive ceremony attended by international dignitaries after an embarrassing week of fighting within her party …
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29-01-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s capital Delhi lifted a weekend curfew and allowed restaurants and marketplaces to reopen on Friday, following a sharp drop in new infections of COVID-19. Under new orders, however, the city will remain under night time curfew, and schools will be closed, Delhi’s lieutenant governor …
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29-01-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans to name a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February and reiterated his intention to nominate a Black woman for the first time to serve on the highest US judicial body, a milestone he …
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28-01-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MANITOBA/ NEW DELHI: Officials in Canada say they have confirmed the identities of four Indian nationals whose frozen bodies were found in Manitoba near the Canada-United States border last week. The High Commission of India in Ottawa on Thursday released a statement saying the four …
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28-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KECH/ QUETTA/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s military has confirmed that at least 10 soldiers were martyred in an attack on a security checkpost in the southwest province of Balochistan earlier this week, according to a statement. The attack took place on Tuesday night in the …
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28-01-2022 BAGHDAD: At least three rockets have landed in the Baghdad International Airport compound and near an adjacent US airbase, damaging one disused civilian aeroplane, Iraqi police sources said. The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport’s runways or parking areas, a source at the interior ministry said, noting that a “civilian …
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28-01-2022 Bureau Report BEIJING/ NEW DELHI: China has returned an Indian citizen who “illegally” entered into Chinese territory at the disputed border between the two Asian giants, a military official said on Thursday. Thursday’s announcement from China came after India’s Defence Ministry said last week it had contacted China to …
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