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27-04-2021 GENEVA: The situation in India, where COVID-19 cases have surged, is “beyond heartbreaking”, and the World Health Organization (WHO) is sending extra staff and supplies there to help fight the pandemic, WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and …

27-04-2021 JERUSALEM: Palestinians gathered in celebration outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on Sunday night after barriers put up by Israeli police were removed, allowing them access to a square that became the focus of nightly Ramadan clashes between the two sides. Thousands filled the East Jerusalem plaza late on Sunday, some …

27-04-2021 LONDON: Black women face a significantly higher risk of having a miscarriage than white, research suggests. The Lancet analysis of data on 4.6 million pregnancies in seven countries suggests being black increases miscarriage risk by 43%. It calls for people in the UK to be given support after their …

27-04-2021 Bureau Report BENGALURU/ NEW DELHI: Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday (April 27) as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. Supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, …

26-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson have joined fellow Australian Andrew Tye in ending their Indian Premier League (IPL) season early to return home. India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, 34, also said he is taking a break from the IPL to support his family. The news comes …

26-04-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: : The commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Scott Miller, on Sunday said an orderly withdrawal of foreign forces and the handing over of military bases and equipment to the Afghan forces had begun. Miller said he was acting on orders …

26-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report PARIS/ JERUSALEM/ KARACHI: Thousands of Jewish across the world held massive protest in Paris and other French cities against Muslim community, the protesters were demanding the justice for an alleged Jewish woman who murdered by a Muslim man three years ago …

25-04-2021 BAGHDAD: At least 90 people were killed and more than 110 injured in a fire that broke out in the coronavirus intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital as public anger erupted demanding the prosecution of high-level Iraqi officials. The blaze on Sunday at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital in …

25-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: “ANZAC Day” is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who …

25-04-2021 BAGHDAD: 37 people were killed and 66 injured after a fire broke out on Sunday in a coronavirus intensive care unit in Baghdad, as Iraq faces a growing wave of COVID-19 cases. The fire at the Ibn Khatib hospital in the Iraqi capital was sparked by an accident that …