World
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Moderate Earthquake felt in Indonesia
Jakarta: A 5.9-magnitude quake rocked Indonesia’s eastern province of North Maluku (Maluku Utara) on Sunday. The quake hit at 9:47 Jakarta time (0247 GMT), with the epicentre at 139 km northwest of Halmahera…
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Ukraine calls for sanctions on Russian nuclear industry
Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West to impose sanctions against Russia’s nuclear industry in the wake of the fighting over the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Russia is using the…
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Iranian FM warns US against using ‘language of threat’
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Washington against using “language of threat” against the Islamic republic. “History ought to have taught the US that language of threat against Iran and Iranians…
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Sri Lanka allows controversial Chinese ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ to visit port
Colombo: Amidst controversy and a diplomatic tussle between India and China, Sri Lanka on Saturday announced that it has allowed controversial Chinese vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ to dock at the island’s southern-most…
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Xi Jinping eyes first in-person summit with Biden in November
New Delhi: Chinese officials are planning President Xi Jinping’s visit to Southeast Asia for his first one-on-one summit with his US counterpart Joe Biden in November. Reports of tension between the two…
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Salman Rushdie: The free speech champion whose ‘verses’ put his life at risk
New York: A Booker Prize that catapulted him to the pantheon of global literary stalwarts to a fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader that forced him into hiding and years of death threats,…
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Fear of social stigma preventing Asians from monkeypox testing
Hong Kong/New Delhi: Monkeypox, which has afflicted more than 30,000 people to date, is not a ‘gay’ disease and in Asia where gay sex is outlawed in several countries, the fear of stigmatization…
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Sri Lanka allows controversial Chinese ship to visit port
Colombo: Amidst controversy and a diplomatic tussle between India and China, Sri Lanka on Saturday announced that it has allowed controversial Chinese vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ to dock at the island’s southern-most…
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Afghanistan: Civilians wounded in an explosion in Kabul
Islamabad: At least two civilians were wounded in an explosion in the western part of Kabul, the police said on Saturday. Home-made devices were placed close to the office of the national…
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Pak to attend counter-terror drills in India for 1st time
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed that it will attend the international counter-terrorism exercises in India later this year despite simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The counter-terrorism exercises are scheduled to be…