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‘Provocation against 1.5 bn Muslims’: Saudi Grand Mufti on burning of Quran
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti and Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, denounced the absurd and disgraceful act of an extremist, by burning a copy…
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5.9-magnitude earthquake jolts Western Nepal, no loss of life reported
Kathmandu: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Western Nepal on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The earthquake, with epicentre in the Mela area of Bajura district in Sudurpaschim province, hit the region at 2:43 PM local…
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Canada welcomes record number of French-speaking immigrants
New Delhi: Welcoming the highest number of French-speaking immigrants since 2006, Canada said it has achieved its target of 4.4 per cent of Francophone newcomers outside Quebec in 2022. This represents a…
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Jacinda Ardern makes last speech as New Zealand PM
Wellington: A teary-eyed Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday made her last speech as the Prime Minister of New Zealand with successor Chris Hipkins beside her. The outgoing Labor leader on her last day…
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India invites Pak Chief Justice, Foreign Minister for SCO meetings: Report
Islamabad: India has invited Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Atta Bandial and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to attend meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that also includes Russia and China,…
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WhatsApp blocks screenshots of view once messages
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has rolled out a much-needed feature that automatically blocks taking screenshots of a view once messages. With this feature of WhatsApp, it is possible to send a ‘view…
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Cut 20% jobs at Alphabet, key investor tells Sundar Pichai
New Delhi: Hedge fund billionaire and investor Sir Christopher Hohn has told Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to reduce more jobs and bring the headcount to 150,000, that would require him…
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Not familiar with BBC documentary, but familiar with shared ‘democratic values’: US
Washington: The US is not familiar with the BBC documentary, but it is familiar with the shared “democratic values” that connects Washington and New Delhi, a US State Department spokesperson has said.…
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Japan power company seeks to raise household electricity prices by 30%
Tokyo: The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) said that it has applied to the government to raise its regulated electricity rates for households by around 30 percent from June in…
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7 dead in 2nd California shooting within days
San Francisco: At least seven people were shot dead by a gunman in California, just two days after one of the deadliest mass shooting incident in the US state just two days…
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‘Poland would request authorisation from Germany to send tanks to Ukraine’
Warsaw: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that his government would request authorisation from Germany to send the Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. But he also said that Poland would send the…
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Police beat African-American man like ‘human pinata’: Lawyers
Washington: A 29-year-old African-American man, who died on January 10 of unspecified injuries just three days after he was stopped by police in Memphis for reckless driving, was beaten like a “human…
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PM Shehbaz Sharif orders inquiry into power outage in Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into the power outage in Pakistan that took place at around 7:34 am on Monday and left many cities including Karachi, Lahore,…
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Taliban arrests Chinese nationals over alleged smuggling of ‘precious’ stones
Kabul: Five men, including two Chinese nationals, were arrested by the Taliban over the alleged smuggling of an estimated 1,000 metric tons of lithium-bearing rocks out of the country, local media reported.…
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Biden nominates new special envoy for N.Korean human rights
Washington: US President Joe Biden has nominated a state department official as a new special envoy for North Korean human rights, the White House said. Julie Turner, director of East Asia and…
