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China to punish outfits promoting Taiwan independence
Beijing: Furious over the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile visit to Taipei, the first by a top American official in 25 years, China on Wednesday announced punitive measures on outfits seeking…
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Hellfire missiles: US’ sought-after secret weapon used to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri
Washington: The US drone strike that killed al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri on the balcony of a safe house in downtown Kabul points to the use of secret Hellfire missiles by the CIA…
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China to begin military drills around Taiwan as Nancy Pelosi visits
Beijing: Within minutes of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landing in Taiwan on Tuesday night, China said it would immediately begin “a series of joint military operations around the island”, including using…
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Food prices soaring across developing world amid Ukraine crisis
London: Food inflation has soared across much of the developing world since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has trapped several richer countries in a cycle of rising prices, a report by the World…
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China labels Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip as ‘extremely dangerous’
Beijing: China has branded the landmark visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “extremely dangerous”, media reports said. China accused Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years…
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Defying Beijing’s warnings, US House Speaker Pelosi arrives in Taiwan
Taipei: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, despite stern warnings from Beijing, making her the highest-level US official to visit the island in 25 years. Pelosi’s US Air…
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‘I was removed from office after publishing map including Kalapani’: Oli
Kathmandu: Former Nepalese prime minister K P Sharma Oli has claimed that he was removed from power last year after his government published a new map of Nepal that included Kalapani, Limpiyadhura…
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Family members of 9/11 survivors cheer al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri’s death
Washington: The family members of a 9/11 survivors group have expressed gratitude to US President Joe Biden for eliminating al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, saying it…
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India, Maldives ink six agreements to expand cooperation
New Delhi: India and Maldives on Tuesday inked six agreements to expand cooperation in several key areas with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that New Delhi has been and will continue to…
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Pakistan: Death toll from rain, floods reaches 478
Islamabad: The incessant monsoon rain and subsequent floods reported across Pakistan for the past seven weeks has so far killed 478 people, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Tuesday. Rain-related incidents…
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How algorithms are fuelling anti-Muslim hate globally
Most of the anti-Muslim hate generated online is amplified through fake or algorithm-generated accounts, a study has revealed. Such tweets were found to often target Muslim public figures Lawrance Pintak, a former…
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Who is Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Washington: Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeded as the leader of the global terror group Al Qaeda after former US President Barack Obama took out the dreaded Osama Bin Laden in a planned attack in…
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Overlapping crises accelerating health inequality: WHO
Montreal: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that overlapping crises of Covid-19, inflation and cuts to foreign aid by wealthy countries are accelerating health inequality and disrupting health services.…
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US kills Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike, confirms Biden
Washington: Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed on Saturday in an air strike by the United States, US President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday (local time). “On Saturday, at my direction,…
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1st ship with grain leaves Ukraine’s Odesa port
Kiev: The first cargo ship carrying grain has left Ukraine’s Odesa port in line with a grain exports deal signed between Kiev and Moscow last month in Istanbul, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov…
