World
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US to ban all flights to China ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics
Washington: The US will be banning all commercial flights to China from January 19 as Beijing tries to keep coronavirus infections at bay ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Starting next week,…
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Pak to offer permanent residency scheme for rich foreign nationals to boost weak economy
Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to offer a permanent residency scheme for wealthy foreign nationals, including Sikhs living in the US and Canada, Afghans and Chinese, to attract investment and boost its flagging…
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Zuckerberg, Pichai signed ‘big deal’ to carve up ad market: Report
San Francisco: A serious anti-trust complaint in the US has reportedly revealed that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were allegedly involved in an ad collusion plot,…
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Russia arrests top hackers at US govt’s request, won’t extradite
Moscow: Russia has arrested several members of the well-known hacker group called REvil at the request of the US government after it was established that the infamous group was involved in several…
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UN fund for vulnerable children in Bangladesh, Pakistan
New Delhi: Education Cannot Wait (ECW) has announced a total of $91.7 million in catalytic grant financing for new and expanded Multi-Year Resilience Programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Lebanon, Libya, and Sudan. All…
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ATEEZ’s ‘Wonderland’ MV hits 100 million views on YouTube
Seoul: K-pop group ATEEZ’s music video (MV) has surpassed 100 million views for the first time. According to their agency KQ Entertainment, the title song ‘Wonderland’ of ATEEZ’s first full-length album “TREASURE…
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Rich countries dump 100 mn near expiry Covid shots to poor nations
London: Third world nations were offered about 100 million Covid-19 vaccines that were near expiry, which the countries were forced to dump, according to the UN’s children’s fund Unicef. According to Unicef’s…
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Is a British Indian in line to be UK’s next Prime Minister?
London: As Boris Johnson’s partygate troubles mount and members of his own Conservative Party demand he step down as the British Prime Minister, one name is doing the rounds as a frontrunner…
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Imran Khan launches Pakistan’s first-ever National Security Policy
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the country’s first-ever National Security Policy, which articulates a citizen-centric framework, placing economic security at its core unlike the previous one-dimensional security policy…
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US reports over 1.5 lakh hospitalisations in 24 hrs, faces lack of medics
Washington: The number of people hospitalized in the US with Covid-19 has reached a record high — 151,261 as of Wednesday. And as the infection due to Omicron variant spreads, states and…
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CSTO Peacekeepers from Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan leave Kazakhstan
Almaty: Peacekeepers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) from Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan left Kazakhstan on Friday, reported Sputnik. Three Russian Il-76 military transport planes left Kazakhstan with Armenian peacekeepers on…
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2021 6th hottest year, last 8 years the warmest: NASA
New Delhi: Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done…
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Rights of Afghan women, girls under attack: United Nations
Kabul: The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the rights of Afghan women and girls are “under attack” and that they need the world body’s support and solidarity…