Canberra: Smoke from Australia’s devastating 2019-20 bushfires killed at least 445 people, health experts revealed on Tuesday. Fay Johnston, a public health expert from the Menzies Institute for Medical Research …
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Dubai: An Indian expat, who recently recovered from COVID-19, fell to his death from a building in Dubai, police said. The 26-year-old Indian national from Kerala, fell from the seventh …
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Seoul: South Korea is on track for its second phase of school reopening on Wednesday, bringing back more than 2 million students to their schools nationwide amid the new coronavirus …
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Kabul: The Afghan government on Tuesday released another batch of 900 Taliban inmates in the latest move to further advance the intra-Afghan peace talks with the militant group, a spokesperson …
Afghan govt releases another 900 Taliban inmates Read MoreIslamabad: Kazim Niaz, Chief Secretary of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, has tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently gone into quarantine, joining a list of government official infected with the …
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Berlin; The German government’s Economic Stabilization Fund (WSF) has approved a 9 billion euro rescue package ($9.8 billion) for Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the flag carrier announced in a statement. In the …
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Washington; US President Donald Trump said that he would be “reluctantly forced” to move the Republican National Convention (RNC) scheduled to be held in August in North Carolina to a new …
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London; UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings has defended his actions during his first public appearance since a major row erupted over reports that he “broke” the country’s …
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Jerusalem; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country will not miss “the historic opportunity” to annex a portion of occupied West Bank. Speaking during a meeting of lawmakers of …
Netanyahu determined to push forward West Bank annexation Read MoreWashington; The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 5.5 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 346,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of …
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