Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday ordered his government to promptly draw up a basic policy to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Japan. Abe …
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Ankara: At least seven people were killed and five others injured after an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck near the Turkey-Iran border on Sunday, officials said. Tremors from …
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London: The UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel has been accused of bullying senior civil servants over the last five years, a media report said. The Sun newspaper in its report on …
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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he was “not sure” a UK-European Union (EU) trade deal will be struck by December 31, the end of the Brexit transition period. …
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London: The UK’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have made an extraordinary statement laying bare their frustrations after being forced to drop their Sussex Royal brand, the media reported. …
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Ankara: Turkey is set to open the country’s first-ever space training centre, it was reported. The Gokmen Space and Aviation Training Center (GUHEM) in the northwestern city of Bursa on will …
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Kabul: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that it was “extremely concerned” over the two man contenders — President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah — disputing …
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Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that his country was open to talks with the European Union (EU) on possible ways to save the 2015 landmark nuclear deal between Tehran …
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San Francisco: The novel coronavirus “occurred naturally from animals to people” rather than being “made in some biological weapon research”, a leading US epidemiologist has said, refuting a conspiracy theory on …
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Islamabad : At least 10 people were killed and some 30 others were trapped after a rockslide hit a marble quarry in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. A disaster management …
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