Category: World
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Khamenei receives domestic Covid jab
Tehran: Iran´s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday received the first dose of a domestically produced coronavirus vaccine, his social media announced, as the country battles the Middle East´s deadliest outbreak. The 81-year-old cleric´s Twitter feed published a video it said showed him “receiving the first dose of the #IranianCovidVaccine that has been developed…
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US to keep about 650 troops in Afghanistan after withdrawal
WASHINGTON: Roughly 650 US troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main American military force completes its withdrawal, which is set to be largely done in the next two weeks, US officials told The Associated Press. Moreover, several hundred additional American forces will remain at the Kabul…
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Woman refuses wedding as groom fails to read newspaper without glasses
UTTAR PRADESH, India: In a unique incident, a bride in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya called off her wedding because the groom could not read the newspaper without his spectacles. Not only was the wedding called off, a case against the groom and his family was also registered. Archana, the bride from Jamalpur village of Sadar…
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Bhutan King on ‘mountains trekking mission’ to hold down Covid deaths
KATHMANDU: Wearing a baseball cap and knee-length traditional Gho robe, carrying a backpack, Bhutan’s king has walked through jungles infested with leeches and snakes, trekked mountains and quarantined several times in a hotel in the capital. For 14 months, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, has been travelling by foot, car and horse to remote hamlets to oversee measures to protect his tiny kingdom…
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275m people used drugs worldwide in 2020: UN
GENEVA: Around 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders as 275 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, according to the 2021 World Drug Report which was released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday. As per the report, in the last 24 years, cannabis potency had increased by…
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159 people unaccounted for after Florida building collapse
SURFSIDE, United States: The number of people unaccounted for following the collapse of a Florida apartment block has risen to 159, the county”s mayor said Friday. “We do have 120 people now accounted for, which is very, very good news. But our unaccounted for number has gone up to 159,” Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine…
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Blinken says status quo was not option in Afghanistan
PARIS: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said the status quo was not an option for the US in Afghanistan, as it prepares to withdraw troops by September despite a rise in attacks. “We are seeing elevated attacks on the Afghan security forces in certain parts of the country compared to a year ago,”…
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Japan s population declines by 0.7%
ANKARA: Japan”s population declined by 0.7% during the past five years, dropping out for the first time since 1950 from the world”s top 10 countries in terms of population. The latest census data of 2020, released by the Internal Affairs Ministry on Friday, showed that the country”s population stood at 126,226,568 as of Oct. 1,…
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New type of early human found in Israel
JERUSALEM: Bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said Thursday, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution. Excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla uncovered prehistoric remains that could not be matched to any…
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Canada: 751 more unmarked graves found at residential school
An indigenous nation in Canada says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. The Cowessess First Nation said the discovery was “the most significantly substantial to date in Canada”. It comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in…