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Rockets fall near Baghdad airport, no casualties

Rockets fall near Baghdad airport, no casualties

Two Katyusha rockets fell near Baghdad airport on Sunday but caused no casualties, the Iraqi military said, the third such attack on sensitive sites in the capital this week. On Saturday, a rocket fell inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, while three others landed there on Thursday. Those […]

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Turkish lawyer dies after 238-day hunger strike

Turkish lawyer dies after 238-day hunger strike

ISTANBUL: A Turkish lawyer seeking a fair trial after being charged with membership of a terrorist organisation has died in an Istanbul hospital on the 238th day of her hunger strike. Friends said Ebru Timtik weighed just 30 kilograms at the time of her death late Thursday, which has sparked condemnation from opposition parties in […]

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Afghanistan flash floods leave over 100 dead

Afghanistan flash floods leave over 100 dead

CHARIKAR: Rescue workers in Afghanistan searched on Wednesday for survivors of flash floods that killed more than 100 people and destroyed hundreds of houses near Kabul, officials said. Troops pulled dozens of victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, after torrential overnight rains fuelled fierce floods that swept through […]

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Gunfire kills one as US protests over shooting of black man turn to chaos

Gunfire kills one as US protests over shooting of black man turn to chaos

A third night of street protests over the police shooting of a black man erupted into gun violence late Tuesday and early Wednesday in Kenosha city of Wisconsin, United States killing at least one person and wounding two, the county sheriff said. Social media videos showed people screaming amid close-up images of gunshot wounds after a night […]

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UN Cautions That Virus Plasma Treatment Still Experimental

UN Cautions That Virus Plasma Treatment Still Experimental

The World Health Organisation on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a US boost for the treatment has many scientists afraid formal studies will be derailed. On Sunday, the US Food and Drug Administration authorised what’s called “emergency […]

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Daughter of New Zealand mosque victim tells gunman: consider ‘beauty of diversity’

Daughter of New Zealand mosque victim tells gunman: consider ‘beauty of diversity’

The daughter of a woman killed in the New Zealand mosque shootings challenged white supremacist Brenton Tarrant at his sentencing hearing to use his life in prison to consider the beauty of the diversity and freedom he sought to destroy. The daughter of Linda Armstrong sobbed as she addressed the court in Christchurch on Tuesday, […]

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WHO sees virus over in two years; Lebanon endures new lockdown

WHO sees virus over in two years; Lebanon endures new lockdown

GENEVA: The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, as millions of Lebanese wearily entered a new lockdown following a spike in coronavirus infections. Western Europe was also enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly […]

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Judge rules Trump must give his tax returns to prosecutor

Judge rules Trump must give his tax returns to prosecutor

NEW YORK: Donald Trump cannot block a prosecutor’s subpoena for eight years of his tax returns, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, in the latest setback in the US president’s long-standing effort to keep his finances under wraps. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan rejected Trump’s claims that the grand jury subpoena from Manhattan District […]

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Joe Biden accepts Democratic nomination: ‘I will draw on the best of us’

Joe Biden accepts Democratic nomination: ‘I will draw on the best of us’

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, beginning a general-election challenge to President Donald Trump that Democrats have cast as a rescue mission for a country equally besieged by a crippling pandemic and a White House defined by incompetence, racism and abuse of power. Speaking before a row of flags in his home state of […]

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Obama slams Trump as unfit, says US democracy is at risk

Obama slams Trump as unfit, says US democracy is at risk

Former United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday assailed his successor, Donald Trump, as deeply unfit for the office he occupies and argued that voting for his former No. 2, Joe Biden, was necessary to ensure the survival of American democracy. “He’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common […]

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