Tue 11 August 2020: Coronavirus cases rise to over 4,100 in semi-autonomous region, also seeing wave of arrests under controversial new law ANKARA (AA) – Hong Kong, the semi-autonomous region under China, is now fighting on two fronts – the COVID-19 pandemic as well issues of national security, seen through the prism of a controversial […]
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Mon 10 August 2020: Volcano on Sumatra island spews clouds of ashes up to 5 kilometers Sinabung volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra island erupted again Monday, said local authorities. The volcanic activity started at 10.16 a.m. local time [0316GMT], an official from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazar Mitigation told Anadolu Agency. “Ash column towered […]
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Mon 10 August 2020: As many as 100,000 expatriate workers will permanently leave Kuwait by the end of this year, Al-Qabas newspaper reported yesterday. The paper quoted security sources as saying that campaigns have intensified over the past few months to tackle the issue of “residency trade” which led to 450 companies being referred for investigation and […]
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Mon 10 August 2020: Police accuse Apple Daily tabloid founder of ‘foreign collusion’, arrest 6 others Top media practitioner and founder of Apple Daily tabloid in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was arrested at his residence on Monday, according to local media. Jimmy was arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion under newly imposed national security […]
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Mon 10 August 2020: Experts have believed that India’s coronavirus peak is yet to come. As per World Health Organization data, India has been recorded more coronavirus cingle-day cases than the United States or Brazil for past four days. NEW DELHI – India’s recoveries from the novel coronavirus rose to 1,530,070 on Monday, accounting for […]
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Sun 09 August 2020: 10 more people die in floods in ongoing floods while over 33,000 people infected with water borne diseases DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday registered 10 more deaths in floods, taking the fatalities count to 184 as the South Asian country faces one of the worst floods in history. Over 33,000 […]
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Sun 09 August 2020: The US will cut troop levels in Afghanistan to less than 5,000 by the end of November, according to its defense chief in an interview with Fox News. US currently has about 8,600 troops in Afghanistan. Defence Secretary Mark Esper confirmed the move during an interview with Fox on Saturday, adding […]
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Sat 08 August 2020: Kadavoor Jayan, an RSS worker, was stabbed to death near his own house in Kollam, Kerala. His brother-in-law Raghunatha Pillai was also attacked. Kerala: Nine individuals belonging to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kollam court in an eight-year-old-murder case concerning Kadavoor Jayan, who […]
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Sat 08 August 2020: Grand assembly tells gov’t to free remaining 400 Taliban prisoners, supports call for permanent cease-fire KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga, the highest consultative body of elders, on Saturday urged the government to release the remaining 400 Taliban prisoners to push forward the peace process. On the second day of […]
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Fri 07 August 2020: 27 potential vaccines are tested around the world, some 139 are in development phase pre-trial, according to WHO data A coronavirus vaccine developed by German firm BioNTech, whose co-founder is Turkish scientist Dr. Ugur Sahin, has started trials on humans in China after Germany and the US. Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma drug […]
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