A Saudi custom officer opens imported pomegranates, as customs foiled an attempt to smuggle more than five million pills of Captagon they said came via Lebanon, at Jeddah Islamic Port, Saudi Arabia in 2021. [File: Saudi Press Agency via AP] Wed 10 May 2023: Captagon has featured large in regional diplomatic discussions as some Arab […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: Pakistani authorities have restricted access to Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms amid mounting violence in the country generated by the arrest of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. “Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed in some regions,” NetBlocks, the global internet monitor, said on Tuesday. Amnesty International said officials at […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: A US jury has decided that Donald Trump sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by calling her a liar, striking a legal blow to the former US president as he seeks re-election in 2024. The verdict was read out in a federal court in […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: According to new research, implementing essential and affordable health care interventions, such as aspirin, for expectant mothers could avert the deaths of over 1 million newborns or stillbirths in developing nations annually. An international team of researchers also estimated that one-quarter of the world’s babies are born either premature or underweight, […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: The United Nations said on Tuesday (May 9) that heavy fighting in Sudan has displaced more than 700,000 people in the country since mid-April, adding the figure doubled in a week. Addressing a press conference in Geneva, Paul Dillon, a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, “There […]
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Tue 08 May 2023: The chief of Russia’s Wagner Group has accused a Russian military unit of fleeing positions near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, in his latest scathing attack against Russia’s military leadership. “Today, everything is being done so that the front line crumbles. Today, one of the defence ministry’s units fled one of our […]
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Tue 09 May 2023: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Kahn has been arrested during a court appearance in Islamabad. Fawad Chaudhry of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, confirmed the arrest of the former prime minister in a tweet, Another arrest video of Imran Khan. pic.twitter.com/uOg8FV2dGn — Ihtisham Ul Haq (@iihtishamm) May 9, 2023 #VIDEO: #Pakistan‘s former Prime Minister […]
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly. Mon 08 May 2023: Canada has declared Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat allegedly behind the intimidation of a conservative lawmaker, “persona non grata,” Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Monday. “Canada has decided to declare persona non grata Mr. Zhao Wei,” Joly said in a statement. Canada will not […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: The EU delegation in Israel has cancelled its Europe Day diplomatic reception over the planned participation of far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. “Regrettably, this year we have decided to cancel the diplomatic reception as we do not want to offer a platform to someone whose views contradict the […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: A second blast in 36 hours has rocked the area around the Sikh holy site of the Golden Temple in India’s Amritsar city, according to local police. Devotees reported that officials arrived soon after the early morning blast on Monday, when hundreds of people would have been at the shrine, to […]
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