Thu 03 February 2022: United States President Joe Biden has said the leader of ISIL (ISIS) has been “taken off the battlefield” following an overnight raid in Syria that also killed six children and four women A senior US administration official told reporters ISIL leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in the raid. The official said […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: The UK government’s proposed Nationality and Borders Bill is set to extend the controversial Schedule 7 measures to apply to refugees and migrants who arrive in the country through irregular sea routes. Under the 2000 Terrorism Act, police and border officials are allowed to detain and interrogate anyone arriving at British ports and […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: According to a police study released on Thursday, children in Japan experienced an increase in abuse cases last year as a result of limited welfare measures brought on by coronavirus precautions. Last year, the country’s National Police Agency investigated 2,170 complaints of child abuse, a 1.7 percent increase over the previous […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the country will start reopening its borders in a phased plan beginning with its own citizens, as it relaxes a strict quarantine system that was imposed at the start of the pandemic. The five-stage plan will start with fully vaccinated New Zealanders in neighbouring Australia […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: According to villagers and rebel fighters, several civilians, including children, were killed in a raid by US special operations forces in northwest Syria. Local sources told Al Jazeera on Thursday at least 12 people, including seven children and three women, were killed in the overnight operation near the Turkey border in […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: The US stated on Wednesday that international banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups can pay teachers and healthcare personnel at state-run institutions without risk of violating sanctions on the Taliban. The US Department of the Treasury has issued guidance on sanctions exemptions granted in September […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: Dissidents join rights groups in warning against any effort by Beijing to use Games as ‘sports-washing opportunity’. After he was arrested at the age of 20 in China’s Xinjiang and eventually escaped to Turkey in 2005, all Kuzzat Altay wanted was to live in peace in the United States, where he […]
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Wed 02 February 2022: US President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to Eastern Europe as Washington moves to avert a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said on Wednesday that troops would soon be moved to Poland, Romania and Germany in response to the “current security climate”. He told […]
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Wed 02 February 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning about a sub-variant of the extremely contagious coronavirus Omicron (COVID-19). According to WHO, the sub-variant is significantly more contagious than the original version, and it has been found in at least 57 countries so far. The Omicron variant was discovered in November […]
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Wed 02 February 2022: Saudi Arabia is inching towards changes to the royal decree that governs its national anthem and green flag, which is inscribed with Islam’s proclamation of faith, identifying the country as the birthplace of the religion. Late on Monday, the kingdom’s un-elected consultative Shura Council voted in favour of changes, state-run media […]
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