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Austin: Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses as a huge swath of the US braced for a major winter storm that was set to put millions of Americans in the path of heavy snow and freezing rain. The approaching blast of frigid weather, which was […]
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Dubai: A streaming website that features Iranian state television programming has acknowledged suffering technical issues amid reports that dissident hackers played an anti-government message on the platform. Telewebion said it suffered “infrastructure” irregularities Tuesday and suffered an archive failure, without elaborating on the cause. The problems came as a video message circulated online claiming to […]
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Jakarta: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku early Wednesday, but it was not potential for a tsunami. The quake struck at 4:25 a.m. Wednesday local time (1925 GMT Tuesday), with the epicenter at 86 km northeast of Maluku Barat Daya district and the depth of 131 km under seabed, Xinhua reported citing […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries that are starting to lift Covid-19 measures to do so in a steady and slow way, as recent data have shown a sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths around the world. “Since the Omicron variant was first identified just 10 weeks ago, almost 90 million cases […]
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Washington: Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 381.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.68 million and vaccinations to over 9.95 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that […]
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New York: The New York Times said on Monday that it has bought Wordle, the free online word game that has exploded in popularity and, for some, become a daily obsession. It listed the purchase price as being in the low-seven figures, but did not disclose specifics. The Times, which has popular word games like […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 74,332,396 and 884,260, according to the CSSE.
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Kabul: The Unicef has urged the US State Department to reconsider the latter’s decision to suspend the Fulbright program for Afghanistan, which provides talented Afghan youth opportunities to build their future. The Fulbright program was first launched in 1952 in Afghanistan. It was suspended in 1997 and then re-launched in 2003 after the US and […]
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New Delhi: Tech giants such as Google and Facebook will be required to pay newspapers and other media outlets for using their stories, under new laws being drawn up by the UK Government, Daily Mail reported. Under the plans, which are modelled on a system that has been introduced in Australia, the platforms will be […]
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Trudeau and his family were moved to a different location in Ottawa, CBC said on Saturday, adding that trucks with banners denouncing Trudeau and Canadian public health measures were gathering along Wellington Street in front of the Parliament Buildings.
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Washington: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the initial registration period for the coveted H1-B visas for FY2023 will run through March 1-18. In a statement on Saturday, the USCIS said that during the above mentioned period “prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registrations using […]
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The Jalisco Civil Protection and Fire Department said on Twitter that the vehicle overturned at the Leon-Aguascalientes highway in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency.
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New Delhi: As part of the countrys ongoing humanitarian help, India supplied the fourth batch of medical assistance to Afghanistan comprising three tonnes of essential life-saving medicines. The shipment was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul. “India stands committed to continue its special relationship with the people of Afghanistan and provide humanitarian […]
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New Delhi: Even as reports emerge of a new lethal variant called ‘NeoCov’ that requires only one mutation to infiltrate human cells, doctors on Saturday advised people not to panic. NeoCoV has been discovered by scientists from the Wuhan University in China in a bat population in South Africa. While it has only been known […]
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The Finnish Foreign Ministry said the victims were targeted through Pegasus software developed by Israeli spyware company NSO Group.
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According to the report in The New York Times, the Israeli spyware Pegasus and a missile system were the "centerpieces" of a roughly USD 2-billion deal of sophisticated weapons and intelligence gear between India and Israel in 2017.
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Baghdad: A rocket attack targeting the Baghdad International Airport, which damaged two passenger planes and the runway, was aimed at isolating Iraq internationally by undermining its reputation, officials said. Friday’s rocket attack on the airport “represents a new attempt to undermine Iraq’s reputation, which we have endeavoured to restore regionally and internationally, through endangering international […]
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Washington: Shortage of microchips in production processes in the United States cost the American economy 240 billion USD last year, and electronics companies encountered the most significant impact, the US broadcaster CBS News reported, citing experts. Disruptions were sparked by closure of major chip production plants in Asia due to the pandemic, according to the […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 74,058,529 and 882,275, according to the CSSE.
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Hyderabad: Living his childhood dream and floating in space is Raja Jon Vurputoor ‘Grinder’ Chari, the Commander of SpaceX Crew-3 (Expedition 66), who is currently docked at the International Space Station (ISS), and gets to watch a sunrise every 45 minutes! Travelling at 17,500 mph and orbiting Earth every 90 minutes, in an exclusive interaction […]
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Beijing: Wuhan is back in the news as a team of scientists have warned of a lethal variant called ‘NeoCov’ that requires only one mutation to infiltrate human cells and carries the combination of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS)-CoV mortality rate (where one in every three infected persons may die) and the current SARS-CoV-2 […]
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Lahore: A 14-year-old boy shot dead his entire family, including mother and two minor sisters, allegedly “under the influence” of online game PUBG, police here in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province said on Friday. Nahid Mubarak, a 45-year-old health worker, was found dead along with her 22-year-old son Taimur and two daughters aged 17 […]
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Copenhagen: Norway 84-year-old King Harald V will take a few days off with cold symptoms, the palace said Friday, a day after meeting with Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt who later tested positive for the coronavirus. The royal household said in a brief statement that all necessary examinations and tests will be carried out, and that […]
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London: Manchester United’s star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has given his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez the ‘ultimate birthday present’ — her own laser show featuring her face on the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The winner of five Ballon d’Or awards, Ronaldo has reportedly spent 50,000 pounds to put the promotional facade […]
