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Heavy fighting near Yemen’s Marib leaves 96 dead
Heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib has killed 96 combatants over the past two days as Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government’s last northern toehold, loyalist commanders said yesterday.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Heavy fighting near Yemen’s Marib leaves 96 dead
Heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib has killed 96 combatants over the past two days as Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government’s last northern toehold, loyalist commanders said yesterday.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
EC tightens curbs as WB heads for 5th round of voting
A 72-hour campaign silence period will be in place in the remaining rounds of voting in West Bengal, the Indian Election Commission said yesterday, citing rising Covid cases.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Iran says production of 60% enriched uranium ‘underway’
Iran has begun producing uranium at 60 percent purity and is making nine grams per hour, the head of the Islamic republic’s atomic agency said yesterday.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Iran says production of 60% enriched uranium ‘underway’
Iran has begun producing uranium at 60 percent purity and is making nine grams per hour, the head of the Islamic republic’s atomic agency said yesterday.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
France advises citizens to leave Pakistan
France has advised French citizens to temporarily leave Pakistan and warned of serious threats to French interests in the country, two diplomatic sources said yesterday, after violent clashes there this week.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
US slaps sanctions on Russia after Biden-Putin talks
The United States yesterday announced sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of 10 diplomats in retaliation for what Washington says is the Kremlin’s US election interference, a massive cyber attack and other hostile activity.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
US envoy Kerry starts climate talks in China
US climate envoy John Kerry met with his Chinese counterparts in Shanghai yesterday, in the first visit to China by an official from a Biden administration seeking to re-establish America’s leadership on the environment.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Young climate activists sue Brazil over ‘carbon trick’
Six young climate activists are suing the Brazilian government for revising its commitments under the Paris Agreement in a way that allows the country to emit more greenhouse gases, environmentalists said Wednesday.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Canada to grant PR to 90,000 students, workers
Canada will grant permanent residency to more than 90,000 foreign students and workers who helped treat patients during the pandemic, the immigration minister announced Wednesday.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Drone attack targets Kurdish Iraq’s Arbil airport
An attack on an airport in Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, was carried out by drone on Wednesday, the Kurdish interior ministry said, in an unprecedented escalation of the arms used to target US soldiers based there.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Waive Covid vaccine property rules
Some 170 former country leaders and Nobel prize laureates have called on the US to waive intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines to give poorer countries faster access to inoculations as coronavirus cases are alarmingly surging again in some parts of the globe.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Time to end the forever war’
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan starting May 1 to end America’s longest war, rejecting calls for them to stay to ensure a peaceful resolution to that nation’s grinding internal conflict.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Talks resume amid sabotage shadow
Talks to save the Iran nuclear deal resumed in Vienna yesterday amid new tensions, with Tehran preparing to ramp up uranium enrichment in response to an attack on a facility it blamed on arch-foe Israel.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Canada Will Grant Permanent Residency To 90,000 Students And Foreign Workers
Canada will grant permanent residency to more than 90,000 foreign students and workers who helped treat patients during the pandemic, the immigration minister announced Wednesday.
15 April 2021, 08:04 AM
White House hopes US and Russia can work on arms, Iran
The United States expects its relationship with Russia to remain a challenge but hopes that they can work together on arms control issues, the Iran nuclear deal and other issues, a White House spokeswoman said.
14 April 2021, 02:15 AM
Don’t play with fire on Taiwan
China yesterday told the United States to stop playing with fire over Taiwan and lodged a complaint after Washington issued guidelines that will enable US officials to meet more freely with officials from the island that China claims as its own.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia calls US ‘adversary’
The United States called on Russia to halt a military build-up on Ukraine’s border yesterday as Moscow, in words recalling the Cold War, said its “adversary” should keep US warships well away from annexed Crimea.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Mamata paints in silent protest
An uncommon calm prevailed around West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday as she sat in her wheelchair at the Gandhi Murti in Kolkata in protest against her being banned from campaigning for 24 hours.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea
Japan will release more than 1.3 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the government said yesterday, a move China called “extremely irresponsible”, while South Korea summoned Tokyo’s ambassador in Seoul to protest.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM