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Scotland must wait a generation for new vote
Another Scottish independence referendum should not take place for a generation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday, as Scotland’s leader renewed calls for a fresh vote in the wake of Brexit.
3 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Homes of top Republican and Democrat vandalized
Vandals have targeted the homes of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with graffiti, fake
3 January 2021, 18:00 PM
US news star Larry King hospitalized with Covid-19
Veteran talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with Covid-19, US media reported Saturday. Citing a “source close to the family,” CNN
3 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Five women killed in Yemen wedding attack
Five women were killed when a projectile exploded at a New Year’s Day wedding party in Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Israel leads the world in vaccination drive
Israel says it has vaccinated one million people – more than a tenth of its population – against Covid-19, as it rolls out one of the world’s earliest and most rapid inoculation campaigns.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Legal bid to get Pence to overturn results fails
A federal judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit from a Republican congressman that sought to allow Vice President Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes for Joe Biden when Congress meets on Jan. 6 to certify his victory over President Donald Trump.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Pakistan arrests mastermind on terror financing charge
Pakistan yesterday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty
Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly two-decade freeze on capital punishment in the authoritarian Central Asian
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Seven bodies wash up on Algeria beach
The bodies of seven people, believed to be migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe, washed up on an Algerian beach yesterday,
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Over 370,000 children born on New Year’s Day: Unicef
The UN children’s Fund (Unicef) have said an estimated 371,504 babies were expected to be born around the world on the first day of 2021.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Senate overrides Trump’s veto
The US Congress on Friday dealt Donald Trump a humiliating blow in his last days in office with the Senate voting overwhelmingly to override his veto of a sweeping defense bill -- the first time lawmakers have done so during his presidency.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Says China FM, disputes coronavirus’s origin theories
China’s relationship with the United States has reached a “new crossroads” and could get back on the right track following a period of “unprecedented difficulty”, senior diplomat Wang Yi said in official comments published yesterday.
2 January 2021, 18:00 PM
India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations
Continuing a 30-year practice, India and Pakistan yesterday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits the two countries from attacking each other’s atomic facilities.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Keep the light on’
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Europe that Scotland would be back soon, just as the United Kingdom completed its transition period out of the bloc.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Pak province to pay for rebuilding
A Hindu temple in Pakistan destroyed by a Muslim mob last week will be rebuilt using provincial government funds, its information minister said yesterday.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Mamata vows to fight for people
The Trinamool Congress yesterday celebrated its 23rd Foundation Day across West Bengal with Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee asserting that she will fight and work for the people.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Trump extends US immigration bans
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a pair of immigration bans that block many “green card” applicants and temporary foreign workers from entering the country, measures he says are needed to protect US workers amid the pandemic-battered economy.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
UK in ‘eye of the storm’
British medics yesterday warned that hospitals around the country face a perilous few weeks amid surging new coronavirus infections that have been blamed on a new variant of the virus.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kill Afghan radio journalist in car ambush
An Afghan radio journalist was shot dead yesterday in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, officials said, the fifth media worker to be killed in two months.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Rakhine insurgents release ruling party politicians
Insurgents from western Myanmar yesterday released three ruling party politicians who had been kidnapped from conflict-torn Rakhine state, a spokesman for the insurgent group said, calling it a goodwill gesture to build trust with the government.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM