KABUL: The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group. “Yes, it’s…
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Kyiv : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday said peace talks with Russia to end the war were tough and sometimes confrontational but added “step by step we are moving forward.” In an early morning…
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The pilots of the doomed China Eastern Airlines flight failed to respond to calls from air-traffic controllers after tipping into a deadly nosedive. The jet was traveling at close to the speed of sound just…
Read MoreRescuers continued the search for survivors from Monday’s crash of a China Eastern Airlines aircraft in the hills of southern China, while the airline, China’s second-largest, grounded its entire Boeing 737-800 fleet. As of March…
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Beijing: China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country’s northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept Covid at bay since it…
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The wife of former Ukrainian Member of Parliament Kotvytskyy reportedly attempted to flee the country with 28 million dollars and 1.3 million euros in cash stashed in suitcases. She tried to escape war-torn Ukraine and…
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In a clear reference to groupings like the Quad, a top Chinese foreign ministry official has drawn parallels between “the NATO strategy of eastward expansion in Europe” and the creation of “small blocs” and “group…
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Ashish Jha, an Indian-origin physician and public health specialist from Brown University, has been appointed the new White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. Dr. Jha will replace Jeff Zeints, who has led the Biden administration’s pandemic…
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Visuals of civilians being dug out of rubble amid rescuing operations were some of the defining images of survival a day after an iconic theatre in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol was targeted in Russian…
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Tokyo: A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday (March 16, 2022) night, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people. A small tsunami reached shore,…
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