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Published by Reuters By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson NANTUCKET, Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will bar entry to most travelers from eight southern African countries starting on Monday, after a potentially more-contagious new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa, President Joe Biden said on Friday. The new variant, dubbed Omicron, poses a new […]

Published by Reuters By David Shepardson and Stephanie Nebehay WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) – The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. The World

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A day after some respite, mercury dropped to below freezing point across Kashmir Valley with Pahalgam being the coldest at minus 3.3°C on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that mercury settled at minus 1.3°C against previous night’s 0.4°C. On November 23, the mercury settled at minus 2.3°C in city

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A militant was killed after an infiltration bid was foiled in Poonch area of Jammu. Army on Friday claimed to have foiled the infiltration attempt by killing a Pakistani militant along Line of Control in Poonch district last night. “On night 25 November 2021, Pak (militant) attempted an infiltration bid along LoC

Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, and most other places in Kashmir recorded rise in minimum temperature amid cloud cover on Thursday. Two days after experiencing the coldest night of the season with temperature plummeting as low as minus 2.3°C, Srinagar witnessed 0.4°C against previous night’s 0.3°C, a meteorological department here told GNS. Qazigund recorded

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Police on Wednesday claimed to have killed three militants including a top TRF commander in a gunfight at Rambagh area of Srinagar. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar told GNS that the militants were killed in the encounter with police this evening. He said that one of “three militants killed in gunfight” at Rambagh

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, A day after Srinagar recorded season’s coldest night so far, the minimum temperature rose in the summer capital and elsewhere in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that mercury settled at 0.3°C against previous night’s minus 1.7°C which happened to be the coldest low temperature recorded so

Published by Al-Araby Israeli forces have “terrorised” the family of a Palestinian man who was killed on Sunday after opening fire on Israelis in Jerusalem, his brother-in-in-law has told The New Arab. Fadi Abu Shkheidem was shot dead by Israeli forces after he fired at Israelis with an automatic weapon near the Al-Aqsa compound, leaving

Published by Al-Araby Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signalled readiness on Tuesday to step up Israel’s confrontation with Iran and reiterated that his country would not be bound by any new Iranian nuclear deal with world powers. Indirect negotiations will begin on November 29 about reviving the 2015 deal, which former US President Donald Trump withdrew