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U.S. imposes travel ban from eight African countries over Omicron variant

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 […]

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New COVID variant Omicron triggers global alarm, market sell-off

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

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Night temperature again falls to freezing point in Kashmir

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

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NIA carries out searches at 5 locations in Shopian, Budgam

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Nov 25 National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out searches at five locations in southern Kashmir area of Shopian and central Kashmir’s Budgam districts in connection with “Al- Qaeda case of Lucknow UP.” According to an NIA statement, the case pertains to Umar Halmandi, an alleged Al-Qaeda operative, who along with other

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Gulmarg coldest as night temperature rises in Kashmir

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

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Cloud cover increases night temperature in Kashmir

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

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Israel ‘terrorised’ family of Palestinian man killed

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

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Israel signals readiness to escalate confrontation with Iran

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

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