Published by Al-Araby ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — New Zealand lost the toss against Afghanistan and will field in their must-win final group game at the T20 World Cup on Sunday. New Zealand will seal the last semifinals spot without going into the complexities of net run-rates if they beat Afghanistan. Pakistan has […]
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Published by Al-Araby Iran’s military began its annual war games in a coastal area of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported Sunday, less than a month before upcoming nuclear talks with the West. The report said navy and air force units as well as ground forces were participating in a more than 1 million
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar A militant of Lashker-e-Toiba/TRF was critically injured with a bullet wound in Hermain area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. Official sources said the militant identified as Sahil Bashir Lone of Hermain was found in critical condition at native area. Some locals who saw him took him to district hospital, they
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Published by Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will start to roll out Merck’s molnupiravir COVID-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month, Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at the UK Health Security Agency said on Sunday. Last week Britain became the first country in the world to approve the potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral
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Published by Al-Araby The Iraqi army and security services carried out large-scale deployments across the centre of Baghdad on Sunday morning, in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Military helicopters, infantry units and armoured forces deployed around the Green Zone, a high security neighbourhood in the Iraqi capital
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Published by Reuters By Ann Maria Shibu and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Saturday asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter in a poll if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock. The world’s richest person had previously said he could face a “massive” tax bill this year as
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Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s weather agency issued the winter’s first snowstorm orange alert, the second-highest level, on Sunday while nationwide cold wave alarms fuelled concerns over traffic disruptions and flu outbreaks amid rising COVID-19 cases. The National Meteorological Centre forecast blizzards in northeastern China, with some regions getting 45 millimetres (1.8 inches)
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Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Australia’s largest city of Sydney will further ease social distancing curbs on Monday, a month after emerging from a coronavirus lockdown that lasted nearly 100 days, as close to 90% of people have got both doses of vaccine, officials said. Although limited to people who are fully inoculated, the relaxation
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Published by The Seattle Times GLENDALE, Ariz. – Games like these are ones that should have had the heavily favored Seattl Kraken nervous before puck drop and possibly even more so after they’d scored twice before the contest was even a minute old. The Arizona Coyotes are going through a hellacious and likely final season
Published by Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but said Kadhimi escaped unhurt. The attack, which security sources said injured several members of Kadhimi’s personal protection detail, came after protests
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