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Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) -New local COVID-19 infections more than doubled in China’s southeastern province of Fujian, health authorities said on Tuesday, prompting officials to quickly roll out measures including travel restrictions to halt the spread of the virus. The National Health Commission said 59 new locally transmitted cases were reported for Sept. 13, […]

Published by Al-Araby A Palestinian has been shot and wounded by police, Israeli officials said, claiming he stabbed and injured two people in a Jerusalem cosmetics shop on Monday amid heightened tensions since a daring prison escape by six Palestinian prisoners a week ago. The military alleged this incident came hours after a Palestinian used

Published by Al-Araby The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement on Monday saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral on social media. Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was last week named as a number two to Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, blamed “fake

Published by Reuters By Dilara Senkaya ISTANBUL (Reuters) – More than 2,000 Turks demonstrated in Istanbul on Saturday against official coronavirus-related mandates including vaccinations, tests and masks, responding to new government measures and an inoculation push. In Turkey’s largest such protest, mostly maskless people shouted slogans, held placards and Turkish flags, and sang songs in

Published by DPA Hundreds of thousands of students returned to classrooms on Sunday, as Bangladesh reopened schools after nearly one and a half years of closure due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. “The students of the first to fourth grades, and sixth to ninth grades, will attend classes once a week for an initial period

Published by Al-Araby Afghanistan’s central bank has ordered banks to pay out remittances in local currency only, the latest move to preserve scarce US dollars, say sources familiar with the matter. Hard currency remittances have formed an important source of external finance for Afghanistan over the years but dollar availability has dried up in the

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar The authorities have terminated the services of a judge who was appointed as judicial officer in 2000 on a fake Reserved Backward Certificate (RBA). On the recommendations of the Full Court of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Lieutenant Governor ordered the termination of services of Mohammad Yousuf Allai,

Published by Reuters By Rami Ayyub NAZARETH, Israel (Reuters) -Israeli forces on Saturday captured two more of the six Palestinian militants who escaped from a maximum security jail this week, a police spokesperson said. The two men were found in a truck parking lot in an Arab village in northern Israel, near the city of

Published by Reuters By Francois Murphy, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) – U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between Iran and the West just as it risks escalating and scuppering negotiations on reviving the Iran nuclear deal. Three diplomats who

Published by DPA Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under pressure on Thursday in the last televised debate of top candidates before parliamentary elections. His Conservative Party opponent Erin O’Toole criticized Trudeau for his decision to call an early election despite the crisis in Afghanistan and the current coronavirus pandemic. “You called an election, so