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WHO urges manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines
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India doctors embark on strike over colleague’s rape, murder
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40,000 and counting: Gazans lose tens of thousands in war
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Officer questioned for fake goods smuggling attempt
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry said that disciplinary measures will be taken against an officer if he is found guilty of involvement in an attempt to smuggle three containers of counterfeit goods from a ministry port. No smuggling attempt was reported at the customs department,” the ministry’s relations and security media department said in a statement released in response to media reports which claimed that a police colonel was involved in...
Saudi Arabia marks national day with fireworks, concerts
Amir congratulates Saudi King; Women allowed into stadium RIYADH: Saudi families sit in a stadium waving national flags, to attend an event in the capital Riyadh yesterday commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the kingdom. — AFPRIYADH: With iconic buildings bathed in green light and cultural shows, concerts and fireworks, Saudi Arabia celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the kingdom yesterday. Car stereos blared patriotic...
Iran test fires a new missile
DUBAI: Iran said yesterday it had successfully tested a new ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 km and would keep developing its arsenal, despite US pressure to stop. The United States has imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, saying its missile tests violate a UN resolution, which calls on Tehran not to undertake activities related to missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Iran says it has no such plans. Britain voiced concerns...
Bangladesh says Rohingya influx dramatically falls
COX'S BAZAR: The flood of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh has come to a virtual halt, Dhaka officials said yesterday, almost a month after violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine State and sent nearly 430,000 people fleeing across the border. Officials gave no reason for the dramatically reduced numbers. But Rohingya Muslim leaders said it could be because villages located near the border in Myanmar's Rakhine state were now empty.Bangladesh...
New earthquake shakes jittery Mexico
Officials temporarily suspend rescue operations MEXICO CITY: Rescue workers look for survivors in Mexico City yesterday, four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico. — AFPMEXICO CITY: A strong new earthquake shook Mexico yesterday, causing new alarm in a country reeling from two still-more-powerful quakes this month that have killed nearly 400 people. The US Geological Survey said the new, magnitude 6.1 temblor was centered about...
Iran tries to reconcile Syria and Hamas, rebuild network
Building a bloc of support across the region DAMASCUS: In this Dec 4, 2006 file photo, Syria’s President Bashar Assad, right, meets Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. —APBEIRUT: Iran is working to restore a lost link in its network of alliances in the Middle East, trying to bring Hamas fully back into the fold after the Palestinian militant group had a bitter fall-out with Iranian ally Syria over that country's civil war. Iran and its...
Tribes and tradition stand In the way of Iraq police
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi policeman stands in a street in the capital. —AFPBAGHDAD: Policeman Ahmad regrets the day he detained a motorist at a checkpoint for possession of a gun without a license, bringing the weight of Iraqi tribal customs down on his head. Faced with threats and the reality that state law in Iraq cannot stand muster with tribes and their customs, the police captain gathered his family and fled Baghdad to take refuge in the south of...
To vote or not, independence or not: Catalonia is divided
BARCELONA: A group of people throw ballots for the October 1 referendum from a building with a banner in favor of the referendum in Sant Jaume square. —AFPBARCELONA: Just four metro stops separate Gracia from Nou Barris, two districts in Barcelona that are nevertheless sharply divided over whether they want to stay in Spain or leave, as a banned independence referendum looms in Catalonia. The issue has the entire northeastern region split...
Boursa Kuwait drops on selling pressure
KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait ended last week in the red zone. The Price Index closed at 6,849.11 points, down by 0.94 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index decreased by 0.50 percent after closing at 439.13 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,021.60 points down by 0.53 percent. Furthermore, last week's average daily turnover decreased by 23.20 percent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 25.77 million, whereas trading...
Powerless Puerto Rico's storm crisis deepens with dam threat
Crack leads to total failure of the dam DORADO: People try to get a signal before a cellular communications tower on the expressway in Dorado, Puerto Rico, on September 22, 2017 in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. —AFPSAN JUAN: Puerto Rican officials could not communicate with more than half the towns in the US territory as they rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people downstream of a failing dam and the massive scale of the disaster...
Indian spiritual guru jailed for alleged rape
NEW DELHI: Police yesterday arrested a popular Indian spiritual guru, the second in the past month, for allegedly raping a 21-year-old woman in western India. Police officer Jaisingh Nathawat said the woman, whose parents have been followers of 70-year-old Kaushlendra Prapannacharya Falahari Maharaja, complained that the guru assaulted her on Aug 7 at his headquarters in Alwar, a town in Rajashtan state.She said that the spiritual guru warned her...
N Korean quake likely natural, not nuclear test says experts
Tensions high after N Korea's sixth nuclear test PYONGYANG: Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans gathered at Kim Il Sung Square to attend a mass rally against America. — AFPBEIJING/SEOUL: small earthquake near North Korea's nuclear test site yesterday was probably not manmade, the nuclear proliferation watchdog and a South Korean official said, easing fears Pyongyang had exploded another nuclear bomb just weeks after its last one. Chinese...
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