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‘Suspected shisha bar gunman published racist manifesto’
HANAU: A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views, prosecutors said yesterday. The presumed attacker,
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Judge sentences Stone to 3-1/3 years imprisonment, reprimands Trump
WASHINGTON: A federal judge yesterday sentenced President Donald Trump’s long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election posed a threat to
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Scientists refute theories suggesting COVID-19 has no natural origin
LONDON: Health experts from multiple countries have rejected claims that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin, and condemned related conspiracy theories, reported Xinhua news agency. “We are public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel
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COVID-19: Two Iranians die, no contact with Chinese nationals
TEHRAN: Two Iranians who died from the novel coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, in the city of Qom had no any contact with Chinese citizens or people who have visited China, Masoud Mardani, a member of the National Committee on Infectious Diseases
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Iranian parliamentary election campaign period ends
DUBAI: Campaigning officially ended today for Iran’s parliamentary election, state media said, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the Islamic republic. The vote to pick 290 lawmakers is Iran’s first since U.S.
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Brazil’s ‘last samurai’ has no plans to stop making katanas
CURITIBA, Brazil: From the outside, the modest home of 61-year-old Edson Suemitsu looks little different from others in this middle-class neighbourhood of Curitiba, a sleepy city in southern Brazil. But enter the gates and you’ll find a lush garden, overarched
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Hanau attack: Suspected perpetrator found dead at home, 1 more body found
MOSCOW: A suspected perpetrator of the shooting attacks in Hanau, German was found dead at his home today, Sputnik news agency quoted the police of southeastern Hessen as saying. Yesterday, an unknown gunman opened fire at two shisha bars in
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Australia to hold wide-ranging inquiry into disastrous bushfires
SYDNEY: Australia will hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the causes of recent bushfires that killed 33 people and razed an area the size of South Korea, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday. Australia has for months been battling hundreds of
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Rapper Pop Smoke shot dead in Hollywood Hills home
LOS ANGELES: Rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed yesterday in a rented multi-million-dollar home in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, and police said they were searching for several suspects, at least one whom was armed and wearing a mask during
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Bloomberg comes under fire at Democratic presidential debate in Nevada
LAS VEGAS: Michael Bloomberg came under heavy fire at his first Democratic presidential debate yesterday, with rivals leaping to criticise him as a billionaire copy of President Donald Trump who would lead the party to defeat in November. The nationally
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