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Lawyers ransack Pakistani hospital in row with doctors, patient dies
More than 100 lawyers stormed and ransacked a hospital in Pakistan today to avenge what they said was an assault by doctors there on a fellow advocate, and an elderly patient died during the disturbance, authorities said. Zulfikar Hameed, the
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U.S. grounds Saudi pilots, halts military training after base shooting
WASHINGTON: Pentagon yesterday announced it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida.
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Six dead in New Jersey shooting spree
NEW YORK: Six people including a police officer and two suspected gunmen were killed in an hours-long shootout near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey yesterday. Jersey City police chief Michael Kelly said the
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New Zealand launches an investigation into a deadly volcanic eruption
New Zealand police launched an investigation today after a volcanic eruption on an island popular with tourists killed five people, injured more than 30 and left eight people missing, who are presumed dead. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said reconnaissance flights
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Ukraine and Russia agree on full ceasefire by year end
PARIS: Ukraine and Russia have agreed on a full and comprehensive implementation of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine before the end of 2019, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. A joint declaration issued by French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela
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Australians flee as soaring temperature, winds threaten to fan fires
Residents in parts of eastern Australia evacuated their homes today as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to fan bushfires in a giant blaze north of Sydney, the country’s biggest city. Air quality in parts of Sydney plunged as the
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Russia banned from next Olympics and World Cup soccer
Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years yesterday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) executive committee acted after
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As Democrats close in on impeachment charges, Republicans cry foul
Democrats sought yesterday to bolster the case for impeaching President Donald Trump, describing his pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political rival as a “clear and present danger” to national security and the upcoming US election. Democrats planned to make
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Albania boycotts Nobel prize awards ceremony as ‘genocide denier’ conferred
TIRANA: Albania will boycott this year’s Nobel prize award ceremony in protest against the literature award being given to author Peter Handke. Handke is a controversial figure as he had dismissed the 1992-1995 Bosnian genocide as ‘fake’ in the past.
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NZ car crash: Bodies of four Malaysian family members to be buried today
KOTA KINABALU: The bodies of the four members of a Malaysian family who were killed in a road crash in New Zealand will be buried in Christchurch at 6.30 am (Malaysian time). This was confirmed by Dr Rumihati Abd Hamid’s
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