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UK: Britain’s Prince William has launched an attack on space tourism, urging more attention on problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit. The comments by Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson aired in a BBC interview on…
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BRAZIL: Most of us have our mobile phones attached to our bodies like an extra limb. While we have all been told to get off the phone and reduce screen time at least once in our lives, it is holding onto the phone that saved a…
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INDIA: An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife has been handed a double life sentence in what prosecutors have called the “rarest of rare” cases. Sooraj Kumar, 28, set loose a highly venomous Russell’s viper…
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LEBANON: Armed clashes erupted on Thursday in Beirut during a protest organised by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies against the lead judge probing last year’s blast in the city’s port. At least six people were…
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US: Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Centre’s intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, his doctors told CNN on Thursday. “He was…
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SWITZERLAND: Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise again globally for the first time in a decade, linked to disruptions in access to healthcare because of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Orgnization said Thursday. The setback has…
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US: Mixing COVID-19 vaccines produces as much or more antibodies as using the same shot as a booster, according to preliminary results of a widely awaited US government-sponsored trial. The trial is the first major US study to…
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NORWAY: A 37-year-old man was charged Thursday in connection with a bow-and-arrow rampage in a small town in Norway that killed five people, and police said they had been in contact with him in the past over concerns that he had been…
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AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi has appealed to the world for good relations but avoided making firm commitments on girls’ education, despite international demands to allow all Afghan…
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CHINA: China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned against what it called possible “political manipulation” of a renewed probe by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the coronavirus, while saying it would support…
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