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NEW ZEALAND: A coronavirus case that plunged New Zealand into a snap national lockdown was confirmed as the Delta variant Wednesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, as four more cases emerged. Ardern said one of the new cases…
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US: The Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbott who has been a forceful opponent of mask mandates, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Tuesday, one day after attending an indoor public event. Abbott, who is fully…
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SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa has started manufacturing rapid Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits in an effort to stop relying on imports and improve the country’s competitiveness, said Minister of Higher Education, Science…
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JAPAN: Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life’s work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duct cancer. Known as the “Godfather of…
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US: One of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ handwritten job application, which he filled way back in 1973 was recently auctioned off for a whopping USD 3,43,00 (around Rs 2.5 crore). “The Steve Jobs’…
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AFGHANISTAN: In their first comments on governance, the Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to emolliate nerves across Kabul where women fear recurrence of the dreadful…
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RUSSIA: The Russian Embassy in Kabul has said that Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not fit in, the RIA news agency…
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AFGHANISTAN: Images from an evacuation flight being operated by the US Air Force between Kabul and Qatar surfaced on the internet in the aftermath of the chaotic visuals from Kabul Airport. The military plane called the Boeing…
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US: Pentagon officials said that after interruptions, the airlift was back on track and being accelerated despite weather problems. The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians hoping to join a…
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AFGHANISTAN: Among the many fears the Afghans are living with is that of the women in the country who are dreading the loss of the gains they have made over the years in terms of civil rights. The fear reflects in the fact that the…
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