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US Gulf energy assets ‘exposed’
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Tokyo's Shinjuku to ban more than half of vacation rentals
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China isn’t trapping Africa in debt: FM
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans,
6 January 2022
‘I’ll defend this nation’
President Joe Biden yesterday accused his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to American democracy in a speech on the anniversary of the deadly US Capitol attack by Trump supporters who tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
6 January 2022
18 security officers dead, scores injured in Kazakhstan amid violent unrest
Casualties among Kazakh security officers Thursday rose to 18 dead and 748 wounded as authorities sought to quell unrest in the ex-Soviet country, Russian news agencies reported, citing the interior ministry.
6 January 2022
Trump's web of lies threat to democracy: Biden on Capitol riot anniversary
President Joe Biden on Thursday accused his predecessor Donald Trump of posing a continuing threat to American democracy in a speech on the anniversary of the deadly U.S. Capitol attack by Trump supporters who tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
6 January 2022
Russia-led alliance to send peacekeepers to Kazakhstan amid protests
A Russia-led security alliance of ex-Soviet states will send peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan, Armenia's prime minister said on Thursday, after the Kazakh president appealed for their help in quelling violent and deadly protests.
6 January 2022
8 Children among 12 dead in US house fire
Jacuita Purifoy lost ten family members when a fire tore through a converted three-story house in Philadelphia Wednesday, killing 12 people in one of the United States' deadliest residential infernos in recent years.
6 January 2022
Six million need aid in drought-hit parts of Ethiopia: UN
More than six million people in drought-hit areas of eastern and southern Ethiopia will need “life-saving” assistance this year, the UN’s emergency response agency said in a new report.
5 January 2022
Behead mannequins!
The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan city of Herat to cut off the heads of mannequins. A video clip showing men
5 January 2022
Trump cancels Jan 6 press meet
Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly gave up his plan to steal the limelight on the anniversary of the January 6th assault against Congress,
5 January 2022
Herd immunity?
With new versions forcing vaccine makers to re-test jabs, the virus that causes Covid-19 has proven highly unpredictable.
5 January 2022
‘Ingredients for civil war’ there
Myanmar has “all the ingredients for civil war”, Cambodia, chair of Southeast Asia’s regional bloc, has warned ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the crisis-wracked country.
5 January 2022
US school teacher arrested for administering vaccine to student
A New York school teacher with no formal medical qualification has been arrested for allegedly giving a Covid vaccine to a student.
5 January 2022
The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off: Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted to "piss off" the non-vaccinated, in a slangy, cutting remark that prompted howls of condemnation from opposition rivals less than 4 months before the next presidential election.
5 January 2022
Swedish king, queen tests Covid positive even after taking booster shot
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have tested positive for Covid-19, the palace said in a statement on Tuesday, amid rising infections in the Nordic nation driven by the new Omicron variant of the virus.
4 January 2022
22nd Commonwealth Games: Queen’s Baton to reach Dhaka from Sri Lanka tomorrow
The Queen’s Baton for the 22nd Commonwealth Games, scheduled for July 28 to August 8 in Birmingham, England will arrive in the capital on Thursday on a five-day tour in Bangladesh.
4 January 2022
‘No one can win nuke war’
China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.
4 January 2022
Try Trump or face revenge
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi vowed revenge against Donald Trump unless the former US president is tried over the killing of Qassem Soleimani, as Tehran marked two years since the revered commander’s death.
4 January 2022
NY subpoenas Trump, children in fraud probe
New York’s top justice official has subpoenaed ex-president Donald Trump, his son Don Jr. and daughter Ivanka in her investigation into the family’s business dealings, a court filing showed Monday.
4 January 2022
Haiti PM survives assassination attempt
Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country’s independence, his office said in a statement.
4 January 2022
Biden, Trump to address divided US
A divided nation will experience an ominous split-screen moment Thursday when President Joe Biden uses the anniversary of the January 6 attack on Congress to warn of threats to US democracy and Donald Trump goes live with his conspiracy theories.
4 January 2022