Dhaka kickstarts drive to vaccinate 34 million children ‘despite pandemic’
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1607795495736307600 Sat, 2020-12-12 20:51 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s government on Saturday launched a $50 million national campaign to vaccinate millions of children...
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Spike in number of female addicts lifts veil on Afghanistan’s drug war
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1607793780476133800 Sat, 2020-12-12 20:21 KABUL: At first, Alina Yaqoobi says she found it “very difficult” to cope with aggressive drug...
Trump-backed Texas bid to upend results swiftly ended
Sat, 2020-12-12 23:26 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw...
Family pressure, starvation forces Abu Sayyaf duo to surrender in Philippines
Author: Sat, 2020-12-12 21:17 MANILA: Two senior Abu Sayyaf (ASG) operatives and 13 followers of the Daesh-linked militant group in the southern Philippines surrendered...
Armenians, Azerbaijan trade blame over breach of Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal
Author: By AVET DEMOURIAN | AP ID: 1607798732316639500 Sat, 2020-12-12 18:31 YEREVAN: Armenian officials and Azerbaijan on Saturday accused each other of breaching a...
Vaccine refusal in Brazil grows to 22%, most reject Chinese shot: poll
Author: Reuters ID: 1607802118466998600 Sat, 2020-12-12 23:24 RIO DE JANEIRO: The share of Brazilians unwilling to take any COVID-19 vaccine grew to 22% this...
Trump loses Wisconsin case while arguing another one
Author: By SCOTT BAUER | AP ID: 1607805514017339900 Sat, 2020-12-12 23:29 MADISON, Wisconsin: President Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney...
Hard-line Indonesian cleric held on suspicion he broke coronavirus restrictions
Author: Reuters ID: 1607802118526998800 Sat, 2020-12-12 23:14 JAKARTA: Indonesian police arrested firebrand Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab on Saturday on suspicion of breaching coronavirus restrictions...
One of the largest icebergs could endanger an island’s wildlife
The iceberg A68a is currently travelling towards the South Georgia island. Experts fear it could devastate the island’s wildlife population if the iceberg reaches...
Navy boats on standby to protect UK waters in case of no-deal Brexit
The UK will have “a range of robust enforcement measures” at the end of the Brexit transition period, including “numerous” offshore patrol vessels available...
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