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Omicron overwhelms hospitals in early hit cities across US Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, US, January 4, 2022. (Reuters photo)
The Omicron variant has overwhelmed hospitals in early hit cities across the United States,... |
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Freedom, freedom: Anti-vaccine protesters rally across Europe File photo of anti-vaccination protests in The Netherlands (Photo by AFP)
Protests against COVID-19 vaccine requirements have gathered momentum across western Europe with large demonstrations taking place in France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria, among other countries.
More than 100,000 protesters... |
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Djokovic wins Australia visa case, judge orders his release This screen grab taken from AFPTV shows a person believed to be Serbias tennis champion Novak Djokovic (R) in a car leaving the immigration detention centre where he has been staying in Melbourne, on January 10, 2022. (Via AFP)
World number one Novak Djokovic won a stunning victory Monday over the... |
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Rights group voices concern over enforced disappearance under MBS in Saudi Arabia A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency shows Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attending the annual shura council meeting, a top advisory body, in the capital Riyadh on December 30, 2021. (Via AFP)
A human rights group has voiced concern over the unknown fate of dozens of victims of enforced... |
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Fire in NYC building leaves 19 people dead, including nine children Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP photo)
Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured in an apartment fire in the Bronx in New York on Sunday, one of the worst fire... |
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NATO prepared for the worst amid tensions with Russia, says alliance chief NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaking to media in this file photo. (AFP Photo)
NATO has warned Moscow to brace for conflict with the US-led military alliance if it does not abandon its "belligerent foreign policy" and cooperate with the West amid soaring tensions.
In an interview published... |
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Taliban stuck banners across Kabul to recommend hijab for women After recommending drivers across Afghanistan not to seat women who are not observing hijab, the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice stuck banners on walls and trees across Kabul recommending women to wear hijab.
The placards are first seen across the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday,... |
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Passport Issuance will resume soon in Kabul Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said that passport issuance in Kabul that has been stopped now for 17 days is supposed to be resumed soon after technical issues get resolved.
Issuance of Passport stopped in Kabul on 23rd December after a suicide bomber was shot dead at the gate of... |
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Amir Khan Motaqi meets Ahmad Masoud and Ismail Khan in Iran Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid in a Twitter post said that the Afghan delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi met with Ahmad Masoud and Ismail Khan.
Zabiullah Mujahid said that Masoud and Khan were... |
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Baby lost in Kabul airlift reunited with family Sohail Ahmadi was just two months old when he got separated from his parents during last Augusts U.S.-led evacuation of Kabul airport.
At last he has been found and has been reunited with his Afghan family, which hopes he can be with his parents in the United States soon.
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Fire tears through Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, leaves thousands homeless Fire breaks out at the Balukhali rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh, on January 9, 2022. (Photo by Reuters)
Thousands of people have been left homeless after a fire swept through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh.
Police said on Sunday that the blaze started... |
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German SPD official defends pro-Nord Stream 2 policy In this file photo taken on September 07, 2020 a road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, north eastern Germany. (Photo by AFP)
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring Russian gas to Germany should not be mixed up with political and human rights... |
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One man killed as Sudan security forces attack thousands of anti-coup protesters Sudanese protesters walk past burning tires as they rally to protest against the October 2021 military coup, in the capital Khartoum, on January 9, 2022. (Photo by AFP)
At least one man was shot dead after Sudans security forces attacked thousands of anti-coup protesters with tear gas in the African... |
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Al-Quds church leader: Israeli extremists threaten Christian presence in city Greek Orthodox Patriarch of al-Quds Theophilos III arrives at the Church of the Nativity to celebrate Christmas according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar, in Bethlehem in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on January 6, 2022. (Photo by Reuters)
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the occupied al-Quds says... |
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Iraqi lawmakers elect Mohammed al-Halbousi as speaker in new parliaments first meeting Iraqs newly-elected lawmakers attend the first parliament session, in capital Baghdad, Iraq, on January 9, 2022. (Photo by Iraqi Parliament Media Office)
Iraqi legislators have elected Mohammed al-Halbousi as their speaker during the newly elected parliaments first session in what seen as the first... |
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Millions of Afghan Children At Risk: Save the Children Save the Children expressed grave concerns over the humanitarian crisis affecting Afghan children, saying the cold weather has greatly increased problems for the young in Afghanistan.
Save the Children said that millions are hungry, out of school, displaced and face the threat of cold weather. They... |
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Kazakhstan says situation stabilized, president firmly in charge after deadly unrest over fuel price A serviceman patrols a street in central Almaty, Kazakhstan, on January 8, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over fuel price hikes. (Photo by AFP)
Authorities in Kazakhstan say the situation has been stabilized and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is firmly in charge after a week-long... |
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Afghanistans embassy to act within limits of 1961 Vienna Convention: Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh responds to questions during a press conference in Tehran on December 20, 2021. (File photo by Fars news agency)
Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman has reacted to certain reports about future diplomatic activities of Afghanistans embassy in Tehran,... |
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Detention of Professor Faizullah Jalal Sparks Reactions The detention of Faizullah Jalal, a university professor, has drawn reactions from inside Afghanistan and beyond. The Islamic Emirate officials said that Faizullah Jalal was arrested over statements he made on social media which were against the current government and which spread bigotry.
"He was... |
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UN Official: Dialogue With Islamic Emirate Important Filippo Grandi, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, told the Washington Post that it is important to maintain dialogue with the Islamic Emirate, saying that this will ensure that Afghanistan is "viable."
"But in the end, in the end, it is important to maintain that dialogue with the Taliban,... |
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Afghanistans FM meets Iranian counterpart in Tehran Afghan delegation led by acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Amir Khan Motaqi met with Irans Foreign Minister Hussain Amir Abdulahian in Tehran on Sunday, January 9, 2022.
IEA in a statement said that delegations of both countries discussed bilateral economic, Political... |
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Disappointed by US signals, Russia rules out concession in talks over Ukraine Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (File photo by AFP)
Russias deputy foreign minister says Moscow is "disappointed" by signals from Washington and Brussels demanding unilateral concessions from the Russian side ahead of talks intended to ease tensions over Ukraine.
Sergei Ryabkov was... |
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UK still ready to trigger Article 16 in EU-Northern Ireland row: Truss British foreign minister Liz Truss (File photo)
The United Kingdom is ready to take unilateral action that would suspend customs checks on goods moving to Northern Ireland, foreign minister Liz Truss said ahead of talks with the European Union.
Truss is due to hold talks with EU Vice President Maros... |
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Turkmenistan plans to extinguish vast gas crater fire dubbed Gateway to hell Turkmenistans leader has ordered experts to find a way to finally extinguish a massive five-decade-old fire in a giant natural gas crater in the Central Asian country, dubbed the "Gateway to Hell."
Citing environmental and economic concerns, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov appeared on state... |
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Brazil cliff collapse kills at least seven+Video Firefighters of Minas Gerais state search for victims after a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall in Capitolio, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil January 8, 2022.
At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on... |
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PM Johnson sorrows over terrible toll as UK tops 150,000 COVID deaths Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference to update the nation on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the Downing Street briefing room in central London on January 4, 2022. (Photo by AFP)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed sorrow over the "terrible... |
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Armed gangs kill 200 people in northwest Nigeria after military strikes A member of security forces stands guard outside a court in the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria. (Photo by Reuters)
Armed criminal gangs have killed at least 200 people in attacks on villages in northwest Nigeria this week as clashes between the gunmen and the African countrys military forces continue... |
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Saudi princess, daughter released after almost 3 years in jail Saudi Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Saudi authorities have released Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a businesswoman and an outspoken human rights advocate, and her daughter, who had been detained without charge for nearly three years.
A legal adviser to Princess... |
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Chinese immigrant attacked in NYC dies months later Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec. 31. (Photo via The Independent)
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April in East Harlem, New York City, has died of his injuries, police said Saturday.
Yao Pan Ma was pushing a grocery cart full of bottles and cans that he had collected on April 23 when... |
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US says it has no plans to deploy missiles in Ukraine ahead of Russia talks Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the briefing room of the State Department in Washington, D.C., Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Photo by AP)
Senior Biden administration officials have said the US has no plans to deploy missiles in Ukraine and thus hopes to achieve progress in the upcoming talks... |
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