Washington: US President Joe Biden, America’s second Catholic president, and his wife Jill will have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, the White House announced Thursday. Biden’s Vatican visit will come ahead of his participation in the G20 summit in Rome on October 30-31. From Italy, he is scheduled to …
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Geneva: Tuberculosis 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 erased years of progress toward tackling the curable disease, which affects millions of people worldwide. “This is alarming news …
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Moscow: A Russian Soyuz rocket on Thursday blasted into space carrying 36 new satellites from British operator OneWeb, which aims to provide broadband internet everywhere in the world. The rocket, operated by Europe’s Arianespace, took off at 0940 GMT from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, broadcast live by the country’s Roscosmos space agency. …
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Taiwan: An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. The blaze broke out in the 13-storey, mixed-use building in the small hours of Thursday morning, according to officials, raging through multiple floors before firefighters finally got it …
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Seoul: A North Korean parachutist has lit up social media with his shiny blue jumpsuit as he posed with ranks of olive-green clad military men and leader Kim Jong Un after taking a jump at the opening ceremony of a defence exhibition. “Rocket Man”, “Captain DPRK” and “Human Cannonball” were some of the names admiring …
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Tokyo, Japan: North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court on Thursday over a repatriation programme they describe as “state kidnapping”. The unusual case is a bid to hold Pyongyang responsible for a scheme that saw more than 90,000 people move to North Korea from Japan between 1959 and 1984. The …
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LA PALMA, Spain: Several emaciated dogs lie curled up in and around a walled, ash-covered yard cut off by volcanic lava in the mountainous area of Todoque on the Spanish island of La Palma, until a drone appears in the sky to drop packages with food and water. They lift their heads to look and …
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San Francisco, United States: Facebook unveiled fresh protections Wednesday against online attacks on journalists, activists and celebrities as the social media giant battles a crisis over its platforms’ potential harms. The company has faced a storm of criticism and a a Senate panel hearing since a whistleblower leaked internal studies showing Facebook knew its sites …
Oslo, Norway: A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people and wounded others in southeastern Norway on Wednesday, police said, adding that they had arrested the suspect. The motive for the attack, which took place in several locations in the town centre of Kongsberg, was not yet known, but police said terrorism …
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Washington: Washington plans to press ahead with its plan to reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem as part of efforts to deepen ties with Palestinians, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday following a meeting with his Israeli and United Arab Emirates counterparts. “We’ll be moving forward with the process of opening a …
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