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Lt Governor chairs a high-level meeting to review Covid-19 status, Omicron, vaccination for 15-18 age group & preparedness of health infrastructure across J&K

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Covid Containment Measures Lt Governor chairs a high-level meeting to review Covid-19 status, Omicron, vaccination for 15-18 age group & preparedness of health infrastructure across J&K Issue directions to ensure functioning of oxygen plants, availability of requisite medicines, audit of ICU and Oxygen supported beds across all hospitals […]

Farewell to ‘our national conscience’ at funeral of South Africa’s Tutu

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Summary Anti-apartheid hero won Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 Lauded by both Black and white South Africans ‘A giant among us, morally and spiritually’ Cathedral illuminated in purple, colour of Tutu’s robes CAPE TOWN, Jan 1 (Reuters) – President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as […]

Rally in Baghdad on anniversary of Iranian general’s death

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BAGHDAD — Chanting anti-American slogans, hundreds of people rallied in the Iraqi capital Saturday to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. The crowd called for the expulsion of remaining American forces from […]

Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99

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LOS ANGELES — Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99. White’s death was confirmed […]

Requiem praise for South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was remembered at his funeral Saturday for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people. “When we were in the dark, he brought light,” […]

Violence against women insults God, pope says in New Year’s message

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VATICAN CITY, Jan 1 – Pope Francis used his New Year’s message on Saturday to issue a clarion call for an end to violence against women, saying it was insulting to God. Francis, 85, celebrated a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church […]

North Korea’s Kim talks food not nukes for 2022

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SEOUL, Jan 1 – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States, according to summaries by state media on Saturday. North Korea’s main […]

Omicron’s New Year’s cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022

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PARIS — Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year’s Eve, which used […]

A Myanmar family flees to India with no plans to return soon

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FARKAWN, India, Dec 31 – For more than a decade, Mah Tial said she ran a small store in Thantlang, a town in northwest Myanmar, making enough money to send her four children to school and see her eldest daughter secure a coveted government job. On Sept. 8, […]

Russia test-fires new hypersonic Tsirkon missiles from frigate, submarine

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MOSCOW, Dec 31 – Russia test-fired around 10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles from a frigate and two more from a submarine, Interfax news agency said on Friday citing northern fleet. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the weapon as part of a new generation of unrivalled […]

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