The pilgrims have to show they are vaccinated using the Tawakkalna app to enter the Grand Mosque.-AFPRIYADH: Saudi Arabia has revised COVID-19 guidelines for the pilgrims coming to the kingdom to perform Umrah, Radio Pakistan reported Tuesday. According to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, all Umrah pilgrims must submit a negative PCR test…
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready for compromise and would look at proposals put forward by French leader Emmanuel Macron in talks on Monday, while still blaming the West for raising tensions over Ukraine.Emerging from nearly five hours of talks in the Kremlin, the two leaders voiced hope that a solution could…
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WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden made a categorical vow Monday at a meeting with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz to shut down the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe if Moscow launches an invasion of Ukraine.Scholz, however, remained more ambiguous, promising only that he was “united” with Biden. Biden’s declaration was his…
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Photo: AFP/file JERUSALEM: Israel´s domestic spying scandal widened Monday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett vowing government action following new reports that police illegally used the Pegasus malware to hack phones of dozens of prominent figures.The latest bombshell from business daily Calcalist alleged that Pegasus was used against a son of former…
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President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office, August 27, 2021. -File photoWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is looking forward to a visit to Israel later this year, he told Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a phone call between the two leaders on Sunday, according to a White…
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Rescue workers working on the site to pull out the fallen boy out of the well. Photo: AFPMoroccan emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and beyond.”Following the tragic accident which cost the…
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— AFP/FileWASHINGTON: The US death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 900,000 on Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker.The toll had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago. New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of…
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Officials at the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna in December 2021. AFPWASHINGTON: The US State Department is waiving sanctions on Iran’s civilian nuclear program in a technical step necessary to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, a senior official said Friday.The resumption of the waiver, ended by the Donald Trump administration in 2020, “would be…
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All seven people onboard the plane were killed as tourist plane crashed near Peru’s Nazca lines. AgenciesLIMA: Five tourists and two crew died Friday when their plane crashed on a trip to view Peru’s famous Nazca lines, the transport ministry said.The Cessna 207 single-engine plane belonging to the Aerosantos tourism company came down shortly after…
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Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend to patients inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a coronavirus ward in New Delhi. — AFP/FileNEW DELHI: India’s official death toll from COVID-19 passed 500,000 on Friday, although many experts believe the real figure is likely much higher.The daily update from the country’s federal health ministry…
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