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It’s ‘high’ time: UAE eases drug laws ...

Dubai:: The United Arab Emirates has eased some of its harsh drug laws, relaxing penalties for travelers who arrive in the country with products co Read more...

Borders slam shut, world braces for surge ...

Countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new Omicron variant at bay Monday, even as more cases of the mutant co Read more...

Vienna talks resume, curbs or enrichment? ...

Vienna: Negotiators in Vienna resumed talks Monday over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress mu Read more...

‘Colossal risk’ of Covid surge in China...

Beijing: China is expected to continue its much-criticised Zero COVID policy, shutting the country to most of the world as a new study has warned Read more...

Omicron ignites global fears, ‘vaccines still likely ...

Nearly two years since the start of the pandemic that has claimed more than 5 million lives  around the world, countries are on high alert Read more...

US expels Russian diplomats

Moscow: Russian Ambassador to the United States said that 27 more Russian diplomats and their families were expelled from the United States and wo Read more...

2 Pakistan soldiers killed on Afghan border...

Peshawar: Unidentified militants attacked a security check post in Pak’s restive North Waziristan district near the Afghan border, killing Read more...

Taliban: Don’t blame us for hunger

Kabul: Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister defended the group’s rule in a public address Saturday, saying it was not to blame for a w Read more...

Pak madrassa connected to Taliban, Haqqani network...

Peshawar: Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa, one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest seminaries and dubbed as a university of jihad’ by its c Read more...

Russia-backed coup planned next week: Ukraine prez...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that his country’s intelligence service has uncovered plans for a Russia-backed c Read more...