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Philippines extends travel ban for 10 countries over Delta concerns
The Times of India 13 Aug 2021
MANILA. The Philippines will extend a ban on travellers from India and nine other countries to the end of August because of concerns posed by the highly contagious Delta variant of the Coronavirus, the presidential spokesperson said on Friday ... 16 to Aug. 31, presidential spokesperson, Harry Roque, said in a statement ... Start a Conversation. .
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America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes
New York Times 11 Aug 2021photo: AP / Indian Space Research Organization
Indian launch attempt of earth observation satellite fails
Dawn 12 Aug 2021
An Indian rocket failed in its attempt on Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters ... "Performance of first and second stages was normal. However, cryogenic upper stage ignition did not happen due to a technical anomaly ... It will fall back to Earth sometime soon ... .
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Canada needs US to break impasse in row with China: Experts
Straits Times 12 Aug 2021
MONTREAL (AFP) - After more than 2� years of diplomatic squabbling, Canada and China saw their relations sink to a new low this week after two Canadian citizens were handed stiff sentences by Chinese courts - one of them a death sentence ... Experts say only US intervention will break the "impasse" ... The arrest that started it all ... Chinese 'reprisals' ... �.
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Hamas rocket fire a war crime, Human Rights Watch says
BBC News 12 Aug 2021
The firing of rockets at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza during the conflict in May amounted to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The attacks "flagrantly violated" the laws of war, the campaign group said following an investigation. More than 4,360 unguided rockets and mortars were fired, Israel says, killing 13 people there ... .
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Covid blame game exposed: China caught inventing fake Swiss biologist
NewstalkZB 13 Aug 2021
Social media accounts purporting to be a Swiss biologist have reportedly been fabricated by Chinese media to bolster a theory that the US pressured the World Health Organisation to investigate the origin of Covid-19 ... The Embassy of Switzerland has since revealed that a person by such a name does not exist, and "more likely that this is a fake news".
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Pakistani forces clash with Afghan protesters at Chaman border crossing
Dawn 13 Aug 2021
QUETTA. Security personnel on Thursday clashed with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan’s side of a commercially vital border crossing with Afghanistan after its closure by the Taliban, officials said ... Protesters carried his body to a local Pakistani government office demanding the border be reopened ... No injuries were reported ... .
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Peru's Prosecutors Open Probe Into Prime Minister on Suspicion of Terrorism
Urdu Point 12 Aug 2021photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
Afghan officials: 3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban
The Wichita Eagle 11 Aug 2021photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
Australia chides China over journalist's yearlong detention
ABC News 13 Aug 2021
The Australian government says it remains seriously concerned about the welfare of a Chinese-born Australian journalist a year after she was first detained in China ... .
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Europe needs to prepare for temperatures of 50C in future, Met Office warns
The Independent 13 Aug 2021
Europe needs to brace itself for further record-breaking temperatures of 50C and higher, weather experts at the Met Office have warned. On Wednesday the mercury hit 48.8C in Syracuse, Italy, which if confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, will break the previous highest of 48.0°C in Athens in 1977 ... Professor Stott said ... .
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Census shows US is diversifying, white population shrinking
India TV 13 Aug 2021
The U.S. became more diverse and more urban over the past decade, and the non-Hispanic white population dropped for the first time on record, the Census Bureau reported Thursday as it released a trove of demographic data that will be used to redraw the nation’s political maps ... “The U.S ... They now account for 10% of the U.S. population ... Also Read ... ....
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Ex K-pop star Seungri ‘jailed over sex and gambling scandal’
The Guardian 12 Aug 2021
Former Big Bang singer reportedly convicted of arranging sex services for potential business investors A military court jailed the disgraced former K-pop star Seungri for three years on Thursday for arranging sex services and other charges stemming from a sex and gambling scandal, according to reports ... Another said ... .
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Zambians vote in presidential election seen as too close to call
Metro USA 12 Aug 2021
LUSAKA (Reuters) -Zambians started voting on Thursday in an election showdown between President Edgar Lungu and main opposition rival Hakainde Hichilema that looks too tight to call and comes amid mounting debt and a flagging economy. Polls opened at 6 a.m ... The electoral agency says it expects to declare a winner within 72 hours after polls close ... .
