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Australia to ease 18-month-old border closure ‘within weeks’

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Sydney, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):Australia will begin to reopen its borders next month, the country’s prime minister said Friday, 18 months after citizens were banned from travelling overseas without permission. Scott Morrison said vaccinated Australians would be able to return home and travel overseas “within weeks” […]

Energy prices send eurozone inflation to highest level since 2008

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Brussels, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):Eurozone consumer prices rose at their fastest pace since 2008 in September as energy costs skyrocketed, official data showed on Friday. Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics agency, said eurozone inflation reached 3.4 percent on an annualised basis, with energy prices increasing by […]

UK butcher shortage fuels fears for Christmas food

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London, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):Visa restrictions could be eased for hundreds of foreign butchers, British media reported on Friday, after industry warnings that a shortage could hit Christmas food supplies. The Times quoted the British Meat Processors Association as saying the sector is short of 15,000 […]

Japan’s Princess Mako to marry after delay and controversy

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Tokyo, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):After years of controversy, Japan’s Princess Mako will marry this month, but she will forego traditional rites and will not take a usual payment given to royal women marrying commoners. “Princess Mako will marry on October 26,” an Imperial Household Agency official […]

Exiled ex-president Saakashvili says back in Georgia

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Tbilisi, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday he had returned from exile to Georgia, despite a looming arrest and ahead of local elections in the Caucasus country gripped by a protracted political crisis. “I risked my life and freedom to be back,” Saakashvili said […]

UN reports ‘unprecedented’ malnutrition in Tigray

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Addis Ababa, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):The UN warned of “unprecedented” malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, in a report published hours after the government sparked outrage by expelling senior UN officials. The latest situation report from the UN’s humanitarian coordination office, […]

PM Imran for exploiting potential of salt, pharmaceutical sectors

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 01 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday directed the authorities concerned to take steps to exploit full potential of exports diversification in salt and pharmaceutical sectors. Chairing a meeting of National Export Development Board, the prime minister said the government was focused on […]

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