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UK PM faces new ‘lockdown party’ hangover

London, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday faced a furious backlash over new claims of a breach of coronavirus restrictions by his team on top of a slew of recent scandals. London’s Metropolitan Police said they were in contact with the Cabinet […]

UK police review 1969 Murdoch-linked kidnap murder

London, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):London police said Tuesday they were reviewing new information in the 1969 kidnap-murder of Muriel McKay, who was mistaken for media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s wife, and whose body had never been found. The Metropolitan Police said McKay’s family had contacted them with […]

UN’s Guterres ‘saddened’ by reports of deadly strike in Tigray: spokesman

New York, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):UN chief Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned” over reports of a deadly airstrike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, his spokesman said Monday, in the international body’s first comment on an attack which rebels said left 56 people dead. The Tigray People’s Liberation […]

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile

North Korea-January 11 (Online): North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile from land towards the East Sea on Tuesday. In a statement, South Korea’s military said it detected a suspected ballistic missile. The launch was also reported by Japan’s coast guard saying the North had […]

UN chief expresses sympathies with Murree tragedy victims

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday expressed his condolences on the death of 23 people after a deadly snowstorm trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Pakistan’s hill station of Murree. “As in any incident and tragic […]

11 crew held on ship hijacked by Yemen rebels: UAE

United Nations, United States, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):A ship hijacked by Yemeni rebels in the Red Sea has 11 crew on board from five countries, the United Arab Emirates told the United Nations Security Council president on Monday. Seven of the crew are Indian and the […]

Teen arrested in Sweden after two injured in school knife attack

Stockholm, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):A teenage boy was arrested in southern Sweden on Monday after wounding a student and a teacher with a knife, police said, with media reporting the suspect had links to a similar attack in August. Police were alerted to the school in […]

Malaysian villager killed in tiger attack

Kuala Lumpur, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):An indigenous Malaysian villager has been killed in a tiger attack, with government rangers shooting dead the critically endangered creature after it also charged them, authorities said. The 59-year-old victim, Anek Along, was attacked Friday near the town of Gua Musang […]

Kazakh leader says unrest was ‘attempted coup d’etat’

Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan 10 (AFP/APP):Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday characterised days of historic unrest in his Central Asian country as a coup attempt and vowed his security services would never shoot peaceful protesters. “Armed militants who were waiting in the wings joined the protests. […]

Women’s camel beauty contest makes debut in Saudi

Rumah, Saudi Arabia, Jan 9 (AFP/APP): Saudi women, in a first for the conservative kingdom, have paraded their camels in a beauty pageant for the prized “ships of the desert”. “I hope today to reach a certain social standing, inshallah (God willing),” said Lamia al-Rashidi, […]

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