April 20, 2024
International

Sadrists are told to leave parliament, but they continue to demonstrate

BAGHDAD: As calls for negotiation between political opponents grow, a senior official from the Iraqi Sadrist movement urged his followers to take their four-day occupation of the parliament outside on Tuesday. A rival Shiite faction’s choice for prime minister incited supporters of influential preacher Moqtada Sadr, whose political bloc in elections in October won the […]

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China summons the US ambassador in response to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

BEIJING: On Tuesday, China summoned the American ambassador to express its displeasure at her “egregious” travel to Taiwan. Pelosi’s travel to the democratic, self-governing island, which China views as a part of its territory, drew “strong complaints” from vice foreign minister Xie Feng. China won’t watch helplessly, according to Xie, who was reported as stating, […]

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China’s population will start to decline by 2025, according to officials

According to officials, China’s population will start to decline by 2025 as people age and family sizes decrease.The country with the largest population in the world has been battling an impending demographic crisis as a result of its rapidly ageing workforce, declining economy, and weakest population growth in decades. Additionally, despite government officials loosening the […]

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India confirms the first case of monkeypox in Asia

Kolkata, India Monkeypox has already claimed the lives of four people in India, the first of whom died on Monday. The young guy was found dead in the southern state of Kerala. Last week, Spain documented two deaths connected to monkeypox, while Brazil reported one. The fatality occurred in India, marking a first for Asia. […]

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Richest and poorest nations in 2022

Finding out a country’s GDP is insufficient to determine its financial situation. The sum of all the commodities and services a nation generates in a year is its gross domestic output. The United States, China, Japan, and Germany have the highest GDPs. However, if GDP was the only metric used to determine wealth, little countries […]

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Two people are killed in California’s biggest wildfire of the year

YREKA: On Monday, hundreds of firefighters were battling a quickly spreading forest fire in northern California that has claimed two lives and compelled thousands of residents to leave their homes. According to CalFire, the McKinney Fire, which has burned across 55,493 acres (22,500 hectares) of the Klamath National Forest near the Oregon border, is the […]

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New Zealand reopens its borders, but it is watchful of visitors

WELLINGTON: After the Covid-based travel restrictions were lifted, New Zealand’s borders were fully reopened on Monday, but it is only anticipated that a trickle of tourists and students will return. Despite having recorded 52,538 coronavirus cases in the past seven days, New Zealand is prepared to resume welcoming tourists. At midnight local time on Sunday, […]

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Biden claims that the US assassinated al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: One of the most sought terrorists in the world and the presumed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, was assassinated by the United States on Monday, according to President Joe Biden. According to Biden, the attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, took place on Saturday. He stated, “I gave […]

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Israeli settlement encircles a Palestinian household

BEIT IJZA: The Gharib family home in the occupied West Bank is encircled by an eight-meter high metal barrier. They need to pass through a gate that Israeli security forces are remotely controlling in order to get there. Since Israel took control of the region in the 1967 Six-Day War, a Jewish settlement has grown […]

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The supporters of Sadr secure a permanent residence in the Iraqi parliament

BAGHDAD: For a second day on Sunday, hundreds of supporters of prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr occupied the country’s parliament to demonstrate political corruption. They rushed the complex on Saturday despite tear gas, water cannons, and sweltering temperatures that reached 47 degrees Celsius after knocking down sizable concrete barricades on motorways leading to Baghdad’s […]

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