International

Australian officials say they will try to guide a humpback whale out of a crocodile-infested river in the Northern Territory after it got lost and ended up 30km (18.5 miles) inland. The whale and others were on an annual sea…
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LONDON: British police said counter-terrorism officers arrested a man on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to cause an explosion over a package sent to an address in north London earlier this week. Police said the man, in his 20s, had…
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PORTLAND: An unprecedented spate of deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Friday even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go on the offensive against the blazes.…
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US hospitals have turned down about a third of their allocated supplies of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir since July as the need for the costly antiviral wanes, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Friday. Some…
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Thursday the deadline set for Chinese company ByteDance to sell its popular short-video app TikTok’s U.S. assets would not be extended. “It’ll either be closed up or they’ll sell it,” Trump told…
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Dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires burned through forests and towns in U.S. West Coast states on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes, killing at least nine people and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee, authorities said. Over…
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BERLIN: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has made further progress in his recovery after what Germany said was poisoning with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, and is able to speak again, Der Spiegel magazine reported on…
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LONDON: AstraZeneca has paused global trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness in a participant, denting the British drugmaker’s shares on Wednesday as the move was seen as dimming prospects for an early…
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A man shot his mother dead following arguments about petty issues in Florida. The incident occurred on Sunday when the man, identified as 29-year-old Luis Pages, hysterically called police telling them that he shot and killed his mother,…
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LONDON: Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1 billion people face being displaced by 2050, according to a new analysis of global ecological threats.…
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