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RABAT: Morocco will stop people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from midnight to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, the interior and health Ministries said on Sunday.The cities to be locked down include the economic powerhouse of Casablanca as well as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez and Meknes.The ...

Author: By EMILY SCHMALL | APID: 1595767728573598000Sun, 2020-07-26 09:40 NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next month for a Hindu temple on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th century mosque was torn down by Hindu hard-liners in 1992, according to the trust ...

LAHORE: Afghanistan’s government said on Saturday that there remained an opportunity for peace in the war-ravaged country, but that the Taliban needed to shun violence first to engage in direct talks with Kabul. “There is an opportunity for peace, provided that the Taliban abandon violence and agree to direct ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts Friday of 16 allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a Supreme Court judge ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an alleged disinformation campaign.Tension has been soaring between the far-right leader and the court, which is investigating ...

JEDDAH: Global trade has been hit by new and accumulated import restrictions just as economies need to rebuild in the COVID-19 crisis, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a mid-year report on Friday. But some export constraints imposed on surgical masks, medicines and medical equipment early in the ...

Author: Reutersarticle author: ReutersID: 1595607315573751900Fri, 2020-07-24 15:56 ISLAMABAD: A 103-year-old man has recovered from COVID-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak health care system, his relatives and doctors said. Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident ...

ISLAMABAD: A 103-year-old man has recovered from COVID-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak health care system, his relatives and doctors said.Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the ...

Author: AFPID: 1595573361621953000Fri, 2020-07-24 06:19 NEW DELHI: India’s death toll from the coronavirus overtook France’s on Friday with 30,601 fatalities and nearly 50,000 new cases overnight, official data showed. The death toll is the sixth-biggest behind the US, Brazil, Britain, Mexico and Italy, according to an AFP tally. It has the ...

Author: By ABDUL SATTAR | AParticle author: APID: 1595510523297139400Thu, 2020-07-23 12:41 QUETTA: A 200-year-old Sikh temple that served as a school for Muslim girls for seven decades was returned to the Sikh community in Quetta, enabling them to worship there for the first time in 73 years, officials said Thursday. The temple ...

Author: Thu, 2020-07-23 01:34 KABUL: Afghanistan’s exports to India have doubled since 2016 with the total value of goods traded reaching $460 million last year. Jan Aqa Naweed, spokesman for the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI), told Arab News: “In total, in 2019, our exports to the world reached ...