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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 ...

BERLIN, Germany: A court in Hamburg on Thursday convicted a 93-year old German man of helping to murder 5,232 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two and handed him a suspended two-year sentence.In one of the last cases against Nazi-era crimes, Bruno ...

KARACHI: The frequent culling of dogs in Pakistan has angered both animal rights activists and citizens, but officials in Sindh province say it is necessary because packs of wild strays pose a threat to residents, with up to 5,000 people dying of rabies every year. However, experts aren’t convinced. Last ...

DUBAI: Music streaming platform Spotify has removed an Islamophobic song aimed at Pakistani-British singer Zayn Malik after his fans campaigned for its removal.  The song, which the former One Direction star is the subject of, was recorded by parody artists Una Kompton in 2017. The track, called “Zayn Did ...

ISLAMABAD: In one of the most significant shake-ups in years, the Taliban put the son of the movement’s feared founder in charge of its military wing and added powerful figures to its negotiating team ahead of expected talks aimed at ending Afghanistan’s decades of war, Taliban officials say.As head ...