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“Anyone living in the country illegally must go back,” he said. 04:04Pakistani vocational centre helps Afghan women rebuild lives through free trainingPakistani vocational centre helps Afghan women rebuild lives through free trainingZabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman for the Taliban government, said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s plans are “unacceptable” and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes.“Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called ‘RTS, S,’” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom ...

ISTANBULHere’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Monday, including a terror attack in Türkiye’s capital Ankara, a worldwide condemnation of the attack and destruction of PKK terror targets in northern Iraq.TOP STORIESTwo police officers were injured when one of the two terrorists on Sunday ...

WHO’s polio director in the Eastern Mediterranean warned the new law could backfire. “Coercion is counterproductive,” Dr Hamid Jafari said.He said health workers have typically succeeded in raising immunisation rates in vaccine-hesitant areas by figuring out the reasons for people’s refusal and addressing those concerns, like bringing in a ...

Akshay Naheta, a former SoftBank Group executive who steered some of the firm’s biggest deals, is launching a new company in Abu Dhabi focusing on stablecoin technology.The 42-year-old financier has set up DTR within the emirate’s international financial free zone and will partner on the project with Hong Kong-based ...

China’s next lunar mission – Chang’e 6 – remains on schedule to launch next year on a mission that will see the lander return samples from the far side of the moon to Earth, while hauling payloads from the European Space Agency and Pakistan.The China National Space Administration (CNSA) ...

Feinstein’s political career was shaped by guns. She became San Francisco’s mayor in 1978 upon the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.Senator Dianne Feinstein leaves a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in May. Photo: via TNSFeinstein was president of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors when ...

A tit-for-tat dismissal of diplomats ensued, complicating US-led efforts to build a united bloc of allies and partners in a deeply polarised geopolitical landscape.Manjari Chatterjee Miller of the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington, said that if Trudeau “releases credible evidence for his allegations, the assassination ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the world was plunging into a new nuclear arms race and warned of the shadow of “annihilation” hanging over the world.With nuclear-armed nations expanding and modernising their arsenals, the UN chief called for a revitalised push to reduce and eventually ...

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on hypersonic missiles. Notably, the US, China and Russia are all pursuing hypersonic missile technology that can evade enemy air defences and strike well-protected targets. At the same time, there are concerns about the effectiveness of such missiles after Ukraine ...