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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 ...

Pakistan Cricket Board said they came under intense pressure on whether to send its team for the England tour or not after 10 players tested positive for Covid-19 but eventually went ahead with the tour to ensure resumption of the game amid the pandemic. Last month, 10 players had ...

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 ...

“Viv is the best batsman I have seen against anything and everything. He never looked intimidated. Richard Hadlee in New Zealand, Dennis Lillee in Australia, Abdul Qadir in Pakistan, Bishan Bedi in India. Ian Botham in England. He got runs against anybody and everybody.”That was Michael Holding, one of ...

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 ...

A mandatory 14-day quarantine period in Adelaide before the start of India’s marquee Test series against Australia might prompt the BCCI to send a jumbo squad much like the West Indies and Pakistan in England, feels former chairman of selectors MSK Prasad. According to Prasad, it might be a ...

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 ...