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UAE condemns Houthi drone attack targeting school in Saudi Arabia’s Asir Politics

UAE condemns Houthi drone attack targeting school in Saudi Arabia’s Asir

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UAE condemns Houthi drone attack targeting school in Saudi Arabia’s Asir The United Arab Emirates strongly condemned and denounced the “Iran-backed Houthi terrorist militias’ targeting of a school” in Saudi Arabia’s Asir with an explosive-laden drone, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported Sunday. the Arab Parliament called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop these systematic violations that aim to destabilize the security and stability in the region, SPA said. Civil defense authorities…

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Women can register for Hajj with other women without male guardian: Saudi ministry World News

Women can register for Hajj with other women without male guardian: Saudi ministry

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Women will be allowed to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage without a mahram (male guardian) this year, as long as they travel with other women, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced on Sunday. Participants in the Hajj must be between the ages of 18 to 65, be vaccinated against or recovered from the novel coronavirus, be free of chronic illness and be residents or citizens of Saudi Arabia who have not performed…

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Pro-Palestine Marches Fill London’s Streets amid G7 Summit Palestine

Pro-Palestine Marches Fill London’s Streets amid G7 Summit

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Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters gathered in front of the government headquarters in London Saturday, in solidarity with the Palestinian people to call for an end of the Israeli occupation and apartheid in occupied Palestine. The demonstrators then organized a march within the so-called “G7 Resistance Action Day for International Justice.” Organizers say the G7 includes the largest suppliers of weapons and military technology that strengthen the Israeli Occupation oppressive regime. The protesters held placards and…

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Iraqi oil minister expects oil prices at - in H2 Business

Iraqi oil minister expects oil prices at $68-$75 in H2

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Iraq’s oil minister stated on Saturday that he expects oil costs to vary between $68 and $75 per barrel in the course of the second half of this 12 months if OPEC abides by set manufacturing output to guard markets. Ihsan Abdul Jabbar also told journalists “there are new projects in which there is a common interest” between Exxon Mobil and Iraq. “We expect that Exxon Mobil will remain in a certain part of Iraq…

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Muslim victims of truck attack given farewell with coffins draped in Canadian flags World News

Muslim victims of truck attack given farewell with coffins draped in Canadian flags

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Several hundred mourners joined a public funeral service on Saturday to bid farewell to a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man in a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police said was driven by hate. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when Nathaniel Veltman, 20, ran into them while they were out for an evening walk near their home in London, Ontario. A fifth family member, a…

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Long queues witnessed in Beirut petrol stations amid fuel crisis World News

Long queues witnessed in Beirut petrol stations amid fuel crisis

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Friday, the Lebanese capital, Beirut, witnessed long queues of vehicles stretch from its petrol stations down busy streets as the crisis-hit country faces severe fuel shortages. Payment delays are also keeping urgent oil stocks on offshore tankers, meaning that many gas stations are facing critical supply shortages. However, Fadi Abu Shakra, representative of the union for fuel distributors and gas stations in Lebanon, said that the confusion and fear surrounding gas supply was “unjustified.” He…

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8 dead, 3 injured in China factory’s chemical leak World News

8 dead, 3 injured in China factory’s chemical leak

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Eight people died and three others were injured when a toxic chemical leaked Saturday at a plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang, authorities said. The leak happened as workers were unloading a shipment of methyl formate from a vehicle at a chemical handling facility. An investigation is underway, according to the China National Emergency Broadcasting. Methyl formate is used in a variety of chemical processes and as an insecticide. It can cause skin…

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Start-up launches India’s first COVID-19 home test kit Business

Start-up launches India’s first COVID-19 home test kit

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Mylab Discovery Solutions develops India’s first self-use rapid test for Covid19. In what can be a paradigm shift in the way Indians test themselves for Covid-19, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a self-use rapid antigen test (RAT) kit developed by Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions. CoviSelf would be the country’s first self-use kit for testing at home that will give results in 15 minutes and would cost Rs 250. The company…

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Brisbane set to be named 2032 Olympics host in July World News

Brisbane set to be named 2032 Olympics host in July

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Brisbane is set to be officially named host of the 2032 Olympics when the IOC meets in Tokyo next month. IOC president Thomas Bach said after an executive board meeting Thursday that Australia’s third-biggest city can be awarded hosting rights as the only candidate proposed at a July 21 meeting in Tokyo. The 2032 decision will be handed down by a committee of 100 IOC delegates on July 21, two days ahead of the…

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