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Trump says U.S. operation killed al-Qaida leader in Yemen
Published On: February 7, 2020 12:10 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaida leader who claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors.
China's Xi tells Trump Beijing will defeat coronavirus as doctor's death sparks outcry
Published On: February 7, 2020 11:47 AM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Feb 7: Chinese President Xi Jinping assured U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that China is doing all it can to contain a new corona-virus that has killed almost 640 people, including a doctor who sounded the alarm only to be threatened by police.
Japan finds 41 more cases on ship as virus alarm doctor dies
Published On: February 7, 2020 11:08 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 7: Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a cruise ship that’s been quarantined in Yokohama harbor while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636, including a doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the disease threat.
About 500,000 EU citizens yet to apply for UK residency after Brexit
Published On: February 6, 2020 09:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, Feb 6: An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit.
Algerian leader pardons more than 6,000 prisoners in conciliatory gesture
Published On: February 6, 2020 08:59 PM NPT By: Reuters
ALGIERS, Feb 6: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors.
Israeli-Palestinian violence rises after Trump peace plan
Published On: February 6, 2020 07:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb 6: At least two Palestinians were killed and 15 Israelis were hurt on Thursday in a string of incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where violence has risen after the U.S. announcement of its Middle East peace plan.
China opens new hospitals for virus patients, deaths top 560
Published On: February 6, 2020 07:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 6: China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people’s lives and fueling economic fears.
Modi says Indian Muslims had nothing to fear in new law
Published On: February 6, 2020 06:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Parliament on Thursday that Indian Muslims had nothing to fear from a new citizenship law and accused opposition parties of toeing rival Pakistan’s propaganda to create fear.
BMW raises electric car components capacity at Bavarian plant
Published On: February 6, 2020 04:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
MUNICH, Feb 6: BMW will increase its capacities for producing drivetrain components for electric cars at its key Dingolfing plant, a spokesman for the luxury automaker told Reuters on Thursday.
Not a break, but fissures in US-Iraqi military alliance
Published On: February 6, 2020 03:32 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Feb 6: A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of concrete to reinforce the barricades in beefed-up protections. The danger, soldiers there said, came not from the constellation of militant sleeper cells embedded in the landscape but further afield in Iran.
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