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A Christmas season without its traditional glow in Ukraine-
By PTI KYIV: Just a year ago, Sophia Square in Kyiv was all about the big Christmas tree and thousands of ...
Pak central bank criticises Shehbaz Sharif govt’s policy of prioritising growth over financial stabi-
By PTI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s central bank has criticised the cash-strapped Shehbaz Sharif government for prioritising growth at the expense of ...
Canadian polar bears near ‘Polar Bear Capital’ dying at alarming rate, a new survey found
Researchers have found an alarming death rate among polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay, an area that includes a ...
Sitiveni Rabuka sworn in as Fiji prime minister after close election-
By Associated Press MELBOURNE: Sitiveni Rabuka was sworn in as Fiji’s prime minister on Saturday more than two decades after ...
China’s propaganda machine sputters in zero-Covid reversal-
By AFP BEIJING: China’s state media is struggling and censors are working overtime as Beijing gropes for a coherent narrative ...
Twenty killed in fire at nursing home in Russia-
By AFP MOSCOW: A fire erupted overnight in a private nursing home in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing at ...
‘Serpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj arrives in France after release-
By AFP PARIS: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, arrived in France ...
19-year-old man killed in shooting at Mall of America-
By Associated Press BLOOMINGTON: A teenager was killed during a shooting at the Mall of America on Friday that sent ...
Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums as COVID roils China-
By Associated Press BAZHOU: Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei ...
‘Epic’ winter storm wallops US, leaving 1 million without power-
By AFP CHICAGO: More than a million US power customers were in the dark Friday as a “bomb cyclone” winter ...
