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Blake Shelton riles up Twitter with his ‘tone-deaf’ new song, ‘Minimum Wage’


January 4, 2021

Famed country singer Blake Shelton has riled up social media after he dropped his latest song, titled Minimum Wage. The new track was labelled ‘tone-deaf’ by netizens soon after its music video was shared by the singer during his virtual appearance on NBC’s New Year’s Eve special. As per country music blog Taste of Country, the track is about Shelton and his fiancée, Gwen …

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Bond girl Tanya Roberts dies at age of 65


January 4, 2021

US actress and producer Tanya Roberts, best known for playing Bond girl Stacey Sutton in A View To A Kill has died at age of 65. The Mirror quoting TMZ reported, Tanya Roberts passed away days after she reportedly “collapsed after walking with her dogs on Christmas Eve.” Tanya, who was a Charlie’s Angel in the TV series, was taken to hospital when she collapsed after …

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What Sonya Hussyn will be doing differently in 2021


January 4, 2021

A global pandemic, social isolation, and time away from career, families and loved ones — 2020 indeed was a year of thoughtful self-cultivation and priority shifts. And like us, actor Sonya Hussyn has decided to make some healthy changes as well. In a series of liberating pictures on instagram, she revealed to her audience what all she wants to do …

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Pakistan urges UN to get Asiya Andrabi released


January 4, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the UN secretary general in New York and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva to seek an immediate release of Kashmiri activist and poli­tical leader, Asiya Andrabi, who is incarcerated in the infamous Tihar Jail in India. According to the Foreign Office, the top UN officials have been informed that Ms Andrabi’s life …

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No, Sanam Jung and her husband are not splitting up


January 4, 2021

Will the rumour mills ever chill? Hasn’t seemed like it for a very long time. The latest celebrity to be subject to chaos and invasion of privacy is Sanam Jung — who recently took to Instagram to shun all gossip surrounding a broken marriage. While many were heartbroken and others critical of the fact that Jung was getting a divorce …

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Afghan peace talks resume tomorrow as bloodshed continues


January 4, 2021

KABUL: A string of assassinations has sowed fear and chaos across Afghanistan as a fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban begin in Qatar on Tuesday. Months of deliberations between the two sides have yielded little so far, but both parties made a breakthrough last year when they finally agreed at least on what to …

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11 Republican senators enlist in long-shot Trump bid to undo Biden’s win


January 4, 2021

WASHINGTON: A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joining President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senators and senators-elect who have been enlisted for …

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Aden airport reopens days after deadly attack


January 4, 2021

SANAA: A plane landed on Sunday at the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, officials said, the first commercial flight to arrive since the deadly missile attack last week on the facility that killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others. The attack on Wednesday took place just moments after a plane carrying members of Yemen’s Cabinet …

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Anti-US chants rend air as Iraqis mourn Soleimani, Muhandis


January 4, 2021

BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi mourners chanted “revenge” and “no to America” on Sunday, one year after a US drone strike killed Iran’s revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Pro-Iranian supporters, many dressed in black, massed in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square to also condemn Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi as a “coward” and an “agent of …

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