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3-year-old boy found after three days in Australian woods


September 7, 2021

CANBERRA: A three-year-old boy wearing a sweat shirt and diapers was found sitting in a creek and cupping water in his hands to drink on Monday, three days after he was lost in rugged Australian woodland. Hundreds of people had been searching for Anthony AJ Elfalak, who has autism and is non-verbal, since he went missing from his family’s remote …

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Coronavirus cuts life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years


September 7, 2021

ROME: Coronavirus cut average life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years in 2020, and by more than four years in parts of the country hit hard by the pandemic, official statistics showed on Monday. Life expectancy at birth last year stood at 82 years, compared to 83.2 years in 2019, the Istat national statistics office said in a new release. …

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In world first, Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador


September 7, 2021

El Salvador on Tuesday becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, despite widespread domestic scepticism and international warnings of risks for consumers. President Nayib Bukele’s government claims the move will give many Salvadorans access to bank services for the first time and save some $400 million in fees on remittances sent home from abroad …

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Blinken in Doha for talks on Afghan crisis with Qatar


September 7, 2021

DOHA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Doha on Monday for crisis talks with the Qataris after the Taliban claimed to have full control over Afghanistan. Shortly before landing, an official disclosed that four Americans had left Afghanistan with Taliban knowledge, in the first departures arranged by Washington since its chaotic military pullout. The four US citizens left by land …

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Blinken, Austin meet in Qatar on Afghan evacuations


September 7, 2021

US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin opened talks on Tuesday in key diplomatic hub Qatar as they try to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. The top officials from US President Joe Biden’s security team began a meeting at the foreign ministry with their counterparts after a dinner on arrival on Monday with …

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A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen


September 7, 2021

Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male peers by curtains or boards down the middle of the classroom. What happens in universities and schools across the country is being closely watched by foreign powers, who want the group …

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Nashonuma initiative to be upgraded: Sania Nishtar


September 7, 2021

ISLAMABAD: A workshop was held on Monday to take stock of the Ehsaas programme’s progress, successes and lessons learnt across 14 districts to upscale it nationwide. Representatives from the field teams of Ehsaas Nashonuma in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KP, AJK and GB participated in the workshop along with experts from the World Food Programme. Speaking on the occasion, Special Assistant …

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TTP issues warning to media


September 7, 2021

PESHAWAR: The proscribed Tehr­eek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a stark warning to national me­dia and journalists, asking them to refrain from calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be treated as enemies. In a statement apparently released by the TTP on social media on Monday, its spokesman Mohammad Khurasani reportedly said they were monitoring the media coverage, branding the …

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Body of teenager who died in police custody shifted from Islamabad to Peshawar


September 7, 2021

ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move, the capital police escorted an ambulance carrying the body of a teenager who died in police custody to Peshawar. A family member of the boy, Shabbir Pakhtonyar, told that they along with the body of the boy were expelled from the capital and escorted by three mobiles of the police from Islamabad to the Peshawar …

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Federal Directorate of Education issues dress code for male, female teachers


September 7, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Monday asked female teachers not to wear jeans and tights and banned their male counterparts from wearing jeans and t-shirts. All principals have been directed to ensure that their teaching and non-teaching staff (both male and female) ensured personal hygiene, including regular haircut, beard trimming, nail cutting and use of perfume. Through …

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