Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus […]
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SHANGHAI: China is able to make India suffer more severe military losses than in the past if it wants to engage in competition, state-backed newspaper Global Times said on Tuesday, after a fresh border flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. Indian forces foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to occupy a hill on the Asian giants disputed border in […]
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LOS ANGELES: US police have shot dead another black man, who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as tensions soar over racism and police brutality. The man, named in local media as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle when Los Angeles […]
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PARIS: French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by gunmen in 2015, said on Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial sketches of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to mark this week’s start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack. The cover of the new issue has a dozen sketches of […]
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VIENNA: The signatories to the Iran nuclear deal said on Tuesday that they stood by the faltering accord and China slammed US efforts to restore international sanctions on the Islamic republic and extend an arms embargo. Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are struggling to save the landmark 2015 accord with Iran, which has been […]
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Leaders of PPP and PML-N on Wednesday reiterated their commitment to using all “democratic and constitutional ways” available to send the government packing. PPP leaders Naveed Qamar and Farhatullah Babar and PML-N’s Ahsan Iqbal and Marriyum Aurangzeb were addressing a joint press conference after a meeting between delegations of both parties following Shehbaz Sharif’s arrival […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that he has directed authorities to take steps to release female prisoners, both under-trial and convicted, in line with a Supreme Court order issued in April. In a two-part tweet, the premier said that he had issued the directions after a meeting with the Minister for Human Rights Shireen […]
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At least 18 more people were killed and over two dozen injured in rain-related incidents, as heavy rainfall continued to batter parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Wednesday. Rain has continued to lash different districts of KP including Mansehra, Battagram, Bunir, Shangla, Kohistan and Swat for days causing widespread damage to roads and houses […]
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KARACHI: After the dissolution of elected local bodies in the province, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Tuesday claimed that names for the slot of Karachi administrator, who would run the city’s municipal affairs until fresh local government elections, was being discussed by the coordination committee comprising representatives of the federal and Sindh governments. He also ruled out […]
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The Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) on Wednesday got a first information report (FIR) registered against dozens of people who had gathered outside its Karachi office earlier this week to protest the authorities’ slackness in removing rainwater from roads in DHA and Clifton despite the passage of several days since the heavy monsoon rains. The FIR has been […]
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