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Northland news in brief: Bay waka ama festival postponed; and dairy industry awards tonight 8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Paddlers compete in the Kris Kjeldsen Memorial Race/Te Taiawhio o Ipipiri during a previous Bay of Islands Waka Ama Festival. Photo / Ruth Lawton Northern Advocate The Bay of Islands Waka Ama Festival, which was to have been held at Waitangi on March 13-14, has been postponed due to Covid-19 concerns. A new date has yet to be set. Organisers said they had to decide ...

Karachi March 7, 2021 Although the organisers of the Aurat March (Women March) have planned to hold a sit-in at the Frere Hall in Karachi on Monday (tomorrow) to mark International Women’s Day, different events related to the international day kicked off in the city on Saturday. International Women’s Day is celebrated all across the globe every year on March 8. In Karachi too, dozens of programmes are held every year with the main objective of spreading awareness of women’s righ...

Jellyfish blooms sign of troubles ahead for fishermen Business March 7, 2021 HYDERABAD: Majeed Motani, a veteran boat captain from Ibrahim Hydri, Karachi, believes that fishermen were too slow in understanding the damage their practices brought on the marine environment. “It took more time to make fishermen realise that they have destroyed potential fishing grounds around them, and now they are compelled to catch jellyfish blooms for survival,” he said. Hardly a few years back, boat crews...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, who on Saturday won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly three days after losing a key Senate poll in the same political battleground, faces serious...

India Detains Scores Of Rohingya Ahead Of Expected Deportation To Myanmar By AFP News on March 08 2021 2:56 AM Scores of Rohingya who fled persecution in Myanmar are being held in a detention centre in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said Sunday, after being rounded up ahead of their expected deportation to the protest-wracked nation. At least 168 people from the Muslim minority from Buddhist-dominated Myanmar have been picked up by authorities in the norther...


 
 Pope Francis is closing the biggest-ever Roman Catholic World Youth Day event with a mass on Brazils Copacabana beach.
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Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, said she had given an in-depth interview to U.S. chat show host Oprah Winfrey to be aired on Sunday because

Outspoken Aussie Jimmy Spithill has made a surprising claim about his rival Peter Burling.

BRUSSELS (dpa-AFX) - At 8:30 am ET Friday, U.S. jobs data for February and trade data for January are due. Ahead of these data, the greenback traded mixed against its major counterparts. While

CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - At 8:30 am ET Friday, Statistics Canada will release Canada trade data for January. Before the data, the loonie held steady against its major counterparts. The loonie was