KABUL: Afghanistan imposed new anti-COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday amid a surge in new cases and depreciating reserves of donated vaccines. But the country is preparing to replenish vaccine stocks in the “near future,” an official said. “Wearing masks has become compulsory in public areas. We have almost finished our vaccines (donated by India) and hope to receive 700,000
On the latest episode of Frankly Speaking, the chief executive of Vision Fund, the biggest technology investor in the world, tells Frank Kane about the close relationship with Saudi Arabia and his plans for more mega-funds.
TRIPOLI: Two members of Libya’s security forces were killed and five others wounded Sunday evening in a car bomb blast at a checkpoint in the country’s south, a police source said. “A car bomb exploded as it was crossing a roadblock set up by the security forces” in the city of Sebha, a police official in the city said. Sebha is located around 750 kilometers (around 465 miles)
NEW DELHI: The district administration of Gorakhpur in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has denied forcibly evicting Muslim families from their ancestral homes as part of an initiative to ramp up “security measures” near a century-old temple. “We are not forcing anyone (to leave),” K. Vijyendra, Gorakhpur’s district magistrate (DM), told Arab News on Sunday. “There
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