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Israeli police fatally shoot man at Jerusalem’s holy site

The Associated Press 01 Apr 2023
For nearly three months, hundreds of thousands of people have repeatedly taken to the streets week after week to demonstrate against the plan, crippling major highways and city streets as they accused him of pushing the country toward dictatorship ... The country’s main trade union declared a general strike ... The general strike was quickly halted.
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Ecuador Landslide Death Toll Surpasses 20 - Authorities

Urdu Point 01 Apr 2023
MEXICO CITY (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st April, 2023) The death toll from a landslide in central Ecuador has risen to 23, the country's prosecutor general's office informs.
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Aircraft owners, operators reject outsourcing of three airports

Dawn 01 Apr 2023
No country outsources its money-making assets such as airports to a third country (Qatar) that does not run even its own airport and has outsourced ... The participants in the meeting declared that outsourcing would create problems for the CAA in particular and the country in general.
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CJP gets misty-eyed in poll delay case hearing

The News International 01 Apr 2023
The bench rejected the request, put forward by Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan on behalf of the government ... The government’s top lawyer requested the court to let the political temperature come down, adding that it needed to be done all over the country ... “I’ll inform the court about the country’s economic situation,” he said.
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PTI stages protest demo against disappearance of social media activists

The News International 01 Apr 2023
He said the voice of the people could not be suppressed ... “If we do not stand with the judiciary today, the country would be unbridled.” ... Addressing the protesters, Karachi PTI General Secretary Arslan Taj said middle class youths had been forcibly disappeared in the country, and the party had no idea where the PTI’s missing workers were ... .
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Man wearing niqab while begging arrested in Kuwait

Gulf News 31 Mar 2023
An Asian man caught begging wearing a niqab has been arrested in Kuwait by the General Administration of Residence Affairs Investigation, local media reported ... that Kuwaiti authorities have launched to combat begging in the country, particularly in Ramadan.
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UAE wins bid to host third ICAO Conference on Aviation and Alternative Fuels

Beijing News 31 Mar 2023
MONTREAL, 31st March, 2023 (WAM) -- The UAE, represented by the General Civil Aviation Authority, has won the bid to host the third edition of the ICAO Conference on Aviation and Alternative Fuels ... will contribute to achieving the goals of the country's national strategies.".
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China Focus: China, ASEAN aim for deepened agriculture cooperation

China.dot.org 31 Mar 2023
China's agricultural investment in ASEAN countries accounts for 40 percent of its total oversea investment ... dollars in 2022, topping the other countries and regions worldwide, according to Sui Pengfei, director general of the international cooperation department under China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
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China, ASEAN aim for deepened agriculture cooperation

People Daily 31 Mar 2023
China's agricultural investment in ASEAN countries accounts for 40 percent of its total oversea investment ... dollars in 2022, topping the other countries and regions worldwide, according to Sui Pengfei, director general of the international cooperation department under China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
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Simultaneous elections: a panacea of country's problems

Urdu Point 31 Mar 2023
PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 31st Mar, 2023 ) .Hardly recovered from the whopping USD 40 billion floods losses last year, Pakistan's economic woes were likely to persist this year as huge financial resources would be required for holding the general elections, experts say.
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UN calls for a war on garbage on In'l Zero-Waste Day

Urdu Point 31 Mar 2023
The Secretary-General also encouraged countries to take inspiration from examples like Turkiye's Zero Waste project, which is spearheaded by? the First Lady, Emine Erdogan, who is also chairperson of his newly established Advisory board of Eminent Persons on Zero Waste.
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Fox host Pete Hegseth: Trump mugshot will be a “symbol of resistance against the uniparty, ...

Media Matters 31 Mar 2023
But ultimately, I think Democrats think, okay, now that he's been indicted, he'll become the nominee for the Republicans, but then Joe Biden or the Democrat will win the general ... In the general election, you're gonna have as clear a contrast has ever existed between the state of our country right now and this -- this will be a rallying cry.
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To open rupee trade with countries facing currency crisis: Govt

Financial Express 31 Mar 2023
So, we are saying that we will ‘disaster-proof’ these countries, which are facing problems, so that our exports don’t suffer ... Santosh Sarangi, director-general, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, said the move will help countries facing foreign currency issues and will encourage higher transactions with India.
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Encourage banks, payment service providers to use PAPSS

B & FT Online 31 Mar 2023
... encouraging trade among African countries. Emphasising the importance of a common payment platform for boosting intra-African trade, the Secretary-General said the continent loses about US$5billion due to challenges regarding payment between African countries that engage in trade.
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Risk of nuclear weapons use 'higher than any time' since Cold War, UN warns

Anadolu Agency 31 Mar 2023
US deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood said that no other country than Russia was inflicting such damage on arms control. "No country is threatening Russia or President (Vladimir ) Putin," he said ... Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended his country's recent move and said that "there's a general logic of our former Western partners here.

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