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Death toll rises after blaze at major Kuwait oil refinery

The death toll from a fire at a major oil refinery in Kuwait has been raised to four after two critically injured workers died...

China can impose 645 million dollars retaliatory tariffs on US imports, says WTO

A World Trade Organisation (WTO) arbitrator has decided that China can impose retaliatory tariffs on imports from the United States totalling up to 645...

Mass testing begins as Beijing prepares to host Winter Olympics

The Chinese capital reported 14 new Covid-19 cases as it began a third round of mass testing of millions of people in the run-up...

IMF calls on El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender

The International Monetary Fund wants El Salvador to drop the highly volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender and strictly regulate the electronic wallet the...

France bans conversion therapy

France has a new law that bans conversion therapies and authorises jail time and fines for practitioners who use the scientifically discredited practice to...

First woman judge appointed to Pakistan’s Supreme Court

Pakistan has a woman on its highest court for the first time. Ayesha Malik’s swearing-in as a justice on Pakistan’s Supreme Court was a landmark...

Partial lockdown imposed in Hong Kong following Covid outbreak

Hong Kong expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions after more than 200 cases of Covid-19 were discovered at a public housing estate. Hong...

Tory minister says fraud in government is rampant after ‘dramatic’ resignation

A Tory minister who quit in what has been described as “one of the most dramatic moments ever seen” in the House of Lords...

People trapped in vehicles as snow storm hits Istanbul

Rescue crews were forging ahead with efforts to clear major throughways in and around Istanbul that were clogged by a massive snow storm that...

Student kills one and wounds three in shooting at German university

A lone gunman opened fire during a packed lecture at Heidelberg University in south-western Germany and wounded four people – one of them fatally...

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