Day: July 3, 2019

27,804 stray dogs caught by NDMC in north Delhi in 2018-19

10:49 pm July 3, 2019

New Delhi: There has been a rise in the number of stray dogs caught by civic authorities in north Delhi with over 27,800 canines being captured and sterilised in 2018-19, according to official data shared on Wednesday. However, there has been a fall in the number of monkeys caught by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation […]

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Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Iran state TV blasted over report on secret oil sales

10:44 pm July 3, 2019

Tehran: Iranian officials slammed the country’s state television on Wednesday for airing a programme on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went “against national interests”. Washington abandoned a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers last year and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic republic’s crucial oil sales as […]

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Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Iran to bypass uranium enrichment maximum despite calls for rethink

10:40 pm July 3, 2019

Tehran : Iran ignored US and EU warnings Wednesday and vowed to exceed within days the maximum uranium enrichment level it agreed to in the landmark 2015 nuclear accord. Iran is acting on its May 8 threat to suspend parts of the agreement in response to US President Donald Trump’s reimposition of crippling sanctions after […]

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COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

US sanctions Cuban state-run oil company over Venezuela

10:33 pm July 3, 2019

Washington: The United States on Wednesday sanctioned Cuba’s state-run oil firm, Cubametales, over continued importation from Venezuela amid an American embargo meant to undermine the Caracas regime. Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro “is clinging to Cuba to stay in power, buying military and intelligence operatives in exchange for oil,” US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in […]

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Outcry as dozens killed in air strike on Libya migrant centre

10:28 pm July 3, 2019

Tripoli : International condemnation mounted on Wednesday after more than 40 migrants were killed in an air strike on a detention centre in Libya that the UN said could constitute a war crime. The UN Security Council was set to hold urgent talks about the situation in the North African country following what the European […]

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