Cairo (AP) – An Egyptian criminal court has stripped an elderly Coptic Christian woman naked on the streets of a village in southern Egypt in Muslim 2016 and acquitted three Muslim men accused of marrying her, the state’s official news agency said. The trio were sentenced in January to 10 …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Amid tensions over its nuclear program, Iran has begun construction at a site on its underground nuclear facility at Fordo, satellite photos obtained Friday by the Associated Press show. Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordo, which was discovered by the …
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An epidemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020 By the Associated Press December 16, 2020 GMT https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-brazil-israel-india-coronavirus-pandemic-c1ba685119fd12108dd6d89f2fb89702 Almost no place is spared – and no one. The virus, which first appeared in Wuhan, China, a year ago, spread worldwide in 2020 and caused a stir. An epidemic …
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The incident, which occurred at about 00:40 a.m. local time, “caused an explosion and subsequent fire,” the company said, as well as damage to the hull. What the “external source” was is unclear at this time. The statement added that the master immediately stopped all discharge operations and the ship’s …
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Zam was convicted of “corruption on Earth”, a crime not specified, but used by the Iranian government for alleged attempts to overthrow him. Zame ran the opposition online news site Amad News, which accused Tehran of inciting violence during deadly protests in 2017 and 2018, the semi-official Tasnim news agency …
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