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Turkey orders 48-hour curfew in 31 cities
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], April 11 (ANI): Turkey has imposed a 48-hour curfew in 31 provinces beginning at midnight as part of measures to stem the spread of COVID-19, the country's interior ministry announced on Friday (local time).
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Pakistan's COVID-19 tally nears 2,000; Punjab, Sindh on top
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 1 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh and Punjab share the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, with the tally at 676 in both provinces.
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Pakistan's Interior Ministry allows troop deployment to tackle COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 23 (ANI): The Interior Ministry of Pakistan on Monday issued an order allowing the deployment of armed forces in all four provinces including the national capital city of Islamabad, Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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Iran says pace of COVID-19 outbreak slows down
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], March 21 (Xinhua/ANI) -- The pace of COVID-19 outbreak is slowing down in almost all provinces of the country, Iran's Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi was quoted as saying by the state TV on Saturday.
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Coronavirus cases spike in Sindh, Balochistan, KPK as Pak ignores province
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 19 (ANI): Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reported two deaths from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, while the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan have registered 208 and 23 cases of the infection respectively, prompting fears of an exponenti
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6000 Indians stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran, initial focus on evacuation
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 12 (ANI): More than 6000 Indians are stranded in different provinces of coronavirus-hit Iran and the Indian government is making focused efforts for their safe return to India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.
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Pashtun, Baloch facing worst human rights crisis, says activists at UNHRC
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 11 (ANI): Political activists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have raised the issue of worsening human rights situation in their provinces by targeting the Pakistani Army during the 43rd session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Baloch, Sindhi, Pashtun activists lambast Pak Army for human rights violat
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 6 (ANI): Activists from Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan have lambasted the Pakistani Army for carrying out human rights violations against the minorities in the country.
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US issues advisory, asks its citizens to reconsider visiting Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [USA], Feb 04 (ANI): The United States has advised its citizens to reconsider their travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and issued the highest level of travel alerts for the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) along with the Line of Control (LoC) where terrorist
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Ice storm pounds Canadian provinces forcing hundreds of flight cancellatio
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Dec 31 (Sputnik/ANI): An ice storm has grounded dozens of flights and left thousands without power in eastern Ontario and Quebec, according to flight monitoring data and local power authorities.
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Afghans hold candlelight vigil for slain Japanese doctor
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Dec 6 (ANI): Afghans on Thursday held candlelight vigils in capital Kabul and parts of Nangarhar and Parwan provinces to pay homage to Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese Doctor who was gunned down in an attack in Nangarhar city earlier this week.
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6 killed, 158 wounded in anti-gov't protests in southern Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Nov 24 (ANI): At least six people were killed and some 158 others sustained injuries in anti-government protests in southern provinces of Basra and Dhi Qar on Sunday, the Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) had said.
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