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Manama: Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister Essam bin Abdullah Khalaf visited Mohammed bin Faris Park and Ain Al Haninia Park projects in Riffa and confirmed reaching the final stages of their construction work. The final stage includes the installation of games and rubber floors, football fields, and tree planting work that is expected to be completed by the end of this year. “The ministry is keen to preserve the old heritage springs that represent an important legacy in the history of Bahrain, including Ain Al Haniniya in Riffa, in addition to expanding the green area and increasing these kinds of…

Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency. The supplies put India at risk of sanctions from the United States under a 2017 U.S. law aimed at deterring countries from buying Russian military hardware. “The first supplies have already been started,” Interfax cited Shugayev as saying on Sunday at an aerospace trade show in Dubai. He said that the first unit of an S-400 systems will arrive in India by the end of this year. The $5.5 billion deal for…

At the main hospital in Romania’s capital, the morgue ran out of space for the dead in recent days, and doctors in Bulgaria have suspended routine surgeries so they can tend to a surge in COVID-19 patients. In the Serbian capital, the graveyard now operates an extra day during the week in order to bury all the bodies arriving. For two months now, a stubborn wave of virus infections has ripped mercilessly through several countries in Central and Eastern Europe, where vaccination rates are much lower than elsewhere on the continent. While medical workers pleaded for tough restrictions or even…

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth missed Sunday’s Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph due to a sprained back, extending the 95-year-old monarch’s absence from public life after she was ordered to rest following a stay in hospital last month. A Buckingham Palace source said the sprain was unrelated to the unspecified ailment that caused the queen’s hospital visit, calling it an “incredibly unfortunate coincidence”. But Elizabeth’s absence from an engagement she sees as one of the most significant of the year will increase concerns about her health. The ceremony would have been the queen’s first in-person public engagement since she was advised…

Manama: National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s President Ali Ahmed Al Derazi received US Congress delegation. NIHR president praised the strong relations between the two countries, and the development they are witnessing on all levels. Al Derazi reviewed NIHR’s efforts in following up on the human rights situation, and the role it plays in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom.

Manama :  The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) and the institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation have signed a cooperation protocol. Signed by the Chairman of the NIHR’s Council of Commissioners, Ali Ahmed Al-Derazi, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, Professor Tatiana Moskalkova, the protocol aims to provide a framework for bilateral cooperation in issues of mutual concern, through exchanging legal expertise, participation in international meetings related to human rights and reviewing the two institutions’ experiences in protecting and enhancing women’s rights. The protocol is based on the memorandum…

MANILA  : Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter on Saturday registered her candidacy for vice president in next year’s elections and was chosen as the running mate of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late Filipino dictator, in an alliance that has alarmed human rights activists. Sara Duterte backed out this week from her reelection bid as mayor of southern Davao city then took the place of a largely unknown vice-presidential candidate of her political party, Lakas CMD, in a maneuver that allowed her to seek the second-highest post even after a deadline lapsed for candidates in the May 9…

WASHINGTON : President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will hold their much-anticipated virtual summit on Monday evening as the two sides look to dial back tensions after a rough start to the U.S.-China relationship since Biden took office earlier this year. The White House is setting low expectations for the video call between the leaders. Biden looks to stress that the two nations need to set guardrails in deepening areas of conflict in the increasingly complicated relationship between the two nations. White House officials said that no major announcements are expected to come from the meeting. “I wouldn’t set…

DOHUK :  Sarkawt Ismat was cold, hungry and terrified, trapped between Polish and Belarusian troops facing off on opposite sides of the European Union’s eastern border. The 19-year-old Iraqi taxi driver is among thousands from the Middle East who have been trying to cross into the EU in recent months through a backdoor opened by non-EU member Belarus. Ismat left his home in Dohuk, a town in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, two weeks ago, after selling his taxi. He paid $2,600 to a local travel agency for a bus to Turkey, a hotel stay in Istanbul, a plane ticket to…

Tokyo : The Japanese government’s preparations for the next virus surge include adding thousands more hospital beds to avoid a situation like last summer when many COVID-19 patients were forced to stay home, even while dependent on oxygen deliveries, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Even though Japan has a reasonable health insurance system and the world’s largest number of beds per capita, COVID-19 patients were admitted to only a fraction of the beds, mostly at public, university and major private hospitals. The government has provided subsidies to lure more hospitals to treat such patients, but progress is slow, triggering calls…