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French minister says will not pay for Twitter’s blue checkmark

PARIS: French minister and government spokesman Olivier Veran said on Sunday that he would not pay Twitter’s $7.99...

Published 07 Nov, 2022 07:38am

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Macron beats Le Pen to win second term

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron defeated his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday by a comfortable ...

Published 25 Apr, 2022 05:42am

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French minister hopes COVID wave will peak within days

PARIS: Health Minister Olivier Veran told LCI TV on Tuesday he hoped France would reach the peak of the current...

Published 25 Jan, 2022 12:56pm

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France to see record of more than 350,000 new COVID infections Tuesday

PARIS: France's health ministry will announce later on Tuesday a record of more than 350,000 new COVID infections...

Published 11 Jan, 2022 08:23pm

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France to ease Covid isolation rules: government

PARIS: France will relax Covid isolation rules from Monday, the government announced, in a bid to ease their impact...

Published 02 Jan, 2022 10:33am

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France hopes new vaccine pass will speed up vaccination amid Omicron spread

PARIS: France hopes that a planned new vaccine pass that will be required to enter public places will persuade more...

Updated 18 Dec, 2021 08:27pm

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France reports 63,405 new COVID-19 cases, average new cases at new 2021 high

PARIS: France on Tuesday reported 63,405 coronavirus infections, the second-highest number of new infections this...

Published 15 Dec, 2021 01:09am

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France records highest one-day tally in COVID cases since April

PARIS: France has registered about 47,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, Health Minister...

Published 30 Nov, 2021 11:27pm

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Crowds back at Disneyland Paris as France breathes easy

PARIS: France savoured a fresh sense of freedom Thursday as people were allowed to remove face masks when outside ...

Published 18 Jun, 2021 04:16am

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Paris hospitals brace for COVID-19 third wave peak around April 20

They also estimated there would be just under 2,000 COVID-19 patients in hospital intensive care units in the Paris region around that peak, versus 1,723 as of Thursday.
"The central assumption is for the second wave to peak around April 20, when, in the greater Paris region, we would have slightly less than 2,000 patients in intensive care", he said.

Published 09 Apr, 2021 05:34pm

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French under-55s given AZ jab to get different 2nd dose

Experts say the theory is sound and, as with some other diseases, it could help convey effective immunity.

Published 09 Apr, 2021 03:01pm

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France reports 2021 high of 5,072 people in intensive care with COVID-19

The health ministry reported 381 new deaths, including 45 deaths in retirement homes over several days, taking the cumulative death toll to 95,337.

Updated 31 Mar, 2021 12:05am

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French health minister encourages use of AstraZeneca jab

Veran said that the South African variant had not been widely detected in France.

Published 08 Feb, 2021 08:09pm

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France registers four cases of Brazilian coronavirus variant, says minister

Veran said France was in a "race against time" against the mutations first identified in Britain, South Africa and Brazil.

Published 04 Feb, 2021 11:22pm

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France reports 23,608 new COVID-19 cases over 24 hours

The number of people in intensive care rose by 26 to 2,839 while the total number of patients hospitalised for the disease was down by 52 over 24 hours at 25,567.

Published 19 Jan, 2021 11:44pm

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France, UK boost vaccine campaigns, Britain shuts travel corridors

PARIS: France and Britain on Monday joined a growing list of nations starting mass vaccinations for all elderly...

Published 19 Jan, 2021 04:22am

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France extends vaccinations to people with high-risk illnesses from Jan. 18

Thursday's data were also likely to show that the total number of people vaccinated so far in France was close to 300,000, Veran told a news conference.

Published 14 Jan, 2021 11:50pm

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France keeps restaurants, ski resorts closed in virus battle

One in two intensive care beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients and non-essential procedures are still being postponed to ease the burden on hospitals.

Updated 08 Jan, 2021 12:02am

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France to open city COVID-19 vaccination centres before start of February: minister

Veran said on Twitter the government had decided to "speed up protection of priority public", meaning medical workers aged over 50 would get a vaccine from Monday.

Published 31 Dec, 2020 11:30pm

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France says third lockdown possible if Covid cases keep rising

France has been registering around 15,000 new infections per day, and on Friday confirmed the first case of a new coronavirus variant that recently emerged in Britain.

Published 27 Dec, 2020 10:57am

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French coronavirus infection rate unlikely to fall to lockdown threshold: minister

On Sunday, France registered 11,022 new cases, down from a high of over 86,000 per day a month ago. The number of people in ICUs fell by 10 to 3,220 on Sunday.

Published 07 Dec, 2020 07:56pm

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French cases target to lift some restrictions could be reached in second week of December

During a news conference detailing how France's second national lockdown is about to be gradually unwound, Veran also said the reproduction rate of the disease had fallen to 0.65.

Published 26 Nov, 2020 03:38pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 21	278.88
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 21	278.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 21	155.80
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 21	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 21	1.23
Euro to USD / Jan 21	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 21	6,049.24
India Sensex / Jan 21	75,838.36
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 21	39,604.71
Nasdaq / Jan 21	19,756.78
Hang Seng / Jan 21	19,872.36
FTSE 100 / Jan 21	8,548.29
Dow Jones / Jan 21	44,025.81
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 21	21,042

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 21	75.89
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 21	18,485
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 21	242,798
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 21	2,749.13
Cotton US¢/pound / Jan 21	67.43
Petrol/Litre / Jan 22	256.13

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Jan 21 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9.60 ▲ 1.00 (11.63%)
Equity Modaraba / Jan 21 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.54 ▲ 0.34 (10.62%)
Waves Home Appliances / Jan 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	11.30 ▲ 1.03 (10.03%)
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.98 ▲ 1.00 (10.02%)
Globe Residency / Jan 21 Globe Residency REIT(GRR)	17.36 ▲ 1.58 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 21 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	25.06 ▲ 2.28 (10.01%)
Olympia Mills / Jan 21 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	35.65 ▲ 3.24 (10.00%)
Pak Engineering / Jan 21 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	671.22 ▲ 61.02 (10.00%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 21 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	108.90 ▲ 9.90 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	45.21 ▼ -5.02 (-9.99%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	16.62 ▼ -1.62 (-8.88%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 21 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	64.32 ▼ -6.22 (-8.82%)
S.G.Power / Jan 21 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9 ▼ -0.81 (-8.26%)
Dadabhoy Cement / Jan 21 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	5.10 ▼ -0.43 (-7.78%)
Sanghar Sugar / Jan 21 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	23.05 ▼ -1.94 (-7.76%)
ZIL Limited / Jan 21 ZIL Limited(ZIL)	226.01 ▼ -18.99 (-7.75%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 21 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	526 ▼ -43.96 (-7.71%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 21 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	13 ▼ -1.03 (-7.34%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	111,866,059 ▲ 0.44
Bank Makramah / Jan 21 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	69,297,556 ▲ 0.05
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	64,182,488 ▼ -0.09
Lotte Chemical / Jan 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	59,473,543 ▼ -0.94
Fauji Cement / Jan 21 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	51,882,881 ▲ 0.34
Hascol Petrol / Jan 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	24,273,766 ▼ -0.39
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 21 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	23,353,008 ▼ -1.60
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	22,896,108 ▼ -5.02
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	21,890,802 ▼ -1.62

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