Wed 04 August 2021: A nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped, murdered, and cremated by her attackers in the Purana Nangal area of South West Delhi, India, on Sunday evening, reported The Print. Four suspects were arrested Monday — a priest, Radhe Shyam, along with Laxmi Narayan and Kuldeep who worked with the priest, and Salim, […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The advocacy organisation CAGE has launched a legal challenge claiming UK Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, discriminated against Muslim students and failed to protect freedom of expression in a letter to headteachers ordering them to clampdown on students who express solidarity with Palestine on school premises. Some students were disciplined for wearing […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The South African National Parks (SANParks) says it will be going cash-free from 1 September 2021. The cash free payment system will be implemented in two phases with several parks implementing this approach from the 2021/22 financial year and the remaining parks implementing the system in the 2022/ 23 fiscal year. […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on that the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking for a halt on booster COVID-19 vaccination doses until the end of September to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world. He said the move was to enable that at least 10% of the […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: France will supply Lebanon with 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and 100 million Euros ($119 million) in assistance, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron made the statement at an international virtual conference on Lebanon co-hosted by France and the United Nations on Wednesday. “We intend to send about 100 million […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: About 70 per cent of Yemenis are at risk of starvation, the World Bank said yesterday, at a time when the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) has halved since 2015. “The six-year conflict in Yemen has left at least 24.1 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 12.3 million children […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation is offering a reward of R50 000 to anyone who can provide information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of three suspects involved in the Tsineng police station armed robbery. On Saturday, the armed suspects entered the Tsineng police station in the Northern […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The UN Security Council does not support “the restoration of the Islamic Emirate” in Afghanistan , a statement said Tuesday. “The members of the Security Council recognized that a sustainable peace can be achieved only through a comprehensive and inclusive Afghan-led, Afghan-owned peace process,” said the statement, adding that an inclusive, […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: Singapore plans to increase the number of police cameras to more than 200,000 by at least 2030, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam said Tuesday. The move will more than double the current number of cameras deployed across the island state. With a land area of a little over 700 […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: According to a UN official, around 4.4 million people in northeastern Nigeria may experience food shortages and acute hunger as a result of increased attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group and the displacement of farmers in the area. Esty Sutyoko, deputy head of the UN Office for the Coordination of […]
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