CANADA HITS PAUSE ON TRADE MISSION TO INDIA AFTER TENSIONS AT G20 SUMMIT

Sat 16 September 2023: Canada has announced it would postpone an October trade mission to India, in the midst of strained relations between the two countries. A spokesperson for Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng confirmed the change on Friday, though no reason was offered for the delay. “At this time, we are postponing the upcoming trade […]

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WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS: TALIBAN HIGHER EDUCATION MINISTER

Fri 15  September 2023: Taliban Acting Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadim says securing the rights of women and girls, especially their right to education, is one of the obligations of the Islamic Emirate, but it takes time to provide educational grounds based on Islamic Sharia. Speaking in an interview with state TV-RTA, Nadim […]

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AFTER 20 YEARS, DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI ‘WAS A LIVING CORPSE, SHE LOOKED DRAINED AND SCALDED, AND IN SO MUCH PAIN’

Fri 15  September 2023: Pakistani neuroscientist and mother of three, Aafia Siddiqui, was abducted from Pakistan in 2003; activists believe she was held by the US in the notorious Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and tortured because of her alleged links to Al-Qaeda, links her family says she does not have and claims which she says […]

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OPPOSITION ALLIANCE IN INDIA TO BOYCOTT 14 ANCHORS ACROSS 9 TV NEWS CHANNELS

Thu 14  September 2023: The INDIA alliance will boycott 14 news anchors for their “communal coverage” and deflection from issues of public interest. According to local media, that representatives of the INDIA alliance will not appear on the shows of these anchors: Aman Chopra, Amish Devgan and Anand Narasimhan of News18, Aditi Tyagi of Bharat Express, […]

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SOUTH KOREA EXPRESSES ‘DEEP CONCERN’ OVER RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA MEETING

Thu 14  September 2023: South Korea has expressed “deep concern and regret” over a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Lim Soo-suk, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, said, “We express our deep concern and regret that despite repeated warnings from the international community, North Korea and Russia discussed […]

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OPINION: CHINA’S ‘BEAUTIFUL XINJIANG’ CONTINUES TO OPPRESS UIGHURS

Thu 14  September 2023: As Beijing tries to convince the world that the Xinjiang region has moved on, its Uighur residents continue to suffer. During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26,  Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that the predominantly Muslim Uighur region is enjoying some “hard-won social stability”, and that it is […]

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INDIAN SECURITY OFFICERS, REBELS KILLED IN GUN BATTLE IN KASHMIR

  Indian officials pay respect to Humayun Muzammil Bhat, the J&K DSP who was slain in the Anantnag encounter. Thu 14  September 2023: Three Indian security officers were killed in an ongoing gun battle with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Anantnag district, while another soldier and two rebels were killed in a separate gunfight in the border district of Rajouri on Wednesday. A joint party of police and army launched an operation on […]

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BEIJING REJECTS WESTERN RHETORIC OF CHINA ECONOMY COLLAPSE

Wed 13  September 2023: A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry stated on Tuesday that since the start of the year, despite the weak global economic recovery and a difficult and complex external environment, China’s economy has continued to recover on a generally sound track of rebound, Xinhua repotted. Mao Ning, the spokesperson, made the […]

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CHINA BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO APPOINTS FIRST AFGHAN ENVOY SINCE TALIBAN TAKEOVER

  Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, accepted the credentials of Mr Zhao Xing, the new Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan on 13 September 2023 [bakhtarnews/X]. Wed 13  September 2023: A new Chinese ambassador presented his credentials to the Taliban prime minister in Kabul on Wednesday, Reuters has reported. Afghan officials added […]

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MORE THAN 70 CROCODILES ON THE LOOSE AFTER FLOODING IN CHINA

Wed 13  September 2023: Authorities in southern China have launched an operation to find more than 70 crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent days. A typhoon brought sustained heavy rains to southern China last week. Deluges around the city of Maoming in Guangdong province caused a lake at a commercial crocodile […]

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