Tue 25 July 2023: Pakistan’s Election Commission has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Imran Khan in the latest legal challenge facing the former prime minister. The latest case came on Monday, the same day Khan was granted bail by the Supreme Court in a different case. Khan has been slapped with more than 150 cases, including […]
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Mon 24 July 2023: Taliban Deputy Minister of Economy Abdul Latif Nazari says a plan is being drawn up for women to return to work and that the current restrictions on women in the workplace are not necessarily permanent., local media reported. “Fourteen thousand women work in the health sector,” Nazari stated on Sunday in […]
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People being treated at a crowded hospital in Dhaka [Nazmul Islam/Al Jazeera] Mon 24 July 2023: Dhaka, Bangladesh – Bangladesh is grappling with a deadly dengue outbreak as heavy monsoon rains in the country cause widespread infections and fill hospitals. Health experts in the South Asian nation of 170 million people say the disease has already reached […]
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Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad supporters participate in a procession ahead of Hanuman Jayanti in Gurugram on April 2. | PTI (FILE PHOTO) Sun 23 July 2023: An Imam of a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district was allegedly forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at a gunpoint recently. He was assaulted after he refused […]
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Sat 22 July 2023: Iran’s allegation that leaders of Daesh have relocated to Afghanistan from Iraq, Syria, and Libya has been refuted by the Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, local media reported. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian recently told ISNA news agency: “It is not a secret to anyone that the leaders of Daesh and […]
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Sat 22 July 2023: The mainly Hindu Meitis form a narrow majority among Manipur’s 3.5 million population, as per India’s last census conducted in 2011. The group is largely concentrated in the prosperous valley area around Imphal, the state capital, in central Manipur. They also enjoy political dominance, with the state’s chief minister N Biren Singh […]
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A woman casts her vote at a polling station for the parliamentary elections in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) Sat 22 July 2023: The five-year tenure of national and provincial assemblies ends on August 12, with new elections to be held within 60 days of the date. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s […]
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Sat 22 July 2023: Pop band from the United Kingdom The 1975’s performance at a Malaysian music festival was stopped short after frontman Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticized Malaysia’s anti-LGBTQ laws. In Muslim-majority Malaysia, homosexuality is a crime. In videos posted on social media, Healy was seen kissing bassist Ross MacDonald […]
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Fri 21 July 2023: Since early this year, Beijing has been buzzing with intense diplomatic traffic, with numerous heads of government and state visiting the country. President Xi Jinping personally received a number of former and current foreign officials, including former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. However, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been […]
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A combination of pictures from a screen grab of a viral video (R) shows the main culprit named Huirem Herodas Meitei of Pechi Awang Leikai holding the woman, who was arrested in the Manipur women video case, Fri 21 July 2023: Women attacked the home of the primary suspect in a sexual assault case […]
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