Wed 24 May 2023: Pakistan is considering outlawing Imran Khan’s party for allegedly attacking the state, says the defence minister. This move is expected to infuriate Imran Khan’s fans and escalate his conflict with the military establishment. The powerful military, which has ruled directly or oversaw administrations throughout Pakistan’s history, and the influential civilian politicians […]
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PHOTO: SWATCH/FACEBOOK Wed 24 May 2023: Malaysian officials have seized watches that the Swiss manufacturer Swatch released to honor LGBTQ pride in Muslim-dominated nation. Swatch stated on Tuesday that on May 13 and 14, officials carried raids on Swatch stores located in 11 malls, taking 164 watches valued at a total of $14,000. The […]
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Wed 24 May 2023: A watch that was once owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty, whose life formed the basis of the 1987 Oscar-winning film “The Last Emperor”, sold for a record 49 million Hong Kong dollars ($6.2m) at auction. An Asian collector residing in Hong Kong and bidding by phone bought the rare […]
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Tue 23 May 2023: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been granted bail in multiple cases by an anti-terrorism court in capital Islamabad. Media reports on Tuesday said the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was granted bail until June 8 in eight cases related to violence at the court complex in March this year. […]
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Tue 23 May 2023: Following reports linking Indian-made cough syrups to the deaths of numerous children in The Gambia and Uzbekistan, India announced that testing will be required before cough syrups exported. With effect from June 1, all cough syrups must have a certificate of analysis from a government laboratory before being exported, the government […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, which was released in January this year, will be screened at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra. Interestingly, the two-part documentary series, which faced plenty of criticism from government sympathisers, will be screened at the same time when Modi is scheduled to visit the country on […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: A court in India has summoned the BBC in a defamation complaint involving its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, local media reported. The British broadcaster was served a summons by the Delhi High Court on Monday for a documentary film that criticized Modi’s handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which […]
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Sat 20 May 2023: Three days before the G20 tourism working group meeting begins in Srinagar on Monday, three countries – China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia – had not registered till Friday. A PTI report from Beijing quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin as saying: “China firmly opposes holding any form of G20 meetings […]
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Sadae Kasaoka shows pictures that students drew of her recollection of what happened in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 [Laura Goehler/Al Jazeera] Fri 19 May 2023: As the G7 summit takes place in Japan, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb caution leaders about the human cost of nuclear weapons. Hiroshima, Japan – “It looked like […]
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Fri 19 May 2023: Kabir has been associated with Taliban leadership since 2006, when Mullah Omar appointed him as a military commander. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have appointed Maulvi Abdul Kabir, who played a key role in the 2020 Doha Agreement with the United States, as the country’s new caretaker prime minister, a senior official of […]
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