Mon 19 June 2023: Bangladesh has reportedly filed a formal request to join the BRICS economic bloc, making it the most recent nation to indicate interest in doing so. This was revealed in reports on Monday. This issue is anticipated to be addressed at the BRICS summit, which will be held in South Africa in […]
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Mon 19 June 2023: India’s largest socio-religious Muslim organisation, on Monday, rejected the government’s move to seek public and religious organisations’ views on the Uniform Civil Code, which meant that all people, regardless of region or religion, would be subject to the same set of civil laws, Anadolu Agency reports. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said in a statement […]
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Pakistani Hassan Ali, who says his brother Fahad, 21, was onboard a boat with migrants that capsized at open sea off Greece, shows a photo of his brother in front of a migrant camp in Malakasa, near Athens, Greece, June 16, 2023. — Reuters Mon 19 June 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is observing a […]
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Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, steps on board a C-17 transport plane as the last U.S. service member to leave Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph taken using night vision optics.Jack Holt / US Central Command via Reuters. Sun 18 June 2023: Afghanistan has declared a […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: The U.N. children’s agency said it was holding discussions with the Taliban officials over “timelines and practicalities” for a possible required handover of its education programmes and that classes would continue in the meantime, Reuters reported. Aid officials say that the Taliban had signalled international organisations could no longer be involved […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: A heart-wrenching video from Gujarat is fast going viral on social media, in which a group of men can be seen being brutally beaten with whips by two men, said to be from the police department. is of This video is said to be from Junagadh area where it has come […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing on Sunday (June 17), nearly five months after Washington’s ties with world’s second biggest economy deteriorated over a Chinese spy balloon and growing chip wars. Blinken’s visit comes ahead of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States, with […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: If Bali loses hosting rights for the Olympic-recognised event, it could hurt the country’s standing, analysts warn. Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia – While the people of Bali are famed for their tolerance and hospitality, a foreign policy impasse between Indonesia and Israel dating back to the 1940s is threatening to derail a little-known […]
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Sat 17 June 2023: The Committee to Protect Journalists says it expects the US to make India’s media crackdown ‘a core element of discussions’. A prominent press watchdog says the United States government should urge Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to end what it called a crackdown on media as it demanded the release of […]
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Fri 16 June 2023: New Delhi: Calling for the immediate release of Kashmiri human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) described his detention “arbitrary” and appealed to the Indian authorities to provide him with an “enforceable right to compensation and other reparations”. Parvez, who is associated with various civil society organisations in […]
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