Tue 07 February 2023: Allegations of stock market manipulation and fraud have halved the net worth of Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, one of the wealthiest people in the world, in less than two weeks and wiped more than $110bn from his listed firms in India. With investor confidence shaken, legislators have demanded an investigation into […]
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Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, met today with Dr. Mutlaq bin Majid Al-Qahtani, Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sun 05 February 2023: An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met with the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, […]
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Sun 05 February 2023: Pervez Musharraf, a former president and retired general, died on Sunday after a protracted struggle with the rare disease amyloidosis. He was 79. In a statement issued immediately after his demise, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and all the services chiefs have […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Beijing played down news about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelling his planned trip to China amid the row over a wayward Chinese balloon spotted in United States airspace. In a statement issued on Saturday morning, Chinese Foreign Ministry said they respect the decision made by the US, RIA Novosti […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Financial contagion fears spread in India on Friday as Adani Group’s crisis worsened, with ratings agency Moody’s warning the conglomerate may struggle to raise capital and S&P cutting the outlook on two of its businesses. Chaotic scenes in both houses of India’s parliament led to their adjournment on Friday as some […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Pakistan‘s telecommunications regulatory authority has blocked the online international encyclopaedia service for publishing and failing to remove blasphemous content, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after it failed to meet a 48-hour deadline set on Wednesday to remove the sacrilegious content. “Yes, we blocked the service […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: The Chinese spy balloon flying above the United States isn’t the only one that should not be there. News outlets in Costa Rica reported Thursday that a similar-looking aircraft hovered above the country’s western coast, raising suspicions that the balloon over Montana wasn’t alone in the sky. It is unclear exactly which […]
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Fri 03 February 2023: China’s foreign ministry has expressed regret over what it called a civilian balloon straying into United States airspace. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said the balloon suspected by the US of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for research, mainly for meteorological purposes. The statement said the airship […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: The value of Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has lost $100 billion due to the stock market collapse, and shares of his companies continued to decline on Thursday. This was despite the Indian billionaire’s efforts to calm his anxious investors, CNN reported. “For me, the interest of my investors is paramount and everything […]
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Thu 02 February 2023: Canada’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China but are now facing pressure to return. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang territory as […]
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