Sun 19 February 2023: Afghanistan’s interim government has decided to take control of the bases of the US-led foreign forces across the country “with an intention” to convert them into special economic zones, Anadolu reports. The decision was taken during a meeting of the country’s Economic Commission with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the deputy premier […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: A tennis journey lasting 30 years comes to an end in Dubai this week, with the Indian star playing her last tournament. For Sania Mirza, a tennis journey spanning 30 years that began on courts prepared from cow dung in south India is set to conclude in a tennis stadium nestled among […]
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Sun 19 February 2023: China warned the United States on Sunday it would “bear all the consequences” if it escalated the controversy over a Chinese balloon that the U.S. military shot down this month. Beijing will “follow through to the end” in the event “the U.S. insists on taking advantage of the issue”, the foreign ministry said in a statement. A U.S. […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: Three years after Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir, residents say they want more safeguards for land and livelihoods. On August 5, 2019, when Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir and turned into a federally governed territory, the streets in its main city – the Buddhist-majority Leh – erupted in jubilation. […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: A day after the burnt bodies of two Muslim men were found in a car in Haryana, a kidnapping case has been filed against five men, suspected to be cow vigilantes. Nasir, 25, and Junaid, 35, had been kidnapped from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district on Wednesday, their families alleged in their complaint to the […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding. The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the refugees […]
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People queueing to buy food at government-controlled prices in Islamabad – there are fears goods will cost more Credit: AFP Thu 16 February 2023: Measures proposed to secure crucial loan tranche include raising the country’s general sales tax by a percentage point to 18 percent. Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani government has tabled a 170 billion […]
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Thu 16 February 2023: In an effort to persuade US senators that the Chinese video-sharing software TikTok poses no security concern to the US, CEO Shou Zi Chew stated that TikTok is under no obligation to provide the Chinese government with access to the data of US users. “Even if they (Chinese government) did (ask […]
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Thu 16 February 2023: An under-construction mosque, located near the Balkhandi Naka area in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh was vandalised by members of right-wing organisations – Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) – on Wednesday. Hindutva mob vandalise mosque in India’s Uttar Pradesh, claiming illegal construction.#India #Islamophobia_in_india #Islam pic.twitter.com/7YLpFMElLE — INDEPENDENT PRESS […]
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Tue 14 February 2023: In order to support the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh’s remote island of Bhasan Char and the southern border region of Cox’s Bazar, Japan has agreed to provide $5.7 million to UNICEF, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a UNICEF statement on Tuesday, an exchange of notes was signed by […]
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