Sat 10 December 2022: U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was determined to engage with Beijing over the findings of a report issued by his predecessor that said China‘s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity. Grappling with the human rights record of powerful ‘P5’ Security Council member China is one of the […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: According to Yani Ajat Hermawan, a spokesperson of the Aviation Union, more than 40 private planes are anticipated to fly to Indonesia for the wedding of the president’s son, Kaesang Pangarep, but air communication is expected to stay smooth. Indonesian social media buzzed with excitement on Friday as President Joko Widodo’s youngest son, Kaesang […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: About 200 mostly Muslim Rohingya have been drifting for more than a week in the Andaman Sea after their boat broke down. The United Nations Refugee Agency has urged countries in Southeast Asia to rescue some 200 Rohingya refugees whose unseaworthy boat has been reported drifting in the Andaman Sea. The […]
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Fri 09 December 2022: The BJP retained its 27-year control of Gujarat with a commanding election victory but lost power in Himachal Pradesh. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has scored a landslide victory in the western state of Gujarat, election results showed on Thursday, in a strong performance ahead of […]
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Wed 07 December 2022: Case relates to allegations that Khan bought gifts given by foreign dignitaries from the state depository but did not disclose them before the poll panel. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s election commission has initiated a process to remove former Prime Minister Imran Khan as the chairman of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party over […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a two-day visit that will include meetings with several Arab leaders, the Saudi state news agency, SPA reported on Tuesday. The visit is aimed at developing economic ties and strengthening what SPA described as a “strategic partnership” between China and Saudi Arabia, its main oil […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: New Delhi: The rise of Hindutva and Ram temple politics in the 1980s and 1990s led to the demolition of the Babri Mosque which stood at the spot where the Sangh parivar claimed that the Hindu community believed that Ram was born. The Wire takes a look at the personalities and the events […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Indonesia has passed a new Criminal Code that makes sex outside of marriage and cohabitation illegal. The new laws apply to both Indonesians and foreigners and reinstate a ban on insulting the president, state institutions, or Pancasila, Indonesia’s national ideology. The new criminal code, which was approved unanimously by parliament on […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: About 310,000 chickens will be culled in central Aichi Prefecture in Japan due to an outbreak of bird flu, the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday. Local authorities say this is the first such outbreak in the past 11 years. On Sunday, workers at a farm in Aichi discovered an unusually […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: ‘Teacher Li’ has amassed more than 800,000 followers with his posts highlighting COVID-related unrest in China Taipei, Taiwan – As China faced its biggest protests in a generation last month, one Twitter account played an outsized role in taking protesters’ message beyond the Great Firewall to the outside world. “Teacher Li is […]
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