Mon 25 December 2022: More people were evacuated Monday from nearby villages, following the eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia, with officials warning of the dangers of cooling lava, despite the volcano’s reduced activity. More than 2,400 villagers have now fled their homes and taken shelter in 11 evacuation centres after the highest mountain on […]
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Sun 04 December 2022: On early Sunday, Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island of Java erupted, spewing large gas clouds and a lava river. According to the country’s disaster mitigation agency, this prompted authorities to issue the highest level of warning and begin the evacuation of at least 93 residents of East […]
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Sat 03 December 2022: The Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s visit to Saudi Arabia and subsequently his trip to Makkah for performing Umrah became the topic of most Indians not only in Saudi Arabia but also back home in India. Since the actor’s presence in Saudi Arabia is known to the public, some Muslims have […]
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Fri 02 December 2022: One of India’s most popular TV journalists quits the network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon considered close to the BJP. The resignation of one of India’s most popular TV journalists from a network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon close to the ruling party has sparked concerns over press freedom […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: Saudi Arabia is to host a Chinese-Arab summit on 9 December, which will coincide with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kingdom, Reuters reported yesterday, citing three Arab diplomats. A Chinese delegation led by Xi is scheduled to arrive in Riyadh on 7 December, said two of the diplomats, and a fourth […]
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Wed 30 November 2022: New Delhi: Bilkis Bano on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging the premature release of 11 men convicted of gangraping her in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Bilkis Bano filed a review plea against the May order of the Supreme Court which allowed the Gujarat government to apply the 1992 Remission Rules to […]
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Tue 29 November 2022: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of people in Bangladesh lost their homes and means of support this year as a result of climate change, which is fueling an uncontrollable internal migration, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the WHO’s assessment of the current situation in the country of about […]
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Tue 29 November 2022: The comments of an Israeli filmmaker heading the Indian Film Festival jury, calling ‘The Kashmir Files’ “vulgar and propaganda”, have sparked a big row. The festival jury has said its chief Nadav Lapid’s remarks are “completely his personal opinion”. Nadav Lapid, jury chief at the International Film Festival India (IFFI), criticised […]
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Tue 29 November 2022: British business minister Grant Shapps said on Monday there was no excuse for media covering protests to be beaten by police, after the BBC said Chinese police had assaulted and detained one of its journalists in Shanghai. “There can be absolutely no excuse whatsoever for journalists who are simply covering the protests going on, for being beaten by […]
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Mon 28 November 2022: Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese internet users and government censors are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game to control the narrative around the country’s anti-“zero COVID” protests. Protests began in Urumqi, the capital of the far-western Xinjiang region, on […]
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