Tue 01 November 2022: On Monday, fifty countries endorsed a statement that was read during a UN debate and denounced the “severe and systematic” human rights abuses occurring in China’s Xinjiang region. The statement, read out by Canada during a debate of the UN General Assembly Third Committee, which deals with human rights, said, “We […]
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Mon 31 October 2022: As the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) march enters its fourth day, party chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that after seeing the “revolution” happening in the country, the only question that remains is whether it will come through the “ballot” or “bloodshed”. Taking to Twitter, the PTI chairman shared visuals […]
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Mon 31 October 2022: As rescuers worked through the night searching the Machhu River for survivors, the dead toll from the collapse of a colonial-era suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state has increased to 132, according to officials. The number of fatalities increased from 68 on Sunday to 132 early on Monday, according to […]
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Sun 30 October 2022: At least 60 people were killed and dozens injured, when a suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state collapsed, plunging hundreds of people into the water below. More than 400 people were on the bridge, over the Machhu River in the town of Morbi on Sunday, at the time of the […]
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Sun 30 October 2022: Authorities in Hong Kong announced on Saturday that they had seized a shipment of methamphetamine coming from Mexico that was worth roughly 1.1 billion Hong Kong dollars ($140 million). A record-breaking 1.8 tonnes of liquid meth concealed in cartons of coconut water was discovered by customs officers while being transported to […]
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Protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, demanding closure of Guantanamo bay detention camp. Jan 11, 2017 Sun 30 October 2022: A 74-year-old Pakistani national has returned home after spending almost two decades without charge in the notorious US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family yesterday after spending […]
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Sun 30 October 2022: President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea has announced a period of national mourning following a fatal Halloween crush in Seoul, where grieving family members went to the city’s hospitals in search of their lost loved ones. In a statement released hours after 151 people died in a stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Imran Khan, a former Pakistani prime minister, started a “long march” on the country’s capital Islamabad to urge for early elections, applying more pressure to an administration. Despite being removed from government in April by a no-confidence vote following defections by several of his coalition partners, the former international cricket player […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: The match fee for men’s and women’s cricketers (contracted) would be the same, according to a major statement made by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday. In many ways, the choice to pay female cricketers the same amount as male cricketers for a match was a […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: A pro-China online influence campaign is seeking to discredit the United States’ democracy and discourage citizens from voting in the upcoming midterm elections, according to cybersecurity researchers. The influence campaign, dubbed DRAGONBRIDGE, aims to “sow division both between the US and its allies and within the US political system itself”, including […]
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