Wed 18 January 2023: In spite of restrictions last month banning female workers in NGO’s, a number of aid organizations have resumed certain operations in Afghanistan after receiving assurances from Taliban authorities that women could work in fields like health (NGOs). This week, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children, and CARE announced that […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: Israeli company, Cognyte, which is traded on the NASDAQ, won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm, a month before the military coup in February 2021, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and Israeli Haaretz newspaper on Monday. The documents show that Cognyte won the tender in December 2020 to […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party government in the Indian state of Gujarat used bulldozers in several places and demolished six madrasas in Kutch area of the state. 36 commercial establishments were also demolished in the area. According to media reports, the bulldozers came into action in the border coastal area action plan. […]
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Tue 17 January 2023: For the first time in more than 60 years, China’s population has decreased, according to the official data. This is a momentous shift for the most populous country in the world, which now anticipates a prolonged period of population reduction. The 1.4 billion-people country has seen birth rates fall to record […]
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Mon 16 January 2023: India is hopeful that trade in rupees with Russia will pick up after the two countries spoke about facilitating transactions in local currencies, an Indian trade ministry official said. India has been exploring a rupee trade settlement mechanism with Russia soon after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February, but the countries have […]
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Mon 16 January 2023: A historical mosque located in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh was reportedly demolished on Sunday in order to “widen the road”. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s former chair of International Water Cooperation Ashok Swain shared a video of the mosque being bulldozed on his official Twitter handle. […]
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Sun 15 January 2023: Police in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, said on Sunday that an unidentified assailant shot and killed a former female lawmaker there along with her bodyguard. Mursal Nabizada was one of the few female lawmakers still residing in Kabul in August 2021, when the Taliban established their rule over the country. After the […]
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Sun 15 January 2023: The Afghan Taliban have welcomed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) recent meeting and declaration on Afghanistan, in which it expressed concern over restrictions on women, but asked the international community not to “interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.” In a statement on Thursday, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the group which seized power in the war-torn country in 2021, said: “The […]
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Sun 15 January 2023: At least 67 people were killed when a plane carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal on Sunday, the Himalayan country’s deadliest aviation disaster in three decades. 72 passengers were on board the flight, according to Yeti Airlines, which operated it. There were 68 passengers and 4 crew members. The foreign nationals […]
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Sat 14 January 2023: In response to accusations that it was hiding data, China has revealed roughly 60,000 fatalities among COVID patients since the beginning of December. The National Health Commission reported on Saturday that the “emergency peak” of COVID-19’s most recent surge appears to have passed. The death toll from December 8 through Thursday […]
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