Sat 27 August 2022: A United States judge has recommended that victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks not be allowed to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank to satisfy court judgements they obtained against the Taliban. After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, governments and international institutions […]
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Fri 26 August 2022: Peiter Zatko’s allegations raise questions about big tech’s responsibility towards users in authoritarian countries. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s claims that the social media giant has endangered users in China have raised questions about big tech’s responsibility to protect dissidents from state persecution. Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, […]
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Fri 26 August 2022: The Taliban declared on Thursday that they had not found body of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s and were still conducting investigations after the US claimed he had been killed in an airstrike in Kabul last month. After Osama bin Laden’s murder, Zawahiri, an Egyptian who had served as both his personal physician and […]
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Thu 25 August 2022: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Rohingya people cannot be guaranteed safety in Myanmar, advocates say, where the government has been accused of decades of abuse that has left the long-persecuted ethnic minority largely stateless. For the nearly one million Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee settlement in neighbouring Bangladesh, conditions are squalid and what limited […]
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Thu 25 August 2022: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated on Thursday that she intends to release a long-awaited report on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang by the conclusion of her four-year tenure next week. Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s outgoing president, has faced harsh criticism from civil society for being too […]
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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamed Al Thani with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Doha. Thu 25 August 2022: The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has announced it aims to spend $3bn on various commercial and investment sectors in Pakistan, which is currently facing a dire economic crisis, according to a statement released by Qatar’s […]
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Wed 24 August 2022: Imran Khan’s supporters rally behind him over the government’s actions against the cricketing icon-turned-politician. Islamabad, Pakistan – As legal cases mount against former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, his supporters have expressed anger over the government’s actions. Khan, 69, came under pressure last week after he was booked under anti-terrorism laws for “threatening” senior police officials […]
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Wed 24 August 2022: Hundreds of Afghan refugees and migrants held a protest in the UAE where they have been living in limbo since they were evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021. On Monday and Tuesday demonstrators carried banners and called for reprieve inside an Abu Dhabi facility, according to Reuters, citing two Afghans […]
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Wed 24 August 2022: Schools in Bangladesh will close an extra day each week, while government offices and banks will cut their workdays by an hour to reduce electricity use in response to rising fuel prices and the impact of the Ukraine war. The new hours go into effect on Wednesday. Most schools in Bangladesh […]
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Wed 24 August 2022: Britain’s prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak said he wants to change the UK-India relationship to make it a more two-way exchange that opens up easy access to UK students and companies in India. During a campaign hustings event hosted by the Conservative Friends of India (CFIN) diaspora organisation in north London […]
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