Sun 08 January 2023: If it seems like Groundhog Day in Afghanistan, you could be right. The ruling Taliban seems to have made little change to its ideology and is even further away from the promises it made to improve women’s rights when its fighters entered Kabul unchallenged in August 2021. Girls’ schools have been […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: Following the government’s decision to relax Covid regulations, more top Chinese engineers and scientists have passed away in less than a month than they usually do in a year, according to a prestigious Chinese scientific body. Twenty leading engineers and scientists of the Chinese academy of Engineering have died less in […]
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Sat 07 January 2023: After large cracks appeared in their homes, residents of Joshimath, Uttarakhand state, are demanding evacuation and rehabilitation. Fears among residents who have been camping out in the cold as around 600 houses and other structures have developed cracks due to the soil shifting. More than 3,000 people are affected, the municipality […]
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Fri 06 January 2023: The Taliban administration has denounced Britain’s Prince Harry for his admission of killing 25 people while on military duty in Afghanistan, and a senior Afghan official has accused the royal of killing innocent civilians. “We checked and found that the days on which Prince Harry is mentioning the killing of 25 mujaheddin, we […]
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Fri 06 January 2023: In an effort to boost revenue, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan inked its first foreign deal on Thursday to extract oil from the northern Amu Darya basin. In a ceremony held in the capital Kabul on Thursday, acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Sheikh Shahabuddin Delawar and a representative of the […]
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Fri 06 January 2023: “My number is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me,” he wrote. In a soon-to-be-published autobiography, Prince Harry has admitted to murdering 25 people in Afghanistan while operating an Apache helicopter, according to the British media. Harry, the duke of Sussex, served […]
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Thu 05 January 2023: India’s Supreme Court has put on hold the demolition of more than 4,000 homes that were allegedly encroaching on land belonging to the railways in Haldwani town in the northern state of Uttarakhand. “There cannot be uprooting of 50,000 people overnight. There has to be segregation of people who have no […]
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Thu 05 January 2023: EU countries are “strongly encouraged” to demand Covid tests from passengers coming from China, a crisis meeting of European Union experts decided Wednesday. The meeting also recommended that passengers to and from China wear face masks, that EU countries conduct random tests on arrivals and test wastewater from flights from China, according to a statement […]
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Wed 04 January 2023: The World Health Organization is “concerned” about the surge in COVID-19 infections in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, urging Beijing again to deliver rapid and regular data on hospitalisation and death there. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more […]
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Wed 04 January 2023: A former General Electric engineer has been sentenced to two years in prison in the United States for conspiring to steal trade secrets to benefit China. Xiaoqing Zheng, who worked as an engineer specialising in turbine sealing technology at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, conspired to steal trade secrets related […]
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