M0n 29 August 2022: Pope Francis Sunday called for international cooperation to help Pakistan which is battered by heavy monsoon rains and massive floods. “I pray for the numerous victims, for the wounded and those forced from their homes, and that international solidarity might be prompt and generous,” the pontiff said in a statement issued […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: Japan will use its Security Council position to lobby for an African seat at the United Nations. “Japan reiterates its determination to redress the historical injustice against Africa of not being represented through a permanent membership on the Security Council,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the Tokyo International Conference on African […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: It has been a year since US troops abandoned their posts in Afghanistan, handing the country over to the Taliban. US forces, its allies, and countless other dependents were left battling Taliban during the complex withdrawal. A documentary has now revealed that a US Army colonel prevented the evacuation of several […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: Some 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in India where fears are growing as calls for deportations to Myanmar increase. New Delhi, India – On the fifth anniversary of the start of military atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar, those of them living in India find themselves caught in a web of uncertainty and fear as […]
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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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