Sat 08 October 2022: FIFA will not penalize Indonesia for the use of tear gas by the police inside a crowded soccer stadium, which caused a crush and stampede that claimed 131 lives, including 17 children. The Under-20 World Cup, which will feature 24 nations from five continents, will continue to be held in Indonesia, […]
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Fri 07 October 2022: The UN Human Rights Council has voted not to debate the treatment of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang even after the UN’s human rights office concluded the scale of the alleged abuses there may amount to “crimes against humanity“. The motion for a […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: A police spokesperson confirmed that a mass shooting at a daycare for children in a province in northeastern Thailand left more than 30 people dead. The deputy police commissioner, Maj Gen Paisan Leusomboon, told the Thai channel PPTV HD 36 that the perpetrator was a former police officer who had just […]
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Wed 05 October 2022: Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has blamed the recent riots in Leicester following an India-Pakistan cricket match on uncontrolled migration into the UK and the failure of newcomers to integrate. In her first speech since being appointed home minister at the Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday evening, […]
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Wed 05 October 2022: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war opened up an opportunity for China to expand its influence and lock down access to the country’s vast mineral deposits. It hasn’t worked out that way. More than a year after US troops left, Afghanistan’s economy is collapsing, 19 million people […]
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Tue 04 October 2022: In a new low, Indian police tied Muslim men to a pole and publicly flogged them with canes after they were arrested for allegedly throwing stones at a Hindu religious event, Navratri Garba, in Gujarat state. Viral videos show policemen in plain clothes were beating Muslim men with their hands tied. […]
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Tue 04 October 2022: Saudi Arabia has won the bid to host the Asian Winter Games in 2029 at its planned megacity, NEOM, making it the first Arab and Middle Eastern country set to do so. The development was announced by Saudi Sports Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, on Twitter, where he stated that […]
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Tue 04 October 2022: National power transmission grid failed at 2:05 pm — causing blackout across Bangladesh, except some parts of the north. According to officials at Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), the transmission line tripped somewhere in the eastern part of the country, especially districts on the […]
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Tue 04 October 2022: Islamabad, Pakistan – The United Nations has increased its aid appeal for Pakistan, where more than five million people are facing a severe food crisis in the wake of recent catastrophic floods. Nearly 1,700 people, including more than 600 children, lost their lives and a total 33 million people were affected after record-breaking […]
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Mon 03 October 2022: In one of the deadliest football disasters in history, at least 32 children died in Indonesia’s stadium crush, an official said on Monday as police moved to punish those to blame. In the tragic incident that occurred on Saturday night in Malang, police used tear gas to disperse a stampede in […]
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