On Monday, Time magazine named two prominent Muslim women, President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Afghan writer Hoda Khamosh, to its list of the 100 most influential people in 2022. Samia Suluhu Hassan 62-year-old Samia Suluhu Hassan is a Tanzanian politician who is serving as the sixth and current president of Tanzania. She has given Tanzania […]
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Tue 24 May 2022: The US is “playing with fire,” according to the Chinese State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, following President Joe Biden’s pledge to defend the self-ruled island if Beijing moves to seize control, state media Xinhua reported. According to Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the council, which is sometimes referred to as China’s […]
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Congress workers protest outside the Ministry of Petroleum in New Delhi against the rising prices of petrol, diesel and LPG gas cylinders- March 02-2021 Mon 23 May 2022: In an effort to insulate consumers from rising prices amid high inflation, India has proposed a series of modifications to the tax structure imposed on essential items. […]
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Sun 22 May 2022: Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has called for a peaceful march on Islamabad on May 25th to demand new elections. Khan, who had been Prime Minister for over three and a half years, was deposed in April by an alliance of all major political parties in parliament following a no-confidence […]
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Sun 22 May 2022: A campaign by the Hindu right-wing groups to claim Mughal era monuments and historic mosques has raised a wave of concern among minorities, historians, and archaeologists across India. Recently a functionary of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajneesh Singh approached a court requesting a directive to the Archaeological Survey of […]
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Sun 22 May 2022: Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, officials have said. In Bangladesh, about two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country’s northeast for nearly two decades while nearly one million people have been […]
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Sat 21 May 2022: Pakistani anti-corruption investigators arrested Shireen Mazari, the country’s former human rights minister, on Saturday. Mazari, a senior member of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was arrested outside her Islamabad home. She is accused of illegally obtaining land in her hometown of Rajanpur in Punjab’s northeastern region, according to […]
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Sat 21 May 2022: The US is “deeply concerned” about UN human rights leader Michelle Bachelet’s impending visit to China, according to the State Department, based on its understanding of the restrictions she would face there. UN RIGHTS CHIEF VISITS CHINA BEGINNING ON MONDAY, INCLUDING XINJIANG Department spokesman Ned Price during a press briefing called for Bachelet […]
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Fri 20 May 2022: According to her office, the UN human rights chief will begin her long-awaited journey to China on Monday, including a stop in the Xinjiang province, where authorities are accused of grave human rights breaches. Michelle Bachelet will visit China’s far-western Xinjiang region next week, after years of asking “meaningful and unfettered” […]
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Fri 20 May 2022: The European Commission stated on Friday that the Rohingya community will receive an additional €22 million ($23.3 million) in humanitarian aid. The help will go to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and their host communities, as well as displaced Rohingya and other conflict-affected persons in Myanmar, according to a statement from the […]
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