Wed 23 February 2022: Finance chief admits businesses facing ‘intense pressure’ amid restrictions that have shut down much of the economy. Hong Kong, China – Hong Kong announced a HK$170 billion ($21.79bn) budget to boost its flailing economy on Wednesday, as the territory battles a fifth wave of coronavirus infections with its harshest pandemic restrictions yet. […]
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Tue 22 February 2022: UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said Tuesday. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, urged the Security Council to convene an […]
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Tue 22 February 2022: Social media giant Twitter has removed a cartoon by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that showed Muslim men in skull caps being hung by a noose. The party’s unit in western Gujarat state had posted the cartoon on its official social media account hailing a special court in the state […]
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Tue 22 February 2022: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, a chess grandmaster from India, has received praise for his surprise victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen in an online tournament. At the Airthings Masters rapid chess competition on Monday, Praggnanandhaa, 16, who became the youngest international master in history at the age of ten in 2016, defeated […]
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Mon 21 February 2022: A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by “charity train” from Turkiye to Afghanistan was delivered to the capital, Kabul, on Monday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Coordinated by Turkiye’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) and with the support of Turkish NGOs, medical aid packages were delivered to the […]
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Mon 21 February 2022: Large protest against #Karnataka #HijabBan happening right now in San Francisco Bay Area. #HijabRow pic.twitter.com/TvdU8jIaCt — Pieter Friedrich (@FriedrichPieter) February 21, 2022 Massive protest by Indian Americans and allies in Seattle, WA against #HijabBan in India’s Karnataka state pic.twitter.com/QuxF7hEGi6 — Indian American Muslim Council (@IAMCouncil) February 21, 2022 Let’s hear it […]
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Mon 21 February 2022: Vehicles were set on fire and isolated incidents of stone-pelting were reported as tension spread in Karnataka’s Shivamogga town over the murder of a member of right-wing outfit Bajrang Dal. Harsha, a 26-year-old Bajrang Dal member who worked as a tailor, was stabbed by unidentified persons around 9 pm last night. […]
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Mon 21 February 2022: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins hearings on Monday over Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought over the military’s brutal 2017 crackdown on the mostly Muslim Rohingya. The proceedings have been given added urgency and complicated by the coup that took place in Myanmar a little more than […]
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Sun 20 February 2022: To add to the series of protests across India and the world in the ongoing hijab row, Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka witnessed people marching in solidarity with Indian Muslim girls who are fighting for their right to wear the hijab in educational institutions. The protest in Dhaka held on Sunday, witnessed a […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: As many as 58 students at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district who had refused to remove their hijab and staged a demonstration against the government pre-university college administration were suspended, reported PTI. They were suspended on Friday and were told that they should not come to the college, a student told reporters. […]
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