Tue 09 November 2021: Girls’ schools in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat have started courses for senior year students, according to media reports on Monday. Senior female students have been unable to attend school since the Taliban’s takeover in mid-August. According to the council, the decision was made after a month of discussions between the […]
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Tue 09 November 2021: World Food Programme on Tuesday claimed that serious food crisis was going to emerge within next few months in Afghanistan, urging the international community to play their role to save lives. Talking to an international news organization, an official of World Food Programme claimed that as many as 23 Million people […]
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Tue 09 November 2021: According to a source, a Myanmar junta court will rule next month on whether deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi violated coronavirus regulations during elections her party won last year. Myanmar has been in chaos since the military took over in February, sparking massive protests and a violent crackdown on dissent. […]
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Mon 08 November 2021: In a major overhaul on Sunday, the Taliban renamed all eight military corps of Afghanistan, and appointed key provincial governors in a bid to expedite governance efforts in the war-torn country. According to a decree by Yaqoob Mujahid, the acting defense minister, the Special Operations Corps in Kabul has been renamed […]
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Mon 08 November 2021: According to satellite photographs released by Maxar on Sunday, China’s military has built replicas in the shape of a US Navy aircraft carrier and other US warships in the Xinjiang desert, presumably as training targets. As tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan and the South China Sea remain […]
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Sun 07 November 2021: Akeel-laying ceremony beginning the construction of a MILGEM (National Ship) Ada class corvette tailored for the Pakistan Navy was held in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi Friday. The ceremony at the Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KSEW) – Pakistan Navy’s specialized shipbuilding division – was attended by Naval Chief […]
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Sun 07 November 2021: Turkey has reopened ten girls-only schools in Afghanistan, following talks with the Taliban to increase opportunity for women in the country. During a parliamentary meeting on Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that ten out of the 14 girls-only schools run by the Maarif Foundation – a Turkish state-funded organisation […]
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Sun 07 November 2021: This weekend, jubilant crowds pelted one other with fistfuls of cow dung as part of a traditional ritual in one village to mark the end of Diwali, India’s most important Hindu festival. Similar to Spain’s “La Tomatina” — the eccentric tomato-hurling celebration of the local fruit — residents of Gumatapura instead […]
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Sat 06 November 2021: According to Professor Russell Jeung, from San Francisco State University, that COVID-19 is far from the only threat posed by the global pandemic to Asian Americans and Asian people in the United States. Speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Diversity Madison’s Forum (UW-Madison). Russell Jeung, a co-founder of Stop Asian American American […]
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Sat 06 November 2021: A thick blanket of toxic smog gripped Delhi and nearby cities for a second consecutive day today as the national capital region continued to suffer from a post-Diwali hangover. At 8 am Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) was 449, which puts it in the ‘severe’ category. The AQI in the adjoining areas of Noida, […]
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