Sat 17 July 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said Friday he expects China to support the next phase of the scientific process to identify the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus, after the first part was criticized. Tedros Ghebreyesus addressed representatives of the health organization’s member states on the origins […]
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Sat 17 July 2021: Israeli intelligence software Cellebrite is supplying Vietnam digital surveillance tools which it has used to quash opposition, rights groups say. Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Vietnam’s Public Security Ministry, which is responsible for the police and internal security, has purchased the software. In a recent interview with the business daily Globes, the company’s CEO, Yossi […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: WhatsApp has blocked more than two million users in India in just a month for violating its rules, the United States-based company has disclosed in its first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules. Most of the users were blocked for spam message abuses. The Facebook-owned firm has put […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: Slaughter of cows, calves and camels on Muslim festival Eid al-Adha has been banned in the Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir. An order issued by the Animal Husbandry Department and addressed to the police chief for 97% Muslim Kashmir valley, and its divisional commissioner, has asked officials to stop “illegal killing/sacrifice” of […]
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Fri 16 July 2021: The number of coronavirus cases in India surpassed 31 million Friday as the country registered nearly 39,000 new infections in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Ministry, India on Friday, reported 38,949 new cases of COVID-19 and 542 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally […]
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Thu 15 July 2021: Millions of Chinese people face bans from public spaces including schools, hospitals and shopping malls unless they get a Covid-19 vaccine, under new edicts covering nearly two dozen cities and counties. The coronavirus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, but since then the country has […]
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Wed 14 July 2021: The United States will evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters and others who helped US forces in the country starting in late July, a senior administration official said Wednesday. “At President Biden’s direction, the United States is launching Operation Allies Refuge to support relocation flights for interested and eligible Afghan nationals and […]
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Wed 14 July 2021: Former US president George W. Bush on Wednesday criticized the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the Taliban. “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. This is a mistake… They’re just going to be left behind to be […]
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Tue 13 July 2021: France’s embassy in Kabul on Tuesday called on all French nationals who are currently in Afghanistan to leave, as heavy fighting is raging across the country. France will organize a special free-of-charge flight to Paris for its citizens in Afghanistan, which will depart from Kabul on July 17, the diplomatic mission […]
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Tue 13 July 2021: Myanmar’s junta authorities have slapped more corruption charges on Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, adding to an eclectic charge sheet that could see the Nobel laureate jailed for more than a decade. A mass uprising in Myanmar against the military’s February coup has been met with a brutal […]
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