Tue 22 June 2021: Indonesia’s most active volcano Merapi emitted hot clouds three times as far as 1,200 meters to the southeast and southwest, according to the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG) on Tuesday. The first and second hot clouds respectively rolled down the southeast at 3:37 a.m. for 115 seconds, and […]
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Tue 22 June 2021: Taliban fighters seized the town of Sher Khan Bandar in the Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan without resistance from the government troops, the local broadcaster Ariana news reported on Tuesday, citing security sources. Kunduz provincial council member Khaliddin Hakmi said the Taliban “captured Sher Khan Bandar and the town and all […]
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Mon 21 June 2021: Mohammad Umar Gautam (formerly Shyam Pratap Singh Gautam ) and a Muslim cleric Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi have been arrested by the UP Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad under the state’s draconian anti-conversion law. An FIR has been lodged at the Gomtinagar police station Lucknow, which says that the clerics were involved in the conversion […]
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Mon 21 June 2021: Senior journalist Rana Ayyub is one of the individuals booked by the UP Police for sharing a video clip with claim that an elderly man was beaten and his beard was cut off on religious lines in Loni area in the state’s Ghaziabad district. Today, the Bombay High Court granted her […]
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Mon 21 June 2021: Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar said that his country welcomes and supports more Turkish involvement, including in protecting the Kabul airport after the US withdrawal. Earlier in June, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey was planning to guard the Kabul airport after the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. The […]
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Sun 20 June 2021: Sri Lanka’s military launched an investigation Sunday after social media posts showed soldiers forcing minority Muslims to kneel on the streets as a punishment for flouting lockdown rules. Armed troops ordered Muslim civilians to raise their hands in the air while kneeling on a road in the town of Eravur, about 300 […]
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Sun 20 June 2021: India has registered 58,419 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the lowest daily increase in 81 days, according to the Union health ministry. Sunday’s cases are the lowest since March 30, when 56,211 people were detected Covid-19 positive. India remains second only to the US in terms of […]
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Sun 20 June 2021: The number of COVID-19 jabs administered in China has passed the one billion mark, health officials said Sunday, more than a third of the doses given worldwide. The announcement by the National Health Commission comes after the number of shots administered globally surpassed 2.5 billion on Friday, according to an AFP […]
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Sun 20 June 2021: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated that his country will not allow the US to carry out counter-terrorism operations following the latter’s scheduled pullout from neighboring Afghanistan, state-run media said. “Absolutely not. There is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory […]
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Sat 19 June 2021: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani replaced two top ministers charged with managing the country’s faltering security Saturday, as the Taliban pressed on with their campaign to capture new territory in fierce battles with government forces. The shake-up of the defense and interior ministry portfolios comes as violence surges and peace talks remain […]
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