Thu 22 July 2021: New Delhi, India – Police and civil authorities in the Indian capital have demolished a makeshift mosque in a Rohingya camp, say the refugees, weeks after a massive fire had engulfed the settlement. The mosque, made up of tarpaulin sheets and bamboo sticks, was bulldozed at about 7am local time (01:30 GMT) […]
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Thu 22 July 2021: In an interview, Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid says Ankara should help rebuild and unite Afghanistan after decades of war and pull its armed forces out How much of Afghanistan’s total area do you control? We control 85 per cent of Afghan land. Is it true that Kabul regained control over areas […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: A data leak has revealed that one number once used by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was in a list of thousands of people potentially targeted for surveillance through phones by Isreali spyware company NSO Group, media reports said. “The numbers of Imran Khan and several of his ambassadors in India […]
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Wed 21 July 2021: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says event a ‘celebration of hope’ and reminder that only working together can end pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has thrown his weight behind the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, even as a surge in the Delta variant drives a resurgence of COVID-19 […]
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Tue 20 July 2021: India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the south Asian country. Most experts believe India’s official toll of more than 414,000 […]
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Tue 20 July 2021: Businessman, actor Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra has been arrested by Mumbai Police’s crime branch on Monday in a case related to creation of pornographic films and publishing them through some apps. Speaking on Kundra’s arrest, Mumbai police said that he appears to be the key conspirator and that they have […]
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Mon 19 July 2021: The delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) have agreed to allow safe access to vaccines for people across the country, and to ensure safety for medical workers giving the shots, a communique released after the two-day talks in Qatar says. “The sides agreed that because […]
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Mon 19 July 2021: Turkey intends to hold negotiations with the Taliban movement regarding its possible military presence in Afghanistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Earlier this summer, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said no final decision was made yet on Ankara’s possible assistance with securing the Kabul airport after the US troops […]
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Mon 19 July 2021: Multiple Chinese scientists have come to the conclusion that the novel coronavirus has natural origins and could not have been artificially created, a new report published by the Science China Life Sciences academic journal says. “In the comparison with SARS-CoVof 2003, SARS-CoV-2 is extremely well adapted to the human populations and […]
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Mon 19 July 2021: The latest round of intra-Afghan negotiations failed to deliver a breakthrough, with the Afghan government and the Taliban vowing in a joint statement Sunday to meet again and expedite high-level peace talks in Doha, Qatar. The statement, issued after two days of talks, said the two sides also vowed to safeguard […]
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