Sat 10 July 2021: A 20-year-old Dalit man is pulled by his hair, elbowed, kicked, beaten with sticks in full public view by a group of people in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat district, show a set of disturbing videos. One person has been arrested in the case while police teams have been formed to find […]
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Sat 10 July 2021: The Biden administration on Friday added 14 Chinese companies and other entities to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang. The Commerce Department said the companies had been “implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass detention, […]
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Fri 09 July 2021: Prominent religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani said he escaped unharmed after a man pulled a knife on him at the Darul Uloom Korangi seminary during the early hours of Thursday morning. Mufti Usmani — in an audio message — confirmed that the incident had taken place and said that the suspect […]
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Fri 09 July 2021: President Joe Biden on Thursday said the US military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31, saying “speed is safety” as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build,” Biden said in a speech to update his administration’s ongoing efforts to […]
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Thu 08 July 2021: Afghanistan enters a critical phase as US and NATO troops withdraw from the country. TRT World speaks to Suhail Shaheen, spokesperson and member of the Taliban negotiating team. ———————————————————————————————————————- FOLLOW INDEPENDENT PRESS: TWITTER (CLICK HERE) https://twitter.com/IpIndependent FACEBOOK (CLICK HERE) https://web.facebook.com/ipindependent Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Thu 08 July 2021: Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin met on Wednesday (July 7) to discuss a plan for Ankara to operate and guard Afghanistan’s Kabul airport after NATO forces withdrawal from the country, Reuters reported. Last month, Turkey offered to run the airport after NATO forces pull out of Afghanistan this […]
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Thu 08 July 2021: All British troops are returning to the United Kingdom from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, adding that the majority of personnel is already withdrawn, , ending its official role in a two-decades long conflict amid fears the departure of foreign soldiers could lead to a chaotic civil war. […]
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Thu 08 July 2021: Most Pakistanis expressed supportive sentiments towards their Indian neighbours when the latter was reeling under a severe second Covid-19 wave, said an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven study. The research focused on tweets expressing kindness, empathy and solidarity. It found out that most tweets that were posted by Pakistani citizens between 21 April […]
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Thu 08 July 2021: China urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday to pay attention to Canada’s severe violation of human rights of indigenous women and children. “Simply apologizing is not enough, and Canada must take actual actions to correct its mistakes,” Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the UN in […]
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Wed 07 July 2021: All the districts of the Badghis province have fallen to Taliban after heavy conflicts between the Taliban fighters and government forces, khaama Press News Agency Reported. People representative from Badghis province in parliament confirms that the province’s central city Qala-e-naw falls to Taliban fighters Tuesday noon after the militants toppled several […]
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