Tue 11 May 2021: The United States urges the Taliban to extend its short-term ceasefire currently in place in Afghanistan, US State Department spokesperson Ned price said on Monday. “We urge the Taliban to extend the ceasefire and order a significant reduction in violence,” Price said in a press briefing. The Taliban declared a three-day […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: A judge on Monday (May 10) ordered Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to appear in person in court for the first time on May 24, her lawyer said, after weeks of delays in her case. The Nobel laureate has not been publicly seen since she was detained in a […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: The Islamic State group may be behind the recent bombing of a girls’ school in the Afghan capital Kabul, State Department spokesperson Ned price said on Monday. “The circumstances of the bombing over the weekend, they are not yet crystal clear . .. there are some indications this may have been […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Dozens of decomposed bodies were seen floating in Ganga river in Bihar’s Buxar district on Monday morning. The bloated bodies later piled up on the banks of the river in Chausa, a village located about 11 km from Buxar city, on Bihar’s border with Uttar Pradesh. Dead bodies found floating […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Nepal President K P Sharma Oli Monday prorogued the country’s Parliament after the government headed by Prime Minister K P Oli lost a vote of confidence following several months of bickering among factions within the ruling party. At least 28 dissidents from the ruling Nepal Communist Party – Unified Marxist Leninist […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Beijing: A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a “new era of genetic weapons” that could be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed, reported Weekend Australian. The paper titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now spreading fast in rural areas, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that not only cities, villages too are also left at the mercy of God. Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader also cited a media report about the rapid surge […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: The Maldives police said on Sunday that they had arrested a third person in connection with the attack on parliament speaker and former president Mohamed Nasheed. The first two suspects were arrested as part of the probe into the incident on Saturday. Police say they now have in their custody three […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: COVID-19 deaths in India could potentially reach a “staggering” one million by August 1 this year, an editorial published in medical journal the Lancet said citing an estimate by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – an independent global health research centre of the University of Washington. “The Institute for Health Metrics and […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, which said most parts had burned up on reentry. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but state media reported that debris landed just west […]
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