Thu 22 April 2021: Malaysia has issued $800 million worth of 10-year trust certificates, billed as the world’s first sovereign U.S. dollar sustainability sukuk as the proceeds will be used exclusively for green projects, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In addition, the Southeast Asian nation also issued $500 million 30-year trust certificates, the ministry […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their allies in the past 100 years. The Taliban, though, will be celebrating what they see as a historic victory when NATO forces […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: India has registered 314,835 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, the national Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The total number of those who tested positive for the coronavirus in India has reached 15,930,965, according to the ministry. Within the same period of time, […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: Twenty-two COVID-19 patients died in Maharashtra’s Nashik today after an oxygen tanker leaked outside a hospital, disrupting supply to patients for around 30 minutes. “As per current information, 22 people have died due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital,” district collector Suraj Mandhare told NDTV. […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: The Taliban’s refusal to participate in the international conference on Afghanistan in Istanbul does not mean that the intra-Afghan negotiations stalled, the movement continues contacts with the government, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Sputnik in an interview. Istanbul was scheduled to host a conference with participation of the Afghan government and […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: The United Nations rights envoy on Wednesday drew attention to the fact that almost a quarter of a million people have been displaced by the military junta in Myanmar as the country’s new leaders for months have continued a brutal crackdown on anti-coup protesters killing, beating and torturing them. The military […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: While the year 2020 witnessed an overall decline in the number of global death penalties, some countries increased the number of executions they carried out. In its annual global review of the death penalty (PDF), Amnesty International said that the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus pandemic contributed to a trend of decline in […]
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Wed 21 April 2021: India’s daily COVID-19 cases reached a new high early Wednesday after the country registered over 295,000 infections and more than 2,000 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry figures. Healthcare and other essential services across India are close to collapse as a second coronavirus wave that started in mid-March tears […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: Malaysian opposition lawmakers led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad submitted a petition to the country’s king on Tuesday seeking an end to a coronavirus emergency, saying it had transformed the country into a “dictatorship”. The king approved Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s plan for an emergency in early January to curb […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: After violent protests across the country, Pakistan government will ask parliament to vote on whether to expel the French envoy over offensive caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad published in France last year, the interior minister said. The Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) group has waged an anti-France campaign ever since Macron vehemently supported […]
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