Sat 30 January 2021: The Taliban in Afghanistan rejected on Friday accusations by the US Pentagon that it has been violating their peace accord and continued to kill Afghan security forces and civilians. The group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said in a statement that the Taliban is fully committed to all clauses of the Doha agreement […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: China on Friday said it will “no longer recognise” the British National (Overseas) passport for Hong Kongers, as Britain prepares to offer millions of former colonial subjects a way to escape Beijing’s crackdown on dissent. “China will no longer recognize so-called BNO passports as valid travel documents and identity certificates, starting […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: The US has said that it is carefully reviewing a report from the UN on Sri Lanka’s human rights situation which highlights worrying trends such as deepening impunity, increasing militarisation of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric and intimidation of the civil society over the past year. The report urges enhanced monitoring and […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday said he will begin an indefinite fast at his hometown in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar from January 30. He has also urged his supporters to protest from their respective locations. “I have been agitating for important demands of farmers for the last four years. It seems […]
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Thu 28 January 2021: In a gruesome and shocking crime, a highly educated but extremely superstitious couple allegedly murdered their own two daughters in India, hoping to revive them within hours with the help of powers from beyond. Indian police were shocked when they stepped into the crime scene and found the two victims lying […]
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Thu 28 January 2021: A major terror attack has been foiled in Singapore as a 16-year-boy planning to attack two mosques and kill worshipers was arrested, an official statement said. The 16-year-old student, who is a Protestant Christian of Indian ethnicity, is the youngest to be detained under such laws, the Ministry of Home Affairs […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: Leaders of the protesting Indian farmers’ unions in India have condemned the violence during a “tractor rally” held by farmers in the Indian capital to demand repeal of new agricultural laws. But hundreds of protesters – some on horseback – broke away from approved routes, heading for government buildings in the […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: Urging respect for religious beliefs and health guidelines, the UK has said it has been raising the issue of forced cremation of COVID-19 victims’ bodies with authorities in Sri Lanka. Sarah Hulton, the UK ambassador to Sri Lanka, said in a tweet on Tuesday: “Families should be able to bury their […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Patients critically ill with Covid-19 are unable to find hospital beds as Indonesia crosses the one-million cases mark and medical staff struggle to keep up. Health experts in Indonesia have warned that hospitals in some areas are on the brink of collapse as the nation passed one million confirmed cases of coronavirus. In […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: The report stated that television news channels used derogatory and communal catchphrases dehumanising the Muslim community The vilification of India’s 195 million Muslims by the media after the Tablighi Jamaat meet in New Delhi in March 2020 amid the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has prompted a women’s collective to record and study […]
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