Fri 27 November 2020: A video of a stray dog nibbling at the dead body of a girl inside an Uttar Pradesh government hospital in the state’s Sambhal district has caused widespread outrage. The disturbing incident took place on Thursday after the girl was brought to the hospital following a road accident; it’s not clear […]
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Wed 25 November 2020: India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party approved legislation in the country’s most populous state on Tuesday that means anyone who uses marriage to force someone to change religion will face a prison term of up to 10 years. The decree for the state of Uttar Pradesh was passed on Tuesday and follows a […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: An elephant who has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists around the world sets off for a new life in Cambodia this week. Dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” by his supporters, Kaavan has languished at a zoo in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad for more than 35 years. Officials […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: The United Kingdom’s government has begun discussions on whether it is appropriate for British judges to continue to sit on Hong Kong’s top court following China’s imposition of a national security law in the territory and the disqualification of elected legislators that Britain has said is in breach of international law. […]
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Tue 24 November 2020: Montreal (Canada): Uyghurs in China are indoctrinated 24 hours a day in communist ideology and Chinese culture, and the next generation will lose the Uyghur language, said Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur activist, poet and linguist, in an interview with The Post Millennial. Calling the Chinese policy towards Uyghurs equivalent to the “Holocaust”, […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and raised the UK’s ongoing concerns with the Rohingya crisis and conflict in Rakhine. During telephone conversations on Friday, the British Prime Minister and Suu Kyi discussed the challenges facing Myanmar. He began by congratulating her on […]
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Mon 23 November 2020: Pakistan has secured US $ 800 million worth of debt freeze deals from 14 members of the G20 while it still awaits ratification by the remaining six countries of the grouping, including Saudi Arabia and Japan, according to a media report on Sunday. It may be recalled that Pakistan along with 76 […]
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Sun 22 November 2020: The Bangladeshi authorities must abandon plans to relocate over 100 Rohingya families to a remote Bay of Bengal island which the United Nations has not declared safe for human habitation yet and where many refugees are still reluctant to relocate, said Amnesty International. The government has completed preparations to relocate 300-400 […]
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Sat 21 November 2020: President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that China is ready to step up global COVID-19 vaccine cooperation, and called for better international coordination on policies to facilitate movement of people. Pharmaceutical companies and research centers around the world are working on potential COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of […]
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Sat 21 November 2020: A rocket barrage slammed into the heavily fortified Green Zone where many embassies and international firms are based in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least eight civilians and wounding dozens more on Saturday. Tariq Arian, spokesman for the interior ministry, said “terrorists” mounted the rockets on a small truck and […]
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