Mon 26 October 2020: Chinese leaders will discuss ambitious new measures to tackle climate change on Monday at a government plenum to finalize a new five-year national development plan, after Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to make the country “carbon neutral” by 2060. Policymakers are under pressure to include radical climate targets in the new […]
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Mon 26 October 2020: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking a ban on Islamophobic content on the site, warning that it results in polarisation and marginalisation of Muslims. In a letter, which the Pakistani government posted on Twitter, Imran Khan said that “growing Islamophobia” was encouraging […]
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Sun 25 October 2020: Afghanistan on Sunday claimed killing the deputy head of Al-Qaeda for the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in a security operation. The ‘No. 2 of al-Qaeda’ in the Indian Sub-Continent, Abu Mohsin Al-Misri, was killed in the central Ghazni province, some 150km south of the capital Kabul, the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan’s […]
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Sun 25 October 2020: Hallmark of a leader is he unites human beings, as Mandela did, rather than dividing them Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Sunday denounced what he called was “encouragement of Islamophobia” by French President Emmanuel Macron, saying the European leader had chosen to “deliberately provoke” Muslims, including his own citizens. […]
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Sun 25 October 2020: With the Taliban denying involvement in the attack, the ISIS/Daesh terror group has taken responsibility The death toll from a suicide attack at an educational centre in Kabul has gone up to 24, Afghanistan’s interior ministry said. According to the Interior Ministry, 57 others in Kabul were injured in the suicide […]
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285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire. 1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. 1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer […]
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Sat 24 October 2020: Iceland and Mongolia were taken off FATF’s list of countries under increased monitoring Pakistan will remain on a terrorism financing watch list until it completely implements a set of preventive guidelines, a global watchdog said, urging Islamabad to improve financial controls. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body, praised […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: Indonesia’s defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and his French counterpart Florence Parly are aiming to sign a defense cooperation agreement (DCA) before the end of this year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. “Prabowo Subianto and Florence Parly emphasized the importance of maintaining the stability and […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: Goldman Sachs agreed to pay more than $2.9 billion to regulators around the world, including a record penalty for violating a U.S. anti-corruption law, to resolve probes into its role in an international finance scandal, authorities announced Thursday. The sum is set to be the largest US fine ever in a corruption case. […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: A report in The Economist that characterised its policies in Xinjiang, where most of the country’s Muslim Uighur population lives, as a crime against humanity China hit back Canada after a parliamentary committee this week concluded the Chinese government’s policies against the country’s Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang amounts to “genocide”. […]
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