Thu 01 October 2020: Police forces used tear gas to disperse activists, says Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency Iranian authorities on Wednesday arrested at least 11 pro-Azerbaijan protesters, according to the Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency. It said police forces used tear gas to disperse activists who gathered at a park in Ardabil […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: ‘Willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence’ in the name of free speech Pakistan on Wednesday urged the UN General Assembly to heighten efforts against a rising tide of Islamophobia across the globe. Willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence had been classified by the UN as “universally outlawed,” […]
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Wed 30 September 2020: The court had ignored all the evidence in Wednesday’s case, said Zafaryab Jilani, a lawyer for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. A special court has acquitted all senior figures in India’s ruling party of their role in the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu rioters, in a further […]
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Wed 30 September 2020: Risk in urban slums is twice than that in non-slum areas and four times than the risk in a rural setting Only 6.6% of Indian population exposed to COVID-19 so far! The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released the findings of the second nation-wide sero-survey on Tuesday. The survey found […]
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Wed 30 September 2020: With her tongue chopped off and severe injuries in her spinal cord A 20-year-old woman, who died on Tuesday in Delhi two weeks after she was gang-raped and tortured in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was cremated by policemen last night, allegedly as her family and relatives were locked up in their homes. […]
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Tue 29 September 2020: Foreign Ministry says long-standing dispute should be resolved peacefully KABUL, Afghanistan –Afghanistan has joined growing international calls for an end to Armenian occupation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Monday called for a cease-fire and urged the parties involved to resolve the long-standing crisis […]
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Tue 29 September 2020: Chinese army begins 3rd round of drills in South China Sea as Taiwan’s foreign minister fears cross-Taiwan Strait conflict China began a third round of military drills near disputed areas in the South China Sea as Taiwan fears increased in tensions may lead to a cross-Taiwan Strait conflict. The three-day live-fire […]
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Tue 29 September 2020: A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead. A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’s students, […]
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Tue 29 September 2020: Human rights defenders are facing an ‘incessant witch-hunt’, the organisation alleged Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday said that its work in India has been halted after the government froze several of the organisation’s bank accounts. “The complete freezing of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Government of India […]
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Mon 28 September 2020: In June, the ADB, and the World Bank each lent $500 million to cash-strapped Pakistan to prop up its struggling economy that has taken a hit from global coronavirus restrictions The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday approved a $300-million loan to help strengthen Pakistan’s struggling finance sector. The fresh loan, […]
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