Mon 03 August 2020: Leaked court documents show army personnel concerned about ‘possibly deliberate policy’ of killing civilian Afghans LONDON (AA) – Leaked documents claimed that the UK special forces carried out deliberate killings in Afghanistan, local media reported on Monday. The court documents and internal army e-mails were referring to the killing of 33 civilian […]
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Mon 03 August 2020: At least 21 people have been killed in ongoing fighting between Afghan security forces and gunmen who raided a jail overnight. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, known as IS in Khorasan province, claimed responsibility for the attack. The affiliate is headquartered in Nangarhar province. […]
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Mon 03 August 2020: Coronavirus cases cross 1.8M mark in India on Monday, over 50,000 new cases reported in last 24 hours NEW DELHI – India’s drug controller body granted permission to a local firm for conducting clinical human trials of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University, an authority announced on Monday. Government officials told […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: COVID-19 figures cross 17M in South Asian country; veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan makes recovery NEW DELHI – India’s minister of home affairs said on Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19, and is being hospitalized on the advice of doctors. Amit Shah, one of the country’s most powerful politicians, and […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: There is growing interest in recognizing the contributions of people from the Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities. Britain is considering minting a coin to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi, amid growing interest in recognizing the contributions of people from the Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities. British Finance Minister Rishi […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: Pledging to release 5,100 insurgents, government urges Taliban to prepare for intra-Afghan peace talks in as soon as 1 week KABUL – On the third and last day of a cease-fire with the Taliban, the Afghan government on Sunday announced that it had released over 300 prisoners of the militant group […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: Ban will destroy country’s e-sports industry and cause unemployment, critics say LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Saad*, 18, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence in southwestern Pakistan earlier this month. His brother says the teenager committed suicide after missing a task on a famous online video game. Over […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: Sinai was 1st Iranian film director to win international prize after 1979 revolution ANKARA (AA) – Prominent Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai has died of the novel coronavirus at the age of 79, local media reported on Saturday. Sinai, who is well-known for his film Bride of Fire, died at Tehran’s Amir Alam Hospital, […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: Former Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry says US tilt has emboldened Indian leadership to pursue hegemonic ambitions KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The annexation of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Aug. 5 last year has evoked international anguish against India, said Pakistan’s former top diplomat. In an interview with Anadolu […]
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Sat 01 August 2020: ASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Friday blacklisted a current and a former Chinese government official, and a paramilitary organization accused of being instrumental in Beijing’s crackdown on Turkic-Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang. The designations include the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), Sun Jinlong, a former XPCC operative, and Peng Jiarui, […]
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