Mon 20 July 2020: Ahead Eid al-Adha Muslim festival, overall sales of sacrificial animals could fall due to new COVID-19 restrictions Traffic jams, crowds of buyers, and chants from sellers were the usual scenes at a sprawling makeshift cattle market at the highway that connects the port city of Karachi to the rest of the […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: ‘No, so-called, pervasive, massive, forced sterilization among Uighur women in China,’ says China’s ambassador to UK LONDON (AA) – China’s ambassador to the UK denied on Sunday the widespread abuse of the Uighur community after a video posted on social media raised accusations of genocide. In an interview with BBC, Liu Xiaoming […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday it was clear the Uighur minority in China had suffered abuses of their human rights. “It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on, which is why in Geneva at the UN we raised this with 27 partners … […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: India sees nearly 39,000 cases in record single-day spike bringing tally close to 1.1M mark With 38,902 new cases and 543 deaths in the last 24 hours, India early Sunday recorded its biggest surge in COVID-19 cases to date. The country’s case tally to date is now at 1,077,618, as the […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: Some 1,579 new cases seen in last 24 hours as recoveries top 200,000 mark Pakistan’s daily coronavirus tally continued to fall, as the country recorded only 1,579 new cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest single-day sum since May, Health Ministry data said Sunday. With the new cases, the total […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Half of country’s infections reported in past month, official data shows Over 2,700 more infections have taken the number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh past the 200,000 mark, officials announced on Saturday. At least 2,709 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the overall count to […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: But Canadian government maintains silence on issue TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Hamtramck city council in the state of Michigan became the fifth city in the United States to denounce India’s new citizen act, saying it discriminates against Muslims, media reported Thursday. Canada joined in with New Westminster in the province of […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: China’s National Health Commission reported 11 new cases in the far western region of Xinjiang, taking the total number of cases in the capital, Urumqi, to 17. Authorities in Urumqi have reduced subways, buses and taxis and closed off some residential communities, according to Chinese media reports. They also placed restrictions […]
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Fri 17 July 2020: Two officials have been removed in India after a Dalit couple attempted suicide by consuming pesticide while being evicted from government land. The couple consumed pesticide after police beat them and destroyed their crops, causing outrage over the latest case of police brutality against marginalised sections of society. An online video […]
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Fri 17 July 2020: On Thursday (July 16) night, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases hit the one million mark. But since 0.63 million of those are cured, the total active cases is 343,000. The coronavirus infections topped one million in just three days after crossing 900,000. India, home to some of the planet’s most […]
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