Sat 27 June 2020: NEW DELHI, India (AA) – With 18,552 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, India’s nationwide tally on Saturday crossed the 0.5 million mark, the biggest surge so far, the Health Ministry said. Meanwhile, the death toll touched 15,700 with 384 more fatalities. A total of 295,881 people in the country […]
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Sat 27 June 2020: ISTANBUL (AA) – India, perceived as a pivot to the US policy of containing China, appears to be on the horns of strategic dilemma both regionally and globally. While it is weighing the costs of conflict to its economy as its army is engaged in a standoff with China along the […]
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Fri 26 June 2020: Students, activists protesting against new citizenship law were detained ANKARA (AA) – UN human rights experts on Friday called on India to release protesters who were detained two months ago when they were protesting against the new controversial citizenship law that is seen as discriminatory against Muslims. “Authorities should immediately release all […]
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Fri 26 June 2020: Rights group starts petition to draw attention of international community on dire conditions of Rohingya refugees ANKARA (AA) – An international rights group on Friday started a petition to draw the attention of the international community on the dire conditions of Rohingya refugees in the midst of COVID-19 crisis. “Sign the […]
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Fri 26 June 2020: India acknowledged for the first time that it has matched China in massing troops at their contested Himalayan border region after a deadly clash this month. But India’s foreign ministry accused China of causing the tensions by starting military deployments, and warned relations between the world’s two most populous nations could […]
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Fri 26 June 2020: The announcement of a film on the life of Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji, a freedom fighter in the Malabar region of Kerala who fought the British in the early 20th century, has led to a hate campaign against the proposed film and its crew, The Hindu reported. The film, said to be titled Variyamkunnan, is set to […]
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Fri 26 June 2020: Our ally came inside our country and killed someone without informing us, said PM Khan, referring to how U.S. Navy Seals killed the 9/11 mastermind in Abbottabad. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called slain al-Qaeda chief and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a “shaheed” (martyr) and said that Islamabad faced “embarrassment” […]
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Thu 25 June 2020: West needs greater understanding of pluralism, says Muslim scholar, illustrating Islamophobia across world JAKARTA (AA) – Indonesian Muslim intellectuals have voiced their concerns following a recent report on mounting Islamophobia in western countries. A report published Sunday by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), a think tank based int eh Turkish […]
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Thu 25 June 2020: Forced to bury multiple bodies in single grave due to lack of space, Rohingya refugees ‘urgently’ request land for cemetery DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Rohingya rights group has asked the Bangladeshi refugee commissioner’s office to allocate a plot of land for members of the minority group to bury the bodies of […]
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Wed 24 June 2020: LOMBOK, INDONESIA – JUNE 24: Workers at the GORA Bumi Hepatika Laboratory in Mataram city, Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara strived to produce COVID-19 affordable rapid test equipment. The research, named RI-GHA Covid-19, was led by Professor Mulyanto, the head of the lab. The name stands for the Republic of […]
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