Fri 07 February 2020: A Christian woman charged with blasphemy has escaped jail for bringing a dog into a mosque while suffering a bout of psychosis, the latest religious case to draw headlines in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. The case of Suzethe Margareth, 52, sparked outrage last summer when a video emerged showing her in a mosque […]
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Thu 06 February 2020: Plans for the construction of a grand Hindu temple on a holy site bitterly contested by Muslims moved forward Wednesday when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a trust had been finalized to oversee the project. The move came amid ongoing protests against a citizenship law that fast tracks naturalization for […]
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Wed 05 February 2020: Shaheen Bagh Protests: The woman – identified as Gunja Kapoor – raised suspicion when she kept asking “too many questions”, said eyewitnesses. New Delhi: A burqa-clad woman was whisked away this morning by police at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh – the heart of protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA – after her […]
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A man (face blurred as his being an adult could not be ascertained) brandishes a gun towards people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, near Jamia Millia Mon 03 February 2020: Amnesty International on Saturday warned that India was becoming a dangerous place for peaceful protesters, citing ruling party leaders’ remarks against demonstrators protesting a […]
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Sat 01 February 2020: In exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Imran Khan spoke on a range of global and domestic issues Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the international community that India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was preparing to repeat the Myanmar style genocide and exclusion of its minority population. He said that […]
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Fri 31 January 2020: Hundreds of people in Pakistan staged Friday a rally to protest the U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Middle East peace plan. The rally organized by Palestine Foundation Pakistan (PFP) — a conglomerate of different political and religious parties — was held in the country’s southern port city of Karachi, after the […]
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Fri 31 January 2020: Nirav Modi has been detained for nearly a year over bank fraud case The detained diamond tycoon Nirav Modi will face a full extradition hearing in London in May as he fights attempts by India to put him on trial for the country’s largest banking fraud. Mr Modi, 48, was arrested […]
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Thu 30 January 2020: Four Indian airlines bar Kunal Kamra from flying after he berates right-wing journalist Arnab Goswami during a flight. An Indian stand-up comedian has been slapped with a flight ban by four Indian airlines after he heckled a popular right-wing television presenter on board an aircraft. Kunal Kamra, 30, on Tuesday tweeted […]
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Thu 30 January 2020: Rohingya refugees reacted with surprise and joy Wednesday to news that Bangladesh would provide formal education for their children, two and a half years after they were forced to flee Myanmar. Authorities in Bangladesh in partnership with the United Nations will expand educational programs for hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya […]
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Mon 27 January 2020: A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said. Tariq Ghazniwal, a journalist in the area, said that he saw the burning aircraft. In an exchange on Twitter, he told The Associated Press that he saw two bodies […]
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