Thu 12 December 2019: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrived here Wednesday to begin his four-day official visit to Qatar. After his aircraft touched down at the Hamad International Airport in the Qatar capital at 9.15 pm local time (2.15 am Thursday Malaysian time), Mahathir and his wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, […]
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Wed 11 December 2019: (AP) A Pakistani court ordered on Wednesday that ailing former President Asif Ali Zardari be released on bail on medical grounds, so that he can seek medical treatment at a hospital of his choice in the country. The development came about five months after Zardari, the widower of the country’s assassinated […]
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Mon 09 December 2019: China is forcefully collecting blood samples from hundreds of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, in an attempt that some say vie to justify and intensify racial profiling against the Muslim minority. Speaking to yenisafak.com in an exclusive interview, Uyghur activist and journalist Tahir Imam revealed that China’s new project to amass […]
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Sat 07 December 2019: Dozens of protesters briefly besieged the office of a well-known independent newspaper in Islamabad, chanting slogans against the editor and staff and setting fire to copies of the paper before fleeing. Friday’s protest was the second incident this week at the offices of the English-language Dawn newspaper. It comes a day […]
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Tue 03 December 2019: The health condition of Syed Ali Geelani, a senior Kashmiri resistance leader, has deteriorated in the past several days, his spokesman said Monday. The 90-year-old leader, who has been under house arrest for the past 11 years, is facing several health issues including heart and kidney problems, Abdullah Gilani told Anadolu […]
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Tue 03 December 2019: Hindu worshippers have begun slaughtering thousands of buffalo as part of a religious ritual held every five years in southern Nepal, despite efforts to end the practice considered the world’s biggest sacrifice of animals at any one site. The Gadhimai Festival – a two-day festival in honour of the Hindu goddess of […]
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Tue 03 December 2019: (Bangkok) – The government Bangladesh is blocking aid groups from providing any meaningful education to Rohingya children in refugee camps and banning the children from attending schools outside the camps, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government should urgently lift the restrictions that unlawfully deprive almost 400,000 Rohingya refugee children […]
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Mon 02 December 2019: Images of half-naked men and women went viral on Monday from Malaysia’s tattoo exhibition, which has since been slammed by authorities as unsuitable “porn” for the conservative country. The “Tattoo Malaysia Expo” in the capital Kuala Lumpur attracted people from all over the world, and photos circulating online showed many heavily-inked participants wearing few […]
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Sun 01 December 2019: The gang rape of a veterinary doctor whose body was set on fire and dumped under a bridge has sent shockwaves through India, with hundreds of women taking to the streets in protest. The charred body of the 26-year-old woman was found on the outskirts of the southern city of Hyderabad on […]
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Sat 30 November 2019: A Roman Catholic bishop went on trial in southern India on Saturday accused of repeatedly raping a nun. Franco Mulakkal arrived in court in Kottayam, Kerala state, with a group of supporters after attending morning prayers. While the Catholic church has been rocked by sexual assault and abuse cases in many […]
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