Tue 30 Apr 2019: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised the plight of ethnic Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang region during talks with Chinese leaders and stressed that China must fully respect human rights, his spokesman said Monday. Guterres faced calls to speak out on human rights during his visit to Beijing where he attended a summit […]
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Tue 30 Apr 2019: Tribal leaders, religious figures and politicians from across Afghanistan gathered on Monday in Kabul amid tight security to discuss the war and American efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban. More than 3,000 people were attending the rare “loya jirga,” which is being billed as the largest in modern […]
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Mon 29 Apr 2019: The fourth phase of India’s staggered national election Monday was marred by multiple clashes that injured at least seven people and led to security forces firing warning shots outside one polling station. A junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, Babul Supriyo, said his car was attacked by […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: JAKARTA (Reuters) – Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand, an official said on Sunday. The April 17 elections were the first time the […]
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Thu 25 Apr 2019: DHAKA (Reuters) – Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk from landslides in the coming monsoon season and should be relocated to a remote island, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday, a move opposed by many refugees. Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims sheltered […]
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Thu 25 Apr 2019: Pakistan showed off its newest domestically-built anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile during a test in the Indian Ocean. The test is part of Islamabad’s ongoing efforts to acquire more “indigenous” weapons. The missile, launched from a fast attack craft in the northern Indian Ocean, successfully hit a target on the shore, […]
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Thu 25 Apr 2019: While it was reported in the media that post-demonetisation the unemployment in India was at a 40-year-high the government told the Parliament. On November 8, 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, a move that made around 80 per cent of the entire currency in circulation invalid instantly, it was […]
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Wed 24 Apr 2019: COLOMBO (Reuters) – Senior officials deliberately withheld intelligence about possible attacks on Sri Lanka, where a rash of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday killed at least 359 people, the leader of parliament said on Wednesday. “Some top intelligence officials hid the intelligence information purposefully. Information was there, but the top brass […]
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Wed 24 Apr 2019: New Delhi sponsors terrorism in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, the nation’s foreign minister claims, in line with a long history of the two states trading accusations of using militant groups against each other. India is involved in the terrorist attacks in Balochistan, Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi told local media on Tuesday, […]
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Tue 23 Apr 2019: If Sri Lanka adopts the burqa ban, it would join the group of nations in Asia, Africa, and Europe that have done so in the interest of preventing terrorists from using the burqa to evade police or hide explosives. Easter Sunday attacks killed at least 321 people and wounded nearly 500 […]
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