Tue 02 July 2024: More than 100 people have died, and over a dozen others were injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India, authorities said. A large crowd had gathered on Tuesday in a village in Uttar Pradesh state’s Hathras district, about 200km (125 miles) southeast of New Delhi, for […]
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Tue 02 July 2024: A United Nations human rights working group says former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arbitrarily imprisoned in violation of international law. In an opinion issued on Monday, the Geneva-based UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said the “appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Khan immediately and accord him […]
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Mon 01 July 2024: Pakistan is set to start the second phase of a controversial plan to send undocumented Afghan refugees back to their country. Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the first phase in November last year. If they do […]
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Sun 30 June 2024: The Ministry of Public Health says more than 54,000 drug addicts have been treated since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s takeover in August 2021. Marking World Drug Day on Wednesday in Kabul, health officials said that addiction is a serious social problem and more effort should be made to prevent it. […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: The alcohol deaths rates of India are more than double that of China, a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. The WHO report predicts a sharp rise in India’s per capita alcohol consumption over the next six years, reported Deccan Herald. The number of alcohol-related deaths in India per […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Russia will become China’s largest gas supplier once the Power of Siberia and Far Eastern lines are fully operational in less than three years, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Friday. “In 2027, the Far Eastern route will be launched with a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters of gas per […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that the country would not hesitate to launch attacks on the territory of Afghanistan, its neighbour, amid rising tensions between the two over security concerns. When asked whether Pakistan would consider cross-border attacks to control perpetrators, the Asif replied to an interviewer, […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expelled former Defence Minister Li Shangfu, who disappeared and was dismissed last year, along with his predecessor, Wei Fenghe, as part of an ongoing anti-corruption campaign, state media reported. Li and Wei were removed for “serious violation of party discipline and the law,” according to […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan – A court in Pakistan has rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to suspend a February ruling that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law. The decision by the court in Islamabad on Thursday means that Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, will remain […]
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Thu 27 June 2024: North Korea has announced the successful test of a multiwarhead missile, a weapon capable of overwhelming U.S. missile defenses, despite South Korea and Japan reporting the launch as a failure. The state news agency KCNA reported that on Wednesday, North Korea “successfully conducted the separation and guidance control test of individual […]
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