Fri 09 February 2024: Britain’s Unilever said on Thursday that fourth-quarter sales growth in south-east Asia had been hurt by shoppers in Indonesia boycotting brands of multinational companies “in response to the geopolitical situation in the Middle East,” Reuters has reported. INDONESIANS BOYCOTT MCDONALD’S, STARBUCKS OVER SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The maker of Dove soap, Knorr stock cubes […]
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Thu 08 February 2024: Counting is underway after polling for Pakistan’s crucial general elections ended on Thursday evening, Anadolu Agency reports. According to initial results, a tough contest is seen between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of three-time Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and independent candidates backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of incarcerated ex-Prime Minister, Imran Khan. Contrary […]
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Head of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest religio-socio-political party, Siraj-ul-Haq cast his vote Thu 08 February 2024: Standing in line outside a polling station in the southern district of the port city of Karachi, Unas Aamir is anxious as he awaits his turn to cast his ballot in Pakistan’s high-stakes general elections. He is one of […]
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Attacks on religious buildings are war crimes under international law [Courtesy of Amnesty International] Thu 08 February 2024: Myanmar’s military should be investigated for war crimes over an air attack last month that killed 17 villagers, including two children, as they attended a Sunday church service, Amnesty International has said. Amnesty said photo and […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A day before parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place, two bombs targeting the election headquarters of an independent candidate and a political party in southwest Pakistan have left over fifty people injured and at least twenty-eight dead. The first attack, which killed 16 people, took place at the office of […]
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Wed 07 February 2024: A right-wing Hindu group in Rajasthan’s Ajmer has claimed that Ajmer Dargah was actually a Hindu temple. Rajvardhan Singh Parmar, president of the Hindu right-wing ‘Maharana Pratap Sena’ in Ajmer said that Ajmer Dargah is a “sacred Hindu temple”. He also held a press conference recently, making similar claims. This comes […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol granted special pardon to over 450,000 people, including a former defense minister and presidential chief of staff, local media reported on Tuesday. The presidential order came on the occasion of Lunar New Year to be marked on Saturday, Feb. 10 this year. Among those pardoned […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Amid “rising concerns over a potential invasion of Taiwan by Beijing in the future,” Japanese media reported on Sunday that the US and Japanese forces have, for the first time, designated China as a hypothetical enemy in their combined command post exercise. The US and Japan started conducting joint drills in […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Internally displaced Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups escalate. Many have crossed into the Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Cox’s Bazar, where 1.2 million Muslims […]
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A person holds a sign during a protest outside the Indian consulate in Vancouver in September 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Sun 04 February 2024: Canada’s inquiry into foreign interference in its last two federal elections has named India and China and called for Ottawa to “do more”, according to a top secret briefing report obtained […]
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