Wed 29 March 2023: Lawmakers’ push to ban the app comes as they mull extending powers that force tech firms to facilitate mass snooping for the United States. Taipei, Taiwan – During a five-hour grilling of the chief executive of TikTok last week, United States lawmakers railed against the possibility of China using the wildly popular, […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries. The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the “double standards” of human rights internationally, a new Amnesty International report has said, with the West adopting a tough response to Russia’s war of aggression while also maintaining a […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: The unprecedented scale of action on Amritpal, who otherwise could have been arrested without either much noise or spectacle, appears to be an attempt to demoralise civil society by creating a ‘fear psychosis’, says historian and expert, Prof. Harjeshwar Singh. Chandigarh: A sense of uncertainty continues in Punjab as the police chase […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off his official election campaign on 10 March. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been brought forward to 14 May, having originally been scheduled for 18 June. Erdogan said that the change will boost voter turnout by avoiding any clash with university exams, school holidays […]
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Sun 26 March 2023: The sight of Israeli Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li and other Israeli delegates being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on 18 February was historic. The very moment that was meant to crown twenty years of Israeli diplomacy on the African continent turned within a few seconds […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Afghanistan’s new leaders believe in dialogue and an exchange of ideas. But it takes two hands to clap. A year and a half after the developments of August 15, 2021, when the Islamic Emirate regained control of Afghanistan, the situation in the country remains extremely hopeful. The security situation has improved significantly. Violence […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: Iraq, which sits on some of the world’s largest oil reserves, remains one of the poorest countries in the region. Iraq is the second-largest crude oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia. Yet despite the country’s vast oil wealth and significant revenues from crude oil exports, Iraq imports some 40 per […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration two decades after the war. Berlin, Germany – It was snowing and the roads were empty on an early Saturday. The dread was, is it really him? Will he agree to speak? We […]
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[Nataliia Shulga/Al Jazeera] Sun 12 March 2023: Scientists lean towards a natural spillover from animals, but China’s opacity means a lab leak can’t be ruled out. Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity […]
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Sat 11 March 2023: China brokering a deal between longtime Gulf rivals is ‘a broader sign of a changing global order’, analysts say. China’s efforts in brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been seen by analysts as broader signs of a “changing global order”. During talks in Beijing on Friday, Saudi Arabia and Iran […]
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