Thu 07 September 2023: Iran’s security forces have detained a relative of a Kurdish-Iranian woman days before the anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police that sparked months of nationwide protests, a source close to the family said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Fearing a revival of the unrest that rocked the Islamic Republic, […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is Jewish, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism. In seeking to justify its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation”, Moscow […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: The government of Sri Lanka will establish a parliamentary committee to look into claims made in a British television broadcast that Sri Lankan intelligence was involved in the 269-person-death Easter Sunday explosions in 2019. Manusha Nanayakkara, the minister of labor, promised the house on Tuesday that more information on the probe […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: The number of displaced civilians within Sudan has almost doubled since the outbreak of clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in April, according to the UN migration agency on Tuesday. “Nearly 7.1 million people are internally displaced within Sudan,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Chinese authorities have ordered central government employees to refrain from using or bringing into the workplace any gadgets bearing the Apple or other foreign brand, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The step is the latest under authoritarian rule of Chinese Communist Party led […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: People of African descent are still facing “immense challenges” in participating meaningfully in public affairs in many countries due to “systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion often rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism,” said a report released Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Office. The report states that “systemic racism […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: The United Kingdom government is set to designate Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, as a “terrorist” organisation. The BBC, the UK’s public service broadcaster, reported a draft order would be put forward in parliament to allow Wagner’s assets to be categorised as “terrorist” property and seized. The designation will make it […]
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Tue 05 September 2023: United Airlines issued a nationwide ground stop on all flights that was quickly lifted, the Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed. As the fourth-largest domestic carrier in the United States, United Airlines found itself in the situation of temporarily grounding its departing aircraft while addressing the technology issue. The airline promptly issued […]
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Yumna Afzaal, 15, Madiha Salman, 44, Talat Afzaal, 74, and Salman Afzaal, 46, left to right, were out for an evening walk on June 6, 2021, in London, Ont., when they were run over. All four died, while a fifth member of the family survived. The trial of the man facing murder and terror charges […]
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The screen grab of the dinner invite sent by the Indian president to the G20 delegates [X/@ShashiTharoor] Tue 05 September 2023: The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has substituted the name India with a Sanskrit phrase in dinner invitations sent to visitors attending this week’s Group of 20 (G20) summit, sparking speculation that the […]
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