Sat 28 January 2023: The House Foreign Affairs Committee will vote on a bill to entirely block the Chinese short-video platform TikTok next month. The US intends to outlaw TikTok nationwide. Reportedly, the law will give the White House the authority to impose a ban on TikTok due to more pressing national security issues. The […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani lost more than $20 billion (£16 billion) on Friday as investors withdrew from his companies for a second day due to allegations of fraud made by a US investment firm. The Adani Group has brushed off the allegations as malicious, but the outrage has not subsided as […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: A shooter opened fire and killed at least seven people in front of an East Jerusalem synagogue before being put to death, according to Israeli medics. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency rescue services said the shooter was neutralized at the scene and that some of the injured are in critical condition. […]
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Protesters march towards Swedish embassy to protest Quran-burning, Fri 27 January 2023: Government says it is ‘appalled’ that Islamophobic acts had been repeated within days in the two European countries. Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned “in the strongest terms” the desecration of the Quran by a far-right activist in the Netherlands as demonstrators gathered outside […]
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A child is treated in a hospital in Douma after what an investigation by the international chemical weapons watchdog determined was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government on an opposition-held area [File: White Helmets/handout Reuters] Fri 27 January 2023: Chemical weapons watchdog concludes that a Syrian air force helicopter dropped two cylinders ‘containing […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: A default by the US government could have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global economies. The United States government hit its borrowing limit last week, on January 19, leading to new economic worries at a time when most countries are expecting a slowdown in economic growth. The US administration has […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: A guard was killed in an armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy compound in Iran, according to the country’s foreign ministry. The attack on Friday also injured two people. “The attacker destroyed the guard post with a Kalashnikov automatic weapon and killed the head of the security service. Two security guards of […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: Israel has launched multiple air strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, in the Jenin refugee camp, in one of the deadliest Israeli military raids in years in the occupied West Bank. According to local sources in Gaza, Israeli warplanes […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: Advocacy group welcomes appointment of Amira Elghawaby to advisory role as ‘historic moment for Muslims in Canada’. Canada has appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia as the government seeks to stem hatred and discrimination after a series of attacks targeting members of Muslim communities in the country in recent years. Prime […]
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Thu 26 January 2023: The median disposable income for the poorest fifth of the population dropped 3.8% in the financial year through March 2022, while wages and benefit payments also failed to keep up with skyrocketing inflation, The Guardian reported. The data exposes how the squeeze is increasing inequality in the UK as an unbridgeable […]
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