Wed 25 January 2023: India has used emergency powers to block airing of the documentary that questions PM Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 riots. India’s right-wing government has used emergency powers to block the airing of a BBC documentary which questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Calling the two-part […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Despite discussions between the Russian federation RFU and the entity that governs European football, UEFA, Russian football teams continue to be banned from participating in European competitions for the time being. A Russian delegation met with UEFA representatives on Tuesday in Nyon, Switzerland, according to information from the dpa. The RFU […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: A top Indian university cut off power and internet supply on campus before a screening by its students’ union of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India has dismissed as propaganda, broadcaster NDTV reported. The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the capital New Delhi had threatened disciplinary action if […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday held a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the capital Amman, a statement by Jordan’s Royal Hashemite Court said, amid heightened diplomatic tensions over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. Tuesday’s meeting was attended by an Israeli delegation as well as several Jordanian […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: The disgraced late US financier Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker has claimed that Epstein was murdered in prison. She told a British broadcaster in an interview that she believes that Epstein was murdered. In August 2019, Epstein committed suicide in a New York jail as he […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Russia’s new military reforms respond to the possible expansion of the NATO transatlantic military alliance and the use of Kyiv by the “collective West” to wage a hybrid war against Russia, the newly-appointed general in charge of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine has said. “Today, such threats include the aspirations of the […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: A prestigious Indian university has threatened its student union with severe disciplinary action if it proceeds with a planned screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi because it could “disturb peace and harmony” on campus. The documentary, which questioned Modi’s leadership during deadly riots in his home state […]
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Tue 24 January 2023: Sixteen survivors and witnesses ask German prosecutors to investigate the crackdowns on opponents of the military coup, and on the Rohingya. Survivors of military abuses in Myanmar have lodged a criminal complaint in Germany, asking prosecutors to investigate and bring to trial those responsible for committing atrocities during crackdowns on opponents […]
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Mon 24 January 2023: Following the deaths of more than 300 children from contaminated cough syrup, the WHO appealed Monday for “immediate and coordinated action” to root out substandard and falsified medicines around the world. At least seven countries have reported incidents involving over-the-counter cough syrups for children over the past four months, the World […]
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Mon 23 January 2023: The chairman of the Conservative Party was involved in a tax dispute, according to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who claimed he had requested his independent ethics adviser to look into it because “questions that need answering,” Reuters reported. Sunak stated that he wanted the ethics adviser to ensure that Conservative […]
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