Thu 01 September 2022: Long-delayed report from UN human rights office says abuses against mostly Muslim Uighurs stem from ‘anti-terrorism law systems’. China’s detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, the United Nations human rights office said in a long-delayed report […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has published a revised South African Tentative List for consideration and inscription on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. South Africa’s Tentative Listing updating and revision process was last undertaken in 2015. Since then, the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: The Assam government on Wednesday morning ordered the demolition of a madrasa in the Bongaigaon district for allegedly being associated with “a terror organization.” The district administration alleged that the premises of Markazul MaArif Quariayana Madrasa were being used for terror activities. On Tuesday, authorities evacuated at least 224 students from […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Shamima Begum, who had traveled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State (IS), was allegedly smuggled into the country by an intelligence agent, according to a new book by writer Richard Kerbaj. Mohammed al-Rashed, a spy working for Canadian intelligence, smuggled British schoolgirl Shamima Begum and her two friends into Syria […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Less than a week after fighting tore apart a four-month-old ceasefire, an air attack struck the neighborhood near a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region late on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Ayder General Hospital’s CEO, Kibrom Gebreselassie, posted on Twitter that Mekelle General Hospital’s neighborhood had been struck. It […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the USSR, passed away at the age of 91. When Gorbachev assumed office in 1985, he was lauded for his efforts to liberalize the USSR and improve relations with the West, but he was unable to prevent his nation’s collapse in 1991. According to the […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Government has condemned the actions of citizens who have been preventing people from other countries accessing healthcare services at Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. “These actions by a few are infringing on basic human rights. They go against the tenets of hard fought democracy,” government said in a statement. In South […]
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Tue 30 August 2022: According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans feel that civil war is at least somewhat likely in the next ten years. Citizens in the United States believe that social divisions will increase in the next years, and that they have gotten worse since the year 2021 began. In comparison […]
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Tue 30 August 2022: After weeks of accelerated growth of monkeypox cases across the globe, the epidemic might be slowing down, according to World Health Organization (WHO). Reportedly, the UN agency on Tuesday stated it saw ‘encouraging’ signs that the epidemic was receding in Europe. “There are encouraging early signs, as evidenced in France, Germany, […]
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Tue 30 August 2022: On Tuesday, the UN made a quick request for $160 million to assist Pakistan in dealing with the disastrous floods that have claimed more than 1,100 lives since mid-June, according to officials. The pledge drive began simultaneously in Geneva and Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. “United Nations is issuing a flash […]
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