Tue 05 April 2022: US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Donald Lu, who was recently named by Imran Khan as being the official who made threatening remarks about his regime in a letter, evaded the question when asked about the regime change in Pakistan. The State Department official, who is currently visiting India, […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: Two years after a pandemic was declared, scientists continue to debate how the coronavirus behind COVID-19 came to infect humans. Even as COVID-19 enters its third year as a pandemic, the world is no closer to knowing the source of the virus that sparked it all. Just six weeks after declaring […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: The United States has stopped the Russian government from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600m from reserves held at American banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of US dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal on Monday, and said he would call for a war crimes trial. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal” Biden also said he would seek more sanctions after reported atrocities […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: The United States will ask the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, Washington’s ambassador to the world body has said. “Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce. And it is wrong, which is why we believe it is time the UN General […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: Russia’s foreign minister has dismissed Ukrainian accusations that Moscow’s forces committed atrocities against civilians, calling Kyiv’s claims of a massacre in Bucha a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation”. Sergey Lavrov said at the start of his talks with UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths that the Ukrainian allegations were a “direct threat to global peace […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: As protesters around the country demanded his resignation due to rising food, gasoline, and medication shortages, Sri Lanka’s president offered to share power with the opposition. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made his appeal to legislators on Monday as highly armed security forces attempted to calm fresh protests over what the administration has […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance emerged victories at the parliamentary elections in Hungary, the Kremlin said on Monday. “Russian President Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the occasion of the victory of the […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: Moscow has called for a special UN Security Council meeting Monday to address claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv. “In the light of heinous provocation of Ukrainian radicals in #Bucha Russia requested a meeting of UN #SecurityCouncil on Monday April 4,” Dmitry […]
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Mon 04 April 2022: Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Sunday he is renouncing his title of prince. “After what I have witnessed over the past years, I have come to the conclusion that my personal convictions and the values that my father instilled in me… are not in line with […]
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