28-05-2022 GENEVA: Countries should take quick steps to contain the spread of monkeypox and share data about their vaccine stockpiles, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday. “We think that if we put in place the right measures now we probably can contain this easily,” Sylvie Briand, WHO …
Read More »UN envoy tells of serious concern at Taliban’s ‘erasure of women’
27-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW YORK: The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in the country as the governing Taliban imposes new restrictions on women and attacks against religious minorities mount. Richard Bennett said on …
Read More »Al Jazeera to send journalist Shireen murder case to ICC
27-05-2022 DOHA/ HAGUE: Al Jazeera Media Network has assigned a legal team to refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The network said in a statement on Thursday that it has formed an international coalition that consists of its …
Read More »China, Russia veto US bid at UN to punish North Korea
27-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS: China and Russia on Thursday vetoed a US-led bid at the United Nations to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its missile launches, laying bare divisions that Western envoys fear would be exploited by Pyongyang. The Security Council resolution put forward by the United States would have …
Read More »Cases filed against BJP chief Bandi Sanjay over hate speech
Hyderabad’27 May.2022- The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders on Thursday have lodged police complaints against state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay for delivering a hate speech in Karimnagar town. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has demanded the State government to take action against Sanjay and Muslim leaders in Congress too …
Read More »New abortion battle over pills begins in America
27-05-2022 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has not yet released its decision that looks set to dramatically scale back abortion rights, but one of the next legal battles has already begun in a Mississippi court. That is where the manufacturer of a pill used to carry out medication abortions, Las …
Read More »Russia prepares to seize western firms looking to leave
27-05-2022 MOSCOW: Russia is advancing a new law allowing it to take control of the local businesses of western companies that decide to leave in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit. The law, which could be in place within weeks, will …
Read More »US seizes Iranian oil cargo near Greek island
27-05-2022 LONDON/ ATHENS: The United States has confiscated Iranian oil held on a Russian-operated ship near Greece and will send the cargo to the United States aboard another vessel, three sources familiar with the matter said. It was unclear whether the cargo was impounded because it was Iranian oil or …
Read More »KCR meets Deve Gowda in Bengaluru, holds discussions
Hyderabad, May 26 (press media of india): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday called on JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda at his residence here and held discussions on various issues. KCR, as he is popularly known, left for Bengaluru hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hyderabad visit …
Read More »Congress condemns Bandi Sanjay’s remarks against Muslims; to lodge police complaints
Hyderabad, May 26 (Press media of india): Accusing Telangana BJP President Bandi Sanjay of delivering a ‘highly objectionable and provocative’ speech against the Muslim community, the Congress party on Thursday demanded stern action against him. “Bandi Sanjay delivered a hate speech in Karimnagar with the sole intention to provoke the …
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