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Indian lawmakers lambast PM Modi’s barbaric policies

12-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD: Indian parliamentarians, poets and columnists Sunday criticized and mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s atrocities and barbaric policies against minority communities particularly Muslims in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Asaduddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, slammed Narendra Modi for …

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Russian Nobel laureate ‘told to turn down award’

12-12-2022 MOSCOW: The Russian co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has said Kremlin authorities told him to turn down the award. Yan Rachinsky, who heads Memorial, said he was told not to accept the prize because the two other co-laureates, a Ukrainian human rights organization and jailed Belarusian rights …

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Russian drones smash power network in Odesa

12-12-2022 KYIV: All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, leaving 1.5 million people without power, officials said on Saturday. “The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly …

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US sports journalist dies during match in Qatar

11-12-2022 DOHA, QATAR: A prominent football journalist from the United States has died while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Grant Wahl, 48, collapsed as extra time began in the Argentina-Netherlands game on Friday night. Early reports suggest he may have had a heart attack, but this has yet to …

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Officer who knelt on George Floyd’s back sentenced

11-12-2022 MINNEAPOLIS: A former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s back has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for his role in Floyd’s death. J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in October. He was one of four officers …

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