24-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan’s new Taliban authorities warned on Saturday they have the right to crack down on dissent and jail protesters, as concerns grew over the disappearance of two women activists. Since storming back to power in August amid a hasty …
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24-01-2022 PARIS: Some 38,000 people protested across France Saturday, the interior ministry said, two days before a vaccination health pass becomes mandatory to take part in much of public life. From Monday, those aged 16 and above will have to show they have been jabbed to access restaurants or bars, …
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24-01-2022 ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has detained well-known journalist Sedef Kabas for allegedly insulting the country’s president. Ms Kabas was arrested on Saturday in Istanbul and a court ordered her to be jailed ahead of a trial. She is accused of targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a proverb which …
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24-01-2022 MIAMI/ LONDON: A passenger travelling in an American Airlines refused to wear a face mask so the plane had to turn back to Miami from where it had taken off, said the airline. According to media, police waited for flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board to return to …
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23-01-2022 WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s (NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her wedding after announcing new COVID restrictions. The entire country is set to be placed under the highest level of COVID restrictions after an outbreak of the Omicron variant. The restrictions include a cap of 100 vaccinated people at …
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23-01-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Fighting raged for a third day on Saturday between ISIL (ISIS) and Kurdish forces in Syria after attackers stormed a prison housing members of the armed group in violence that has killed more than 70 people so far. The assault on the Ghwayran prison in the northern …
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23-01-2022 LONDON: A British member of parliament says she was fired from a ministerial job in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable, according to the Sunday Times newspaper. Forty-nine-year-old Nusrat Ghani, who lost her job as a junior transport minister in …
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22-01-2022 By SJA Jafri KABUL/ KARACHI: As many as 3,96,193 Shia Muslims including young girls, women, children, doctors, journalists, engineers, educationists, religious scholars, policemen, security personals, scientists, philosophers, intellectuals even visitors and foreigners particularly Pakistanis belong with Shia (especially Hazara) community have been murdered and over 2,86,654 Shia Muslims have …
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22-01-2022 Bureau Report + BBC UDUPI/ NEW DELHI: A debate over the hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women has caused a stand-off at a women’s college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Six teenage students at a government-run pre-university college, equivalent to a high school have alleged that …
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22-01-2022 BRUSSELS: The United States, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the talks said, raising doubts about the Biden administration’s long-term support for the UN agency. The proposal, made by the WHO’s working group on sustainable …
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