19-11-2022 NEW YORK: Islamophobia in the Western world, particularly the US and Europe, has affected the rest of the world as well, triggering anti-Muslim attitudes, including Asia Pacific region, experts told Andalou Agency. “It is legitimate today to talk about the globalization of Islamophobia,” AA quoted John Louis Esposito, a …
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19-11-2022 BANGKOK: In August 2020, a youth-led protest movement began to sweep across Thailand, calling for constitutional reforms to rein in far-reaching powers of the country’s monarchy. Their demands inspired hundreds of thousands of people across Thailand, but, over two years later, the scale and intensity of protests have waned. …
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19-11-2022 TEHRAN: Iran’s envoy to the Vienna-based international organizations condemned the “unconstructive and political” resolution that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed against Tehran. The draft resolution, ratified on Thursday, has criticized Iran for what it called a lack of cooperation with the agency. It …
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19-11-2022 ZURICH: Business is rarely this simple. If you manufacture a product which everybody wants to buy, but which costs you almost nothing to make, you are going to accrue a lot of money rather quickly. In a nutshell, this is how FIFA, football’s world governing body, makes money. In …
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19-11-2022 NGARANNAM- NIGERI: Saleh Abba’s new home, a well-ventilated two-bedroom flat that he shares with his wife and three children in Ngarannam, a small, humid town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, is a source of joy for the Boko Haram survivor. The 29-year-old grain grinder’s favourite spot is …
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19-11-2022 KYIV: More than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity after dozens of Russian air attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure as winter sets in and temperatures plummet, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Repeated barrages disrupted electricity and water supplies across Ukraine, but Russia blamed the civilian suffering on Ukraine’s …
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19-11-2022 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia hopes it can make a prisoner swap with the United States that would include convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death”, a deputy foreign minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Amid the deadliest war in Europe since World War Two, …
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18-11-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: A federal minister in India has stirred a controversy after he blamed live-in relationships for a murder case that has made headlines in the country. Shraddha Walkar was killed in May, allegedly by her live-in partner, who has been arrested and charged with …
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18-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: India successfully launched its first privately developed rocket, the Vikram-S, on Friday, a milestone in the country’s effort to create a commercial space industry and to compete on cost. The 545-kg rocket, developed by space startup Skyroot, took off from the Indian space agency’s …
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18-11-2022 WASHINGTON: Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing Democrat who as the first woman US House of Representatives speaker shepherded landmark legislation and led two impeachments, said on Thursday she will give up her leadership role a day after Republicans secured control of the chamber. Pelosi’s allies quickly rallied around Representative Hakeem …
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