29-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China on …
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29-05-2021 COPENHAGEN: The WHO’s European director slammed the region for its slow vaccine rollout warned on Friday and warned that the coronavirus pandemic won’t end until at least 70% of people are inoculated. The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said countries and their populations must not …
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28-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: With the Covid-19 positivity rate falling below 2 per cent in Delhi, the city government has decided to begin the unlock process. Addressing the media after meeting L-G Anil Baijal, Kejriwal said that relaxations will be given to businesses from May 31. He said that …
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28-05-2021 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated a new mosque in Istanbul, fulfilling a decades-old goal of his and stamping a religious identity on the landmark Taksim Square in the heart of the city. The Taksim mosque and its 30-metre high dome loom symbolically over a monument to …
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28-05-2021 BERLIN/ WINDHOEK: Germany has recognized for the first time that it committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial rule more than a century ago and promised financial support worth more than one billion Euros ($1.2bn) to fund infrastructure projects in the African nation. German settlers killed thousands of Herero …
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28-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices. The police served notice to the social media giant after it labelled a ruling party tweet “manipulated media”. Twitter had applied the label to a post by …
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28-05-2021 VIENNA: The Austrian government came under fire Thursday for a new “Islam map” showing the location of mosques and associations around the country, with religious groups saying it would stigmatize Austria’s Muslim population. Earlier, Integration Minister Susanne Raab unveiled an Internet website called the “National Map of Islam” with …
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28-05-2021 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Human Rights Council has agreed to launch an open-ended international investigation into violations during the 11-day conflict between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza, and into “systematic” abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories and inside Israel. By a vote of 24 states in favour, nine …
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28-05-2021 DAMASCUS, Syria: Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country following an election described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his opposition. Assad’s win was not in doubt, in an election where …
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27-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ BAIJING: It seems that the majority of “Australians has become spy for America” (not for themselves or their own country) while the reputation of Aussies is not only declining very fast but the rest of the world sees Australia and Australians …
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