10-03-2021 WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Monday announced that people whose US visa applications were rejected due to former president Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ can now reapply for it. Donald Trump had imposed a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and African countries in 2017. President Joe Biden had …
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10-03-2021 By SJA Jafri UNITED NATIONS/ KARACHI: One in three women worldwide have been subject to sexual or physical violence during their lifetime, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN agency released the study on Tuesday urging governments to prevent violence, improve services for …
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10-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ LONDON: India has rebuked UK MPs for criticizing its handling of long-running farmers’ protests in Delhi. Several Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Party MPs on Monday expressed concern over the safety of protesters and the status of press freedom in India. But India’s High …
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10-03-2021 DHAKA: A news channel in Bangladesh has made history by hiring the first-ever transgender news anchor in the country. After 29-year-old Tashnuva Anan Shishir was given a chance to read the news for the first time, she got so emotional; she could not hold back her tears. Tashnuva said …
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09-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: On the night of December 26, 2001, Mohammad Abdul Hai boarded a train from Jodhpur in northwestern India’s Rajasthan state to Surat city in neighboring Gujarat to attend a three-day seminar on Muslim education. The seminar was organized by the All India Minority Education …
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09-03-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The Australian state of Victoria has announced an inquiry into the impact of colonization on Aboriginal people, the first probe of its kind nationally. Aboriginal Australians were dispossessed of their land after British settlement in 1788 and have since endured systemic injustices. Unlike some other Commonwealth …
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09-03-2021 BEIJING: In a first, China on Monday launched a health certificate program, or a virus passport, for domestic travelers taking the lead in calls for such an initiative. The digital certificate, which shows a user’s vaccination status and virus test results, is available for Chinese citizens via a program …
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09-03-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: A few hundred demonstrators gathered on Monday outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, where the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the death of George Floyd, is set to begin this month. Many protesters expressed anxiety about whether Chauvin would be convicted in …
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08-03-2021 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK/ CANBERRA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Change comes from challenge and that is the message organizers of International Women’s Day 2021 hope to trumpet Monday. “A challenged world is an alert world,” the International Women’s Day website says. “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender …
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08-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DOHA/ WASHINGTON: Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday met US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and General Austin Scott Miller, the Commander Resolute Support Mission Afghanistan, at the General Headquarters. According to …
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