A school teacher in India has subjected a seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom, asking his classmates to slap him and asking for him to be evicted due to his religion, a video now viral on social media has revealed. The video, which surfaced on Friday, showed Trapta Tyagi, the teacher at […]
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Russia said early Friday that it has downed dozens of drones launched from Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that 42 drones were destroyed over Crimea – nine shot down by air defense forces, 33 by electronic warfare. Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014. There were no immediate reports of fatalities. The U.S. Defense Department […]
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ANKARA; Dily Hurriyet reports: Zeliha Karlı’s application for a visa to visit her son, Yusuf Karlı, a doctoral student at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, has been rejected, citing concerns that she might not return due to her recent displacement caused by the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye. Yusuf Karlı, an academic researching quantum physics […]
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A fact-finding mission of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has suspected that Jaranwala rioters were not a “spontaneous or random crowd”, but were a part of a “larger campaign of hatred against local Christians”. On August 16, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches, and attacked the residences […]
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JOHANNESBURG: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held “candid and in-depth” talks to ease tensions along their disputed frontier, Beijing said on Friday, after a rare face-to-face encounter between the two leaders. Relations between the world’s two most populous countries have been in deep freeze since a deadly Himalayan border clash […]
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New Delhi: Centre’s top law officers Thursday asserted there was no “constitutional fraud” in annulling Article 370 that accorded special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which heard their contentions at length, told them they will have to justify the procedure […]
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UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the reform of the UN Security Council and sought revision of the Bretton Woods system – a global financial architecture created by the US-led Western countries after the end of World War II. “Today’s structures reflect yesterday’s world,” the UN chief told the BRICKS summit […]
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In his remarks, Putin said, “I knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early ’90s. “He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results. He was a talented person, a talented businessman, he worked not only in our country, and worked […]
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JOHANNESBURG: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg and highlighted concerns India has about border issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India’s foreign secretary said. Modi and Xi agreed “to direct their relevant officials to intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement […]
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Ukraine has claimed its troops briefly landed overnight in the occupied Crimea peninsula, as the country marks 32 years of its independence. All objectives of the “special operation” were achieved without any casualties, the defence ministry said. It added that during a firefight in Olenivka and Mayak, western Crimea, “the enemy suffered losses”. Russia illegally […]
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