UNITED NATIONS: The internet has “super-charged” hate speech, allowing perpetrators to spread their “lies, conspiracies and threats,” the United Nations warned, hours after an anti-Islam activist burned copies of the Muslim holy book near a Copenhagen mosque facing the Turkish embassy in Denmark. “Around the world, we see a groundswell of xenophobia, racism and intolerance,...
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January 27, 2023January 27, 2023World
Thousands take part in Australia’s ‘invasion day’ protests
People participate in the ‘Invasion Day’ rally in Melbourne on January 26, 2023. — Photo provided by Reuters SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on Thursday with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as “Invasion...
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January 26, 2023January 26, 2023World
No backchannel diplomacy between Pakistan and India: Khar
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday that ever since the incumbent government came to power, there has been no backchannel diplomacy going on between Pakistan and India “untold to the rest of the world”. “At this moment, there is no such thing under way,” she said during a Senate...
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January 25, 2023January 25, 2023World
US sues Google for ‘abusing online ad business dominance’
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department sued Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of abusing its dominance of the digital advertising business and said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, in the government’s latest jab at thwarting Big Tech’s market power. The lawsuit tackles a business at Google that is responsible...
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January 24, 2023January 24, 2023World
Hundreds protest in Afghan city against desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden
Protester gather during a demonstration against the burning of the Holy Quran by Swedish-Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, in Khost on January 24. — AFP Hundreds of Afghan men staged a protest in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday to express anger at the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital over the weekend....
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January 24, 2023January 24, 2023World
US wants regional stability in South Asia to ‘advance’, says Pak-India dialogue ‘a matter of their own’
The United States has said it has been an explicit proponent of regional stability in South Asia while insisting that a dialogue between the two important regional players — Pakistan and India — was a matter between the two countries. “We have long called for regional stability in South Asia, but the pace, the scope,...
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January 15, 2023January 15, 2023World
Former MP Mursal Nabizada and her guard were killed in an attack.
Mursal Nabizada, a member of parliament (MP) during the former republic regime, was killed by unidentified attackers in Kabul. Nabizada was shot dead on Saturday night, January 15, in her house in the Arzan Qimat neighbourhood of the 12th PD of Kabul city. The assailants took away her belongings, including jewellery. A Taliban spokesman in Kabul...
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January 12, 2023January 12, 2023World
Five killed, dozens wounded by suicide blast in Kabul
Kabul: /DNA/ – At least five people were killed and dozens wounded by a suicide bomber near the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul Wednesday, where a Chinese delegation had been due to meet, officials and witnesses said. A company driver waiting outside saw a man holding a bag and with a rifle slung over his...