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Millions ‘a step away from starvation’ in Yemen, females disproportionately affected, warns UN official
Sep 23, 2021 09:44Women and girls are more likely to be hungry, sick or exposed to gender-based violence as a result of the crisis in Yemen, says the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, warning that millions of Yemenis are “a step away from starvation.”
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US judge orders Facebook to release anti-Rohingya account records for genocide case
Sep 23, 2021 09:08A judge in the United States has denounced Facebook for failing to release records of now-closed accounts that contributed to violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, according to a new report.
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US caught between fleeing and facing defeat in Yemen: Gen. Salami
Sep 22, 2021 12:56The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States is stuck between two "evil" choices of staying in Yemen and facing defeat, or leaving the war and be stigmatized for fleeing.
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Thousands flee fighting in Myanmar town near India
Sep 22, 2021 10:08Thousands of people have fled a Myanmar border town amid an escalation of fighting between the military and militia forces in the region.
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Thai protesters demand resignation of PM Prayut on 15th coup anniversary
Sep 19, 2021 11:40Hundreds of Thai protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Bangkok to mark the 15th anniversary of the 2006 military coup that overthrew former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, calling for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down.
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Ex-inmates decry worsening state of New York's 'hellhole' jail
Sep 19, 2021 09:07It's held disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, rapper Tupac Shakur and ex-IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn: New York's notorious Rikers Island prison is now under intense scrutiny over the deaths of at least nine inmates this year.
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Deadly gunfight erupts after Myanmar junta convoy hit by roadside bomb
Sep 19, 2021 07:18A roadside bomb attack has targeted a convoy of Myanmar’s ruling military forces near Yangon, with several people being killed in an ensuing gunfight, the military and media said.
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Iran's first humanitarian flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul
Sep 15, 2021 07:44An Iranian plane carrying humanitarian aid has landed in Kabul airport, in the first flight from the Islamic Republic to the Afghan capital since the Taliban takeover of the conflict-ridden country.
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OIC condemns Zionist entity’s repression against Palestinian prisoners
Sep 12, 2021 14:52A major commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced as an “act of collective punishment” Zionist entity’s repressive measures against the Palestinian prisoners, in the wake of a daring escape by at least six inmates from a high-security Israeli jail.
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Taliban: Women are allowed at universities, not in mixed classes though
Sep 12, 2021 09:48The Taliban’s higher education minister has announced that Afghan women would be allowed to study at university as long as they are separated from men, stressing that there would be a ban on mixed classes.