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International lawmakers seek global regulations for social media 0
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- November 28, 2018
PRI’s The World November 27, 2018 By The World staff A campaigner from a political pressure group wears an oversized mask of founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg after he failed to attend a meeting on fake news held by Parliament’s Digital, Culture Media and Sport committee in London Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters For the
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Sri Lanka’s top military officer detained in deaths of 11 0
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- November 28, 2018
By Editor on November 28, 2018 Colombo, – A Sri Lankan court has ordered the detention of the country’s top military officer for investigation in connection with the abduction and disappearance of 11 young people during the country’s civil war that ended nine years ago, the Associated Press reported.
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India’s Dangerous New Curriculum 0
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- November 27, 2018
Alex Traub December 6, 2018 Issue Ian Berry/Magnum Photos Schoolgirls in Udaipur, Rajasthan, 1999 From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire did much to create modern-day India. It consolidated the country into a sovereign political
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Indian Officials, Rights Groups Express Alarm over Assam Residents’ Suicides 0
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- November 27, 2018
By Jhumur Deb on Nov 27, 2018 Nirupama Das’ voice quivered as she spoke about seeking justice for her father. Nirod Baran Das, a respected lawyer, took his own life last month, about three months after relatives said he began talking about the humiliation of being treated as a foreigner in the land where he was
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China’s Most Popular App Is Full of Hate; WeChat groups have become a major vector for anti-Muslim conspiracy theories 0
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- November 27, 2018
By Frankie Huang | November 27, 2018, 10:05 AM A Trump supporter holds up a sign during an anti-sharia law rally organized by ACT for America on June 10 2017 in New York. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) The last two years have seen a crackdown on Islamic practices by the Chinese government, from the incarceration of
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Indian Islands Andaman and Nocober: Search for slain American missionary could ‘wipe out’ Sentinalese 0
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- November 26, 2018
Reuters November 26, 2018 An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on a remote island in the Indian Ocean where he had gone to proselytize, according to local law enforcement officials, in this undated image obtained from a social media on Nov. 23,
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Bangladesh: Trial Opens for Suspects in Café Terror Attack 0
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- November 26, 2018
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Nov 26, 2018 The trial of eight men accused of having a role in Bangladesh’s bloodiest terrorist attack – the July 2016 siege of a café in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter – began on Monday with their indictment before a special court, officials said. An anti-terrorism tribunal brought charges of conspiring
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Qatar Airways to expand Iran flights despite US sanctions 0
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- November 26, 2018
AFP November 26, 2018 0 A Qatar Airways airplane is seen during take-off. — File Qatar Airways announced on Monday it is expanding operations in Iran, despite US sanctions on the Islamic republic and a Gulf diplomatic rift over accusations Doha was too close to Tehran. The carrier will begin twice-weekly flights to Isfahan in February
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Maldivian opposition leader alleges President Solih has “secret” deal with India on mega project 0
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- November 26, 2018
By Editor on November 26, 2018 Male, November 27 (AVAS): The Maldivian opposition party, Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) led by former President Abdulla Yameen,has charged that the Ibrahim Solih government has entered a “secret” deal with India to increase the Indian military presence in the archipelago and also to give the I-haven Special Economic Zone project
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Book review; THUG – This Terrifying Indian Gang Strangled 105 People in One Winter 0
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- November 26, 2018
Hard cover 356 pages, Publisher: Granta Books (April 30, 2005) Language: English, ISBN-10: 1862076049,ISBN-13: 978-1862076044 Stranglers from the Thuggee sect in Aurangabad prison, drawn by Alphonse de Neuville. SourceComposite: Sean Culligan/OZY. Image: Getty Why you should care Suave, disciplined and ruthless — highwaymen don’t come more effective than Feringeea. Some people are too evil to forget
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Shining a Spotlight: Revealing China’s Maritime Militia to Deter its Use 0
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- November 26, 2018
November 25, 2018 ChinaSouth China SeaAmericaMaritime MilitiaHybrid Warfare How China’s maritime militia threatens U.S. and allied interests—and how to counter it. by Andrew S. Erickson At the U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue press conference on November 9, Defense Secretary James Mattis made a great contribution by using his top-level authority to shine a spotlight
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Bombs Dropped On Afghanistan: Numbers Rising 0
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- November 26, 2018
RFE/RL’s Infographics November 26, 2018 The number of bombs dropped by the U.S. coalition on Afghanistan during the first nine months of 2018 approaches the record set in 2011.
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US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations 0
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- November 26, 2018
Source: Youtube 26 November 2018 Jeff Bachman, American University School of International Service A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Guterres put the
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26/11 Ended a Chapter in India-Pak Ties. Ten Years On, Communication is Still Broken.0
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- November 26, 2018
The events of November 2008 continue to hang over India’s relations with Pakistan till today. Pigeons fly outside the Taj Mahal Hotel, which was one of the targets of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in November 2008. Credit: Reuters The Wire Staff New Delhi: On a Wednesday evening at Hyderabad House’s Rajputana suite, Pakistan foreign
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