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Coup d’etat in Guinea – Military detains president, dissolves government
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Coup d’etat in Guinea – Military detains president, dissolves government

Guinean special forces seized power in a coup on Sunday, arresting the president and imposing an indefinite curfew in the poor west African country. In a video sent to AFP, military officers said: "We have decided, after having taken the president, to dissolve the constitution." The officer also said that Guinea's land and air borders had been shut and the government dissolved. The military of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday, September 5, 2021, after hours of heavy fighting between the soldiers and presidential guards. The country's borders were closed and its constitution was declared invalid in the announcement read aloud on state television by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, who told Guineans: "The duty of a soldier is to save the country." "We will no longer entr...
“Are we not part of Muslim ‘Ummah’?”, ask Uyghurs as Taliban plans to deport them to China for money
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“Are we not part of Muslim ‘Ummah’?”, ask Uyghurs as Taliban plans to deport them to China for money

After the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15, there are growing apprehensions among the Uyghurs living in Afghanistan who fear they might be sent back to China in lieu of large sums of money. Some two thousand Uyghur Muslims are living in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan at present and there are reports that the Taliban fighters have taken Uygher girls according to a report by Radio Free Asia. International Islamic terror group Al Qaeda which called on the masses in “Europe and East Asia to break free from the shackles of American hegemony”, did not say anything when it came to the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang in China. Al Qaeda had congratulated the Taliban for its victory in Afghanistan and called for the “liberation” of Kashmir, Palestine, Maghreb (Northwest...
Sri Lankan President declares an economic emergency to contain soaring inflation
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Sri Lankan President declares an economic emergency to contain soaring inflation

On Tuesday 2nd September, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared an economic emergency to contain soaring inflation. The move came after a spike in food price which was caused by the steep fall in the value of the country's currency. The emergency came into effect at midnight on Tuesday. The emergency was declared following sharp price rise in several daily use commodities like sugar, rice, onions and potatoes. Long queues had formed outside stores due to shortages of milk powder, kerosene oil and cooking gas. The government has said that a state of emergency was declared under the public security ordinance to prevent the hoarding of essential items, including rice and sugar. Consequently, SL government has appointed a former army general as commissioner of essential s...
Relevance of the United Nations
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Relevance of the United Nations

In the Backdrop of the Developments in Afghanistan (Image: UN Photo) The problem in the case of Afghanistan is that most of the permanent members of the UNSC have their own vested interests instead of unbiased and necessary action over an emerging situation. If the objective of the US to invade Afghanistan was not nation building, was it to destroy terror outfits taking refuge in it? Hasn’t the US handed over Afghanistan to the same group it sought to vanquish initially? With no clear vision, the US has not only abandoned Afghan people and left them in the hands of Taliban.The UN today has become a web of bureaucratic procedures with all the participating nations playing politics for their own vested interests. Afghanistan is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises of the ...
Forsaken Hindus of Malaysia
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Forsaken Hindus of Malaysia

In contrast to their global counterparts, the Indian diaspora in Malaysia, have performed dismally on all social and economic indicators.Practitioners of other religions, particularly Hindus have been systematically subjugated, denied basic rights and protection from the state.The genesis of the problem lies in Islam-supremacist and Malay-supremacist laws. Then there are a host of other laws like apostasy, blasphemy etc which slowly but surely stifles anything that is non-Islamic.The very same country for which their forefathers sacrificed lives has not marked anything beyond a whimper of protest. In 2007 a 100-year-old temple of Hindus dedicated to Goddess Maha Mariamman was demolished in Padang Jawa in Malaysia. In the previous year between April and May, several temples were red...
US Treasury Warns Chinese Acquisition of Semiconductor Firm Magnachip Corp Poses Security Risks
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US Treasury Warns Chinese Acquisition of Semiconductor Firm Magnachip Corp Poses Security Risks

The U.S. Treasury Department said the sale of Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. to a Chinese private equity firm poses “risks to national security,” as Chinese investments in critical technologies meet with enhanced U.S. scrutiny, EpochTimes reports. Magnachip, a South Korean producer for display and power chips, sold its controlling stake in late March to Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital in an all-cash deal worth about $1.4 billion. Since then, regulatory authorities in countries including the United States and South Korea have been reviewing the deal. On Aug. 27, The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the U.S. interagency panel overseen by the Treasury Department that scrutinizes foreign deals for national security implications, sent a lette...
South Korea’s Parliament Passes Bill to Curb Dominance of Google, Apple in Charging Commissions
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South Korea’s Parliament Passes Bill to Curb Dominance of Google, Apple in Charging Commissions

On Tuesday, South Korea’s parliament approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems. The bill effectively stops the tech giants from charging commissions on in-app purchases. Dubbed the “Anti-Google law, 180 voted in favor out of 188 attending to pass the amendment to the Telecommunications Business Act in the South Korean parliament. The amendment bans app store operators with dominant market positions from forcing payment systems on content providers and “inappropriately” delaying the review of, or deleting, mobile content from app markets. It also allows the South Korean government to require an app market operator to “prevent damage to users and protect the rights and interests of use...
Chinese military arresting Tibetans for having photos of the Dalai Lama
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Chinese military arresting Tibetans for having photos of the Dalai Lama

(Representative image. Source: https://www.khabdha.org/) The Chinese military has reportedly carried out mass arrests in Dza Wonpo Town in occupied Tibet. On 22 August 200 military personnel in military vehicles swooped on the town and conducted search operations in homes and Buddhist monasteries and arrested 50, reports FreeTibet.org. The report states that around 30 local Tibetans from the town and 19 monks from Dza Wonpo Monastery were summoned to police custody and detained during the military search operation conducted from 22 to 24 August. They were arrested and detained on suspicion of having photos of exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama on their mobile phones, posting them online, and placing his photos on the altars at their home and in the monastery. None of the deta...
Fallout of US Troop exit: Taliban gains access to $85 billion of American military equipment, says US Congressman
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Fallout of US Troop exit: Taliban gains access to $85 billion of American military equipment, says US Congressman

(Image credit: AP) The Taliban now has access to $85 billion worth of American military equipment and the bio-metric data of the Afghans who have assisted US and allies over the past 20 years. As the US troops exit Afghanistan, the Taliban now has its hands on at least 75,000 military vehicles, 200 airplanes and helicopters and 600,000 small arms. This information was shared by Republican Congressman Jim Banks. Jim Banks, a former US Navy reservist, addressed the press in Washington and said that Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 percent of the countries in the world. Other equipment seized by the Taliban includes night-vision goggles, body armour and medical supplies, he said. Claiming that the Taliban will now have access to biometric devices which have the f...
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with neighboring Morocco over the latter’s ‘hostile acts’
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Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with neighboring Morocco over the latter’s ‘hostile acts’

Algeria has formally cut diplomatic ties with neighboring Morocco over the latter's 'hostile acts'. The decision was revealed on Tuesday by Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra who said the move was due to a series of hostile acts by Morocco. The announcement comes nearly a week after President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told a meeting of Algeria’s High Security Council that “incessant hostile acts perpetrated by Morocco have meant the need for a revision in relations between the two countries and the intensification of security checks” at the western borders with Morocco, the official APS news agency reported. “Algeria has decided to break diplomatic relations with Morocco starting today,” Ramtane Lamamra said at a news conference, in which he read a statement from the president. The cut...