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China on the right side of history over Ukraine war – foreign minister
Arab News 20 Mar 2022
SHANGHAI. China stands on the right side of history over the Ukraine crisis as time will tell, and its position is in line with the wishes of most countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said ... During the video call, Xi told Biden the war in Ukraine must end as soon as possible and called on NATO nations to hold a dialogue with Moscow ... ....
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Ukraine President Zelensky says siege of Mariupol involved war crimes
The Telegraph India 20 Mar 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's siege of the port city of Mariupol was "a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come", while local authorities said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border ... Advertisement. Reuters could not independently verify the claim ... "To do this to a peaceful city... U.S.
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After rejecting peace talks, Houthis attack Saudi energy, desalination facilities
The Arab Weekly 20 Mar 2022
RIYADH–. The Saudi-led Arab coalition said early on Sunday that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias launched missile and drone strikes on energy and water desalination facilities in the kingdom that caused some material damage but no deaths ... There was no loss of life as of now,” said the statement carried on state media ... .
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Israeli police prepare for mass funeral of major rabbi
Wtop 20 Mar 2022
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities were preparing for hundreds of thousands of people to descend upon a city near Tel Aviv on Sunday for the funeral of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was one of the most influential scholars in the religious community in Israel. He died Friday at the age of 94 ... Source .
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Car crashes into Belgian carnival crowd, killing 4, official says
ABC7 20 Mar 2022
A car slammed into about 100 people, killing four, on Sunday morning during a carnival in Strépy-Bracquegnies, Belgium, officials said ... local time, an official said ... .
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‘We should be prepared’: bioethicists look at how to care for China’s gene-edited babies
South China Morning Post 20 Mar 2022photo: AP / Revolutionary Guard via AP
For the US to Drop the IRGC From Its Blacklist Would Be a Boon for Terrorism
The Algemeiner 20 Mar 2022
Opinion. Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) gather around the coffins fellow IRGC members who were killed by a suicide car bomb, during their funerals in Isfahan, Iran, Feb. 16, 2019. Photo. Morteza Salehi/ Tasnim News Agency/via Reuters ... At the time of writing, Washington has not yet made a decision in this regard ... 0 ... Gen ... .
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Five 4,000-year-old ancient tombs discovered in Egypt
MENA FN 20 Mar 2022
(MENAFN - IANS) Cairo, March 20 (IANS) The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of five 4,000-year-old ancient tombs in the Saqqara archaeological sites southwest of ... .
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What are hypersonic missiles and why is Russia using them?
The Guardian 20 Mar 2022
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'A National Embarrassment': Boris Johnson Condemned For Comparing Ukraine War To Brexit Vote
Huffington Post 20 Mar 2022
Boris Johnson has been severely criticised after he compared Ukrainians’ fight against the Russian invasion to the UK’s decision to vote for Brexit. The prime minister said that “like the people of Ukraine”, the UK had “chosen freedom” in the 2016 referendum ... In his keynote address to the Tory spring conference in Blackpool, Johnson said ... Related... .
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What’s the plan, Joe? The west lacks a long-term strategy to defeat Putin
The Observer 20 Mar 2022
What’s the plan, Joe? When he descends on Brussels this week for an emergency Nato summit, US president Joe Biden will proudly point to his big achievement during the Ukraine crisis. maintaining the unity of the alliance and keeping out of the war. Biden wants Russia to lose, to be seen to fail. But bold, decisive action to that end is lacking ... Fine ... .
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In Sri Lanka, as economic crisis worsens, two men die waiting in queue for fuel
Metro USA 20 Mar 2022
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation ... For weeks people have been queuing up at pumps, often for hours, and the country has been under rolling power cuts ... dollar ... ($1 = 275.0000 Sri Lankan rupees) ... .
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Deadly attacks on women rise sharply in Iraqi Kurdistan
Manila Bulletin 20 Mar 2022
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother — bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region ... In the first two months of 2022, 11 women were killed in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, most of them shot, said the official based in Sulaimaniyah.
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Indian Muslims deprived of religious and human rights: Speakers at IAMC event
The Siasat Daily 20 Mar 2022
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), along with five other groups, raised awareness about the threat of mass violence faced by Indian Muslims on Saturday. They spoke about “egregious human rights violations” happening in the country that cannot be ignored. The event was called “The Impending Indian Muslim Genocide and Global Islamophobia” ... .
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Taliban to open high schools for girls next week
The Times of India 20 Mar 2022
KABUL (AFGHANISTAN). The Taliban will allow girls to return to class when high schools open on March 22, ending the uncertainty over whether the Islamic group would allow full access to education for girls. Since the Taliban took control of the country in mid-August last year, it had barred girls from going to schools across Afghanistan ... .