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Winter Olympics' sponsors keep low profile over Beijing's human rights abu
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 25 (ANI): Sponsors and advertisers of Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 are keeping a low profile over human rights abuses in Xinjiang as firms face risks of missing global marketing opportunities in China, according to a media report.
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Sexual intercourse in marital relationship cannot be labelled as rape, say
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): The sexual intercourse between husband and wife in a marital relationship cannot be labelled as rape but at the worst, it can be called sexual abuse only, advocate RK Kapoor said while opposing the petition demanding criminalisation of marital rape in Del
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Human Rights Watch calls for foreign currency-related sanctions against My
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], January 25 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Myanmar's military will continue to collect massive revenues from natural gas and other extractive sectors unless new targeted sanctions block foreign currency payments supporting the junta's abusive rule on Tuesday.
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Afghan refugee convicted of sexually abusing child at US marine base
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 25 (ANI): An Afghan man has been convicted for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl after both were evacuated following the Taliban's take over of Kabul, US Justice Department informed on Monday.
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Time to boycott China by divesting companies complicit in Uyghur genocide,
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI): An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved. Both men and women endure systematic physical and sexual abuse, including rape and torture. Young men remain absent from the streets of Urumqi, a
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UAE air force destroys missile launcher in Yemen
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], January 24 (ANI/Sputnik): The UAE air force has destroyed a missile launched in northern Yemen after it attempted to hit targets in Abu Dhabi, the UAE Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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The implications of Houthi's drone and missile attack against Abu Dhabi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 24 (ANI): Last Monday's drone and missile attack by Iran-backed Houthis on oil facilities near the airport of Abu Dhabi, in which several fuel tankers were blown up and three people were killed, took most people by surprise.
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UAE defence system detects incoming hostile projectile attacks
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Abu Dhabi [UAE], January 24 (ANI): After a series of hostile attacks by the Houthi faction last week in Abu Dhabi, another incoming hostile projectile were detected by air defence systems in the United Arab Emirates on Monday morning, reported Sputnik News.
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Protestors in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], January 24 (ANI): A few days before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, dozens of protestors took to the street in the capital city of Turkey, calling for the boycott of the mega sporting event over rights abuses in China.
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Security Council condemns Houthi attacks in UAE capital
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI): The members of the UN Security Council on Friday strongly condemned Monday's "heinous terrorist attacks" in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as in other sites in Saudi Arabia.
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Mumbai Police arrests three youths from Haryana in 'Clubhouse' chat case
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 21 (ANI): Mumbai Police arrested three youth from Haryana on Thursday night for allegedly making abusive and objectionable remarks against women on the 'Clubhouse' audio chat app.
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Rights groups want UN to ban Bangladesh's RAB from peacekeeping
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], January 21 (ANI): The UN Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh's "notoriously abusive paramilitary" Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public on Thursday.
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