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EDM festival Tomorrowland 2021 cancelled by Belgian officials
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 18 (ANI): Tomorrowland, one of the biggest electronic and dance music festivals in the world, has been forced to cancel its 2021 event by Belgium authorities.
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UN rights experts 'extremely alarmed' by forced organ harvesting of minori
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): United Nations (UN) human rights experts have sounded alarm over the reports of alleged 'organ harvesting' that is targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, who are currently in detention in China
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COVID-19 outbreak in US embassy in Kabul leaves 114 people sick, 1 dead
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 18 (ANI): The US embassy in Kabul has been forced into immediate lockdown due to a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: 13-yr-old Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam, father see
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 16 (ANI): The forced conversion of girls from religious minorities to Islam continues unabated in Pakistan and its latest victim is a 13-year-old Christian girl.
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Shiv Sena MLA makes contractor sit on Mumbai's waterlogged road, gets garb
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13 (ANI): In a shocking incident, a Shiv Sena MLA forced a civic contractor to sit on a waterlogged road in Mumbai on Saturday and asked workers to dump garbage on him for allegedly not getting the drains cleaned properly.
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Delta flight from Los Angeles makes emergency landing due to unruly passen
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], June 13 (ANI/Xinhua): A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta was forced to divert its route and make an emergency landing Friday night after an unruly passenger made threats and attacked flight attendants, the airline said Saturday.
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Overseas Pakistani Christian group holds demonstration against kidnapping,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], June 13 (ANI): Overseas Pakistani Christian alliance organised a demonstration jointly with Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) against kidnapping, forced conversion, forced marriages of Pakistani minor Christian's girls before Dutch Parliament on Saturday.
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Biden pushes G7 leaders to call out China on forced labour in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 12 (ANI): US President Joe Biden is pushing world leaders to call out China over allegations of forced labour in Xinjiang as the Group of Seven (G7) leaders prepare to unveil a global infrastructure plan meant to compete with Beijing.
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Court seeks Tihar's response on terror accused claiming he was forced to c
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): A Special NIA Court of Delhi on Friday seeks Tihar Jail authority's response on an application of terror accused claiming that he was beaten up by other inmates inside the jail premises and forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' and sought appropriate direction to t
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US senator chides Apple, Nike for 'using forced labour' from China
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 11 (ANI): A US senator on Thursday slammed top American companies including Amazon, Nike and Apple for using forced labour from China, accusing them of making Americans complicit in Beijing crimes against Uyghurs.
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Taiwan nationals in Norway file lawsuit for being forced to register as 'C
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Oslo [Norway], June 10 (ANI): Battling an identity crisis, Taiwan nationals who have been legally fighting the Norwegian government over being forced to register as 'Chinese' instead of Taiwanese, have now taken the matter to European court of human rights.
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Global parliamentary alliance calls for reform of supply chains over force
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Group of Seven (G7) summit in UK, a cross-party Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) has called on G7 leaders to reform global supply chains in light of widespread forced labour abuses in Xinjiang region.
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