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Sri Lanka imposes police curfew in Western province amid unrest in island
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 2 (ANI): Sri Lanka has imposed a police curfew in Western Province for six hours amid unrest after protests were held outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence over the worsening economic crisis in the island nation.
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Afghanistan: 2 killed, 8 injured in car bomb blast in Herat
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Herat [Afghanistan], April 1 (ANI): Two people were killed and eight others wounded in a car bomb blast in Afghanistan's western province of Herat on Friday.
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SA batter Zubayr Hamza tests positive for prohibited substance under ICC a
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], March 23 (ANI): Cricket South Africa (CSA) the South African Cricketers' Association (SACA) and Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) on Wednesday announced that Proteas batter Zubayr Hamza has tested positive for a prohibited substance under the Internatio
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Pakistani women continue to struggle to break biases
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Pakistani women, including those in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, continue to struggle to break stigma attached to their gender, and navigating life is still an uphill battle for most women and girls.
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Ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang among Ukrainian refugees in Poland
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], March 6 (ANI): Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an ethnic Kazakh from China's North-Western province of Xinjiang has found his way to Poland with other Ukrainian refugees, a media report said on Friday.
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Death toll in Indonesia quake rises to 10 with about 13,000 displaced
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], February 28 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 10 people were killed and about 13,000 others displaced after a 6.1-magnitude quake rocked Indonesia's western province of West Sumatra on Friday, officials said on Sunday.
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7 killed, 85 injured as strong quake hits western Indonesia
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Jakarta (Indonesia) [India], February 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Seven people were killed and 85 others wounded as a 6.1-magnitude quake destroyed over 10,000 buildings, houses and infrastructure facilities in Indonesia's western province of West Sumatra on Friday, a senior official said.
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Turkey detains 197 illegal immigrants
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], February 11 (ANI/Xinhua): Turkish security forces detained Friday 197 illegal immigrants and 10 suspected human smugglers in Turkey's western province of Izmir, state-run TRT broadcaster reported.
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4 killed in roadside bomb explosion in western Iraq
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], February 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Three Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed Tuesday in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a security source said.
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Afghans sell kidneys as they face starvation
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Herat [Afghanistan], January 28 (ANI): Families in Afghanistan's western province of Herat are being forced to sell their kidneys amid dire poverty and starvation.
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Two drones shot down in western Iraq
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq] January 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Two drones targeting an Iraqi military airbase in the country's western province of Anbar were shot down without casualties on Tuesday, the Iraqi military said.
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Is China targeting Uyghurs living abroad?
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], December 30 (ANI): Human rights violations of Uyghurs living in Xinjiang in the Western province of China is not a new story.
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