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Switzerland: Uyghurs, Tibetan activists protest outside Olympic Museum aga
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 24 (ANI): Dozens of Uyghurs and Tibetan activists gathered outside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne city here to protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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China's Xi Jinping app created to propagate nationalism, targets women in
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Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): In recent months, local media and public security bureaus across China have reported a surge of mostly men targeting women in romance scams using Study Xi, Strong Nation, an app created by the Communist Party's propaganda department in 2019 to promote the stud
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Eight killed in shooting in South Africa's Cape Town
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], June 24 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from a shooting incident on Wednesday afternoon in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, has risen to eight, the South African Ministry of Police said Thursday.
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Class XII exams: SC refuses to order uniform scheme for assessment for all
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New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday made it clear that there cannot be a uniform scheme for assessment of class XII marks for all state boards across India and refused to pass such order saying each board is independent and autonomous.
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Pakistan reports 1,097 new COVID-19 cases, 951,865 in total
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Pakistan recorded 1,097 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising the total tally to 951,865, official data showed Thursday.
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6 die in Philippine military's helicopter crash
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Manila [Philippines], June 24 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippine Air Force (PAF) on Thursday said that one of its newly acquired S-70i Black Hawk utility helicopters crashed north of Manila on Wednesday night, killing six crew members.
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5.6 magnitude quake hits 253 km S of Ambon, Indonesia
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Hong Kong, June 24 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 253 km south of Ambon, Indonesia at 2.24 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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US adds 5 Chinese companies to export restrictions list over rights abuses
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Washington DC [US], June 24 (ANI): The United States has put five Chinese companies on its Entity List that restricts their ability to receive exports, over human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang province.
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Brazil sees record 115,228 daily COVID-19 cases
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Sao Paulo [Brazil], June 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil has reported a record daily high of 115,228 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the national tally to 18,169,881, the Ministry of Health said.
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China continues efforts to arbitrarily detain, torture people under RSDL c
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Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): Almost eight years after Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the draconian system - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) - Beijing continues to step up its efforts to arbitrarily detain, coerce confessions from, torture, threaten and mi
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Bangladesh reports 5,727 new cases of COVID-19
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Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 23 (ANI/Xinhua): Bangladesh reported 5,727 new cases of COVID-19 and 85 fatalities related to the virus on Wednesday, taking the overall count to 866,877 and the death toll to 13,787.
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Indonesia detects 211 more contagious variants of concern
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Jakarta [Indonesia], June 23 (ANI/Xinhua): As many as 211 or 9.41 per cent of the total 2,242 samples of COVID-19 cases tested with the whole genome sequencing method in Indonesia are more contagious variants of concern, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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