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    Pakistan's new cyber law sparks free speech concerns

    According to Patricia Gossman of Human Rights Watch, Pakistan's amended Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act "neither respects fundamental human rights nor protects the public from legitimate online security threats."

    South Asia
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    Israeli strike on hospital tent camp ignites a fire that burns dozens

    An Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip early Monday killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen

    West Asia
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    MBS's Crackdown: A Saudi Mother Sentenced For 34 Years For Tweeting

    A Saudi university student who had returned home for a vacation was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on her personal Twitter account. 

    West Asia
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    Israel, Turkey Restore Full Diplomatic Ties

    Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Wednesday and agreed on reinstating their respective ambassadors and general consuls, thus restoring full diplomatic ties.

    West Asia
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    All 11 Life Imprisonment Convicts In Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Case Released

    All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family on Monday walked out of Godhra sub-jail.

    South Asia
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    Free Period Products' Access In This Country, A First In The World

    Scotland will on Monday become the first country in the world to ensure universal access to free period products following the passing of landmark legislation in 2020.

    Lifestyle
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    81 People Beheaded In Saudi Arabia In Single Day

    Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people, most of them pro-democracy activists in what is now known as the largest known mass execution carried out in a single day in the modern history of conservative Arab kingdom.

    West Asia
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    Speedy Pilot Fined for Shaking Central Israel, Terrifying Civilians

    An Israeli F-35 fighter pilot was fined 500 shekels ($150) Thursday for exceeding the speed limit over central Israel this week, causing several sonic booms that shook windows and frightened civilians.

    World
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    Saudi Arabia: Abdullah al-Huwaiti Sentenced To Death A Second Time

    A Saudi man whose death sentence for alleged crimes committed when he was a minor was overturned last year has been given a new death sentence, his family said on Wednesday.

    West Asia
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    Female Dancer Shot Dead In Pakistan In Second Such Killing In A Month

     A 19-year-old female dancer has been shot dead in Pakistan's Punjab province, the second such killing of an entertainer in the last one month in the country. Ayesha was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday evening

    South Asia
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    5 Key Ukrainian Cities Russia Is Trying To Take

    As Russia pushes deep into Ukraine, with a vast armored column closing on the capital Kyiv, we look at the key cities its forces are targeting. Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Berdyansk and Kherson are major cities.

    World
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    'Left Alone' by West, Ukraine Offers Neutrality; Russia Calls for Surrender

    The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continued for the second day, with explosions reported in Kiev as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rued being "left alone" by the West.

    World
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    Indonesia protests after Saudi Arabia executes domestic maid

    Tuti Tursilawati, a mother of one, had been convicted of murdering her employer, who workers rights’ group Migrant Care said was trying to rape her at the time. 

    Southeast Asia
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    'Khashoggi was choked and then dismembered in Saudi mission'

    Turkish judicial officials say prominent Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul earlier this month.

    West Asia
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    Susan Rice: ‘Time for Saudi Crown Prince To Go’

    The crisis in United States-Saudi relations precipitated by the brazen murder of Jamal Khashoggi raises a critical question that the Trump administration plainly wants to avoid: Can the United States.

    West Asia
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    Korean NGOs protest against conferment of Seoul Peace Prize to Modi, call it a 'disgrace'

    At least 20 South Korean nonprofits, including human rights groups, have raised strong objections to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi being awarded the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize.

    South Asia
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    Yemen’s plight still invisible as Khashoggi murder comes to light

    Dubai:- The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has triggered a diplomatic and public relations (PR) crisis for Saudi Arabia, but little may change for the victims of the Yemen war.

    West Asia
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    Indonesian plane crashes into sea with 189 passengers, crew

    An Indonesian Lion Air Boeing 737 carrying 189 passengers and crew crashed into the sea off the Indonesian coast shortly after take-off from Jakarta, the search and rescue agency said on Monday.

    Southeast Asia
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    Turkey demands extradition of 18 Saudis in Khashoggi case

    Turkish prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, authorities said on Friday, after President Tayyip Erdogan.

    West Asia
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    Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran

    Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, the Saudi intelligence chief taking the fall for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hobnobbed in New York with Michael Flynn and other members of the transition.

    West Asia
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    Saudi changes its story,admits Khashoggi death 'premeditated'

    Saudi Arabia has changed its story about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi yet again, admitting his killing was premeditated a few days after claiming his death was accidental.

    West Asia
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    After killing, Saudi Arabia's formidable PR machine shows cracks

    When the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 by 19 hijackers – 15 of them from Saudi Arabia – the kingdom switched into lobbying overdrive, determined to preserve a critical relationship.

    West Asia
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    Footage of Saudi wearing Khashoggi's clothes released by Turkish investigators

    Videos have emerged of a Saudi suspected of being behind Jamal Khashoggi’s murder walking around Istanbul in the journalist’s clothes shortly after he was last seen - while footage released on Monday.

    West Asia
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    Jamal Khashoggi's murder: The West's selective outrage

    The outrage by Western governments is in stark contrast to their silence over and, in the case of the US and UK, active support of Saudi Arabia's bloody war in Yemen that has left "as many as 10,000 dead and 8.4 million.

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