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    Trump ‘Cozying Up to Gulf Despots Blamed for Deaths in Bahrain

    Human Rights Watch issued a statement following Tuesday’s raid in Diraz, saying that the timing of the operation, two days after Trump’s friendly meeting, “can hardly be a coincidence.” 

    West Asia
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    Why international laws matter

    Two Indian citizens have recently been victims of the violation of international law by men in uniform but officials of the government of India, and the nation at large, seem to be fighting only for the rights of one

    South Asia
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    UN body aghast at Saudi move to demolish ancient town

    “The area is of importance not only to local people and the entire cultural landscape of Awamiya, but also has national significance for the history and cultural heritage of Saudi Arabia,” said the UN Special Rapporteur

    Art and Culture
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    Nigeria's Amina Mohammed sworn in as Deputy UN Secretary-General

    Nigeria’s former Minister for Environment, Amina Mohammed, has been officially sworn in as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations at the headquarters in New York.

    World
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    Indian students rally after woman threatened with rape

    A day after nationalist group Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) held its ‘Tiranga’ march in the Indian national  capital, hundreds of students and teachers from Delhi University

    South Asia
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    ASEAN and the Rohingya Crisis

    The worsening plight of Muslim Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state could soon imperil the country’s government, as well as the reputation of its leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

    Southeast Asia
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    Bahrain executes 3 pro democracy activists

    Maya Foa, the director of the death penalty team at Reprieve, said: “It is nothing short of an outrage and a disgraceful breach of international law that Bahrain has gone ahead with these executions.

    West Asia
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    Britain admits selling 500 cluster bombs to Saudi

    The United Kingdom exported 500 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia in the 1980s which the country used in its war on Yemen, an official report shows.The UK delivered 500 BL755 cluster munitions under a government.

    West Asia
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    Saudi's 'used outlawed cluster bombs' in Yemen

    The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen used banned cluster bombs in attacks near two schools this month, Human Rights Watch said.The watchdog said that the alliance fired Brazilian-made rockets.

    West Asia
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    Rohingya man killed after speaking to media

    The headless body of a Muslim villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine State, Myanmar police said on Friday.

    Southeast Asia
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    Leading Bahrain activist questioned over Le Monde article

    “I am writing from a prison in Bahrain where I expect to be tried for criticizing the bombing of Yemen and for revealing the torture committed in the prisons of my country. For that I risk 15 years in prison"

    West Asia
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    These Plucky Afghan Women Share A Taste Of Their Land

    When Mariam ran, into a stranger's home in Kabul to escape the Taliban, she did not imagine that one day she would be walking the streets where no one cared if she covered her hair.

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