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New Delhi, Sep 15 (EFE).- At least 175 people have been killed, more than a thousand wounded and dozens remain missing in India’s northeastern state of Manipur since a wave of ethnic violence broke out in May and continues to affect the region. More than four months of conflict in...
Brasilia, Sept 14 (EFE). – Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison the first of the 1,390 defendants charged in the January 8 uprising, when a mob of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of the nation’s three branches of government a week...
Ana Milena Male Los Angeles, United States, Sept 14 (EFE).- Calls for Congress to approve a path to citizenship for the more than half-million people covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) multiplied Thursday after a federal judge ruled the immigration benefit illegal. From coast to coast, immigrant advocates...
Islamabad, Sep 14 (EFE).- At least 11 people, including a leader of the religious party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) were wounded on Thursday in an explosion in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan. «The convoy of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was going from Quetta to Kalat when it was targeted by a...
Dhaka, Sept 14 (EFE).- A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced two officials of a local rights group to two years in prison for allegedly publishing «misleading information» on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions in the country, defying growing international calls to halt their trial. Judge AM Julfiker Hayet of Dhaka...
New Delhi, Sep 14 (EFE).- The Taliban government has denied violating the rights of Afghan women in the country, even as they face worldwide condemnation for curtailing the fundamental women’s rights, particularly their access to education and employment, since regaining power in 2021. The Taliban’s minister for the propagation of...
Moscow, Sep 14 (EFE).- Russia on Thursday denounced another attack by Ukraine against its Black Sea Fleet and the annexed Crimean peninsula, a day after a Ukrainian missile attack against a shipyard in Crimea damaged two military ships. “On September 14, at about 05.00, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to...
New Delhi, Sep 13 (EFE).- The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced a meeting with leaders of all political parties of the country, set to be held on Sunday, a day before a special session of the parliament whose agenda has not been revealed. The invitation...
Beijing, Sep 13 (EFE).- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in Beijing during the latter’s official visit to the country, which began on Sep. 8. The two leaders agreed to boost bilateral ties to an «all-weather strategic partnership,» state broadcaster CCTV reported. In a...
Tripoli, Sep 13 (EFE).- Cyclone Daniel has left at least 6,872 dead and more than 10,000 missing in Libya after wreaking havoc during the weekend, according to provisional figures announced by the Presidential Council chief Mohamed Al Manfi on Wednesday. In a televised address, Al Manfi insisted on the urgency...
Kyiv, Sep 13 (EFE).- Russia again attacked Ukraine’s southern Odesa region with Shahed drones overnight, damaging port infrastructure and injuring seven people, the head of the Ukrainian Military Administration in the area reported on Wednesday. A billboard reads the motto «Protecting the future» on July 26, 2023 in Odessa, Ukraine....
Seoul, Sep 13 (EFE).- North Korea on Wednesday launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan at a time when leader Kim Jong-un is in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin. In a statement, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that it had detected two short-range...
