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Excessive use reduces effect of US sanctions: Iranian spokesman
A number of countries are thinking about de-dollarising their trade by using local currencies, Amoui told official IRNA news agency on Saturday. The Russian and Iranian banks have already adopted new financial mechanism for trade transactions excluding the dollar, he added. Amoui also dismissed US concerns regarding the military and technological cooperation between Iran and Russia, including drone technology, Xinhua news agency reported.
Another attack on Hindu homes, temple in Bangladesh
The violence in Digholia village took place on Friday evening over a young Hindu boy's social media post. A house belonging to a Hindu family was also set afire. The violence took place after the Friday prayers. Police had fired warning shots to disperse the Islamists, said police inspector Haran Chandra Paul. Paul said the Hindu boy allegedly posted something on Facebook that angered the Muslims.
Rise in Hinduphobia on social media, messaging platforms: US university researchers
"Anti-Hindu Disinformation: A Case Study of Hinduphobia on Social Media", prepared by members of the Network Contagion Lab at the varsity, chronicles the shocking trend, directed toward the Hindu community across numerous social media platforms, using artificial intelligence to analyse 1 million tweets to understand development of a disguised and coded language pattern shared on social networks.
353 children killed in Russian invasion of Ukraine
Most of the children were affected in Donetsk region (353), Kharkiv (191), Kiev (116), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (61), Mykolayiv (53), Kherson (52), Zaporizhzhia (31), according to the Prosecutor General's Office. According to the official information of the juvenile prosecutors, 353 children were killed and more than 662 children were injured," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.
Prachanda for reviewing Nepal, India's 1950 peace and friendship treaty
Prachanda, who is currently in New Delhi and has met Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval among others, made the remarks at an event organised by the Foundation for Public Awareness and Policy. He said that even after solving the problems between the two countries through diplomatic dialogue, there should be no delay in reviewing the treaty.
Russia storing weapons in nuclear plant
Russian forces are using these weapons to fire at the area around the city of Nikopol, Ukrainska Pravda reported. "As for the Zaporizhzhia NPP the situation there is very difficult, and every day it is becoming more so," Petro Kotin, President of Energoatom (National Atomic Power Generation Company) was quoted by Interfax Ukraine.
Pakistan Army has launched major campaign to intimidate critical journalists
"It is clear from the data that the armed forces have launched a major campaign to intimidate critical journalists. This kind of interference, which is absolutely intolerable, must stop at once or else the Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, will be held directly responsible for the decline in press freedom in Pakistan."
NASA's James telescope reveals stunning images of Jupiter, its moon
The data demonstrates Webb's ability to track solar system targets and produce images and spectra with unprecedented detail, the US space agency said in a statement. New images show distinct bands that encircle Jupiter as well as the Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow the Earth.
New NASA mission launched to study airborne mineral dust
EMIT's state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, developed by the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, will collect more than a billion dust-source-composition measurements around the globe over the course of a year. The mission will identify the composition of mineral dust from Earth's arid regions. Desert regions produce most of the mineral dust that makes its way into the atmosphere.
Russian civil society will remain crippled for generations, says Zelenskyy
"There are no such words in normal human language that can describe the condition to which the Russian state has degraded. It is a double crime - to destroy pedagogical universities so that there won't be educational institutions and new educators cannot be trained... But let the terrorists not hope that it will give them anything," Ukrainska Pravda quoted President Zelenskyy as saying.
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