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The long outreach of Chinese security establishment
Whether it is the Uighur issue or tracking those whom China suspects of being involved in anti-China activities or those having indulged in financial crime, Chinese intelligence has been actively pursuing such targets across the world. Healthy relations are exploited by the Chinese to extract mileage on the security front to serve their purpose, as per the Russian daily ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta'.
India to take pivotal role against terror as head of UNSC counter-terror panel
India will be taking over the leadership of the CTC from Tunisia and hopes to build on the gains from Thursday's meeting of the Council on terrorism threats that he presided over. Addressing reporters outside the Security Council chamber after the meeting, he said that he was happy that "a very strong, substantive, clear press statement" was adopted by the Council that addresses the key concerns of India.
'For what?': Joe Biden stands ground on Afghanistan exit
At a time when roughly two-thirds of Americans say they think the Afghanistan war wasn't worth fighting, Biden stood his ground on his decision to exit Afghanistan nearly 20 years after the September 11 attacks. "Are we gonna go to war because of what's goin' on in Tajikistan? What do you think?", Biden told ABC News in a wide ranging interview on America's exit from its longest war.
Taliban hunting down Afghans in military and police: Report
The confidential paper was produced by the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses, which provides the UN with intelligence information. "The Taliban are arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban," the BBC reported. It said that those at particular risk are people with positions in the military, police and investigative units.
Indo-Canadians term Canada's ban on flights from India as 'discriminatory'
As a result of the ban, Indian students and family-class returnees are taking indirect routes to reach Canada, costing them $4,000-$6,000 per person. They are travelling to Canada via Mexico, the Maldives, Doha, Belgrade and Cairo, where they stop for two to 10 nights before taking a Covid test and boarding onward flights. The Canadian authorities suspect that travellers from India are using fake documents about Covid vaccination.
Taliban flag torn down in first signal of popular opposition
Demonstrations in the city of Asadabad, in which white Taliban flags were torn down, were among the first signs of popular opposition to the Taliban since their stunning advance across the country and the capture of Kabul on August 15. It was unclear if the casualties resulted from the firing or from the crowd crush it triggered, said a witness, Mohammed Salim.
Jaishankar calls out countries protecting terrorists with innocents' blood
Speaking at the Security Council on the international threat of terrorism, he drew attention to the roles of Pakistan and China in providing support to terrorist groups without mentioning the two by name. "Unfortunately, there are also some countries who seek to undermine or subvert our collective resolve to fight terrorism. This cannot be allowed to pass.
Plasma treatment has no benefit on Covid patients: US NIH
"We were hoping that the use of Covid-19 convalescent plasma would achieve at least a 10 per cent reduction in disease progression in this group, but instead, the reduction we observed was less than 2 per cent," said Clifton Callaway, principal investigator for the trial. The researchers randomly assigned the participants to receive treatment with either high-titre Covid-19 convalescent plasma.
3 killed, over 30 injured in Pak explosion
According to Dawn news, the blast went off during an Ashura procession and videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing towards the site of the incident. Youm-e-Ashur, the 10th of Moharram, is being observed across the country with due solemnity to pay homage to the supreme sacrifice rendered by Hazrat Imam Hussain and his companions at Karbala.
Govt to prioritise rescue of Indian workers from Afghanistan
These Indian workers have been working at the different projects in Afghanistan and are anxiously waiting to return to India after the Taliban took full control of the country on August 15, 2021. Amid reports of clashes between Taliban militia and the Afghan Army in some places like Jalalabad and Khost, it has become challenging for Indian authorities to contact Indian workers.
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