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Dhaka — The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500 mark in an AFP tally on Tuesday, after protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest. At least 174 people have died, including several police officers, according to a separate AFP count of victims reported by police and hospitals. What began as demonstrations against politicized admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed last week into some of the worst unrest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tenure. A curfew was imposed and soldiers deployed across the South Asian country, and a nationwide internet blackout drastically restricted the flow...

More than 170 dead, thousands jailed after week of unrest in Bangladesh

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 Narendra Modi made Islamophobic remarks in more than 100 campaign speeches during India’s general election in his desperate bid to return to power for a rare third term, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.Out of a total of 173 campaign speeches, the Indian prime minister allegedly made inflammatory remarks targeting Muslims and other minorities in at least 110, the international human rights group claimed following a survey of Mr Modi’s campaign speeches released on Wednesday.“The hate speech rhetoric by the Indian leader has real world consequences for people who have had their homes demolished, who have been...

Modi made over 100 Islamophobic remarks during India election campaign, says Human Rights Watch

 The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, says the high-profile resignations of authorities close to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are legal after student leaders who organized protests against Hasina’s government issued ultimatums for them to quit.“Legally ... all the steps were taken,” Yunus, 83, told a group of journalists Sunday night.The country’s chief justice, five justices and central bank governor have all resigned in the past few days, part of a dramatic transformation after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a mass uprising. Hasina resigned and fled to India...

Bangladesh interim leader Yunus says resignations of officials close to the ousted Hasina are legal

 A court in India reportedly told a Muslim refugee from Yemen to “go to Pakistan” after he overstayed his visa, echoing a crass Islamophobic dog whistle that is more commonly deployed in online debates by Hindu nationalists in the country.  A judge at the Bombay High Court made the remark while hearing a plea by Khaled Gomaeai Mohammad Hasan challenging a “Leave India Notice” issued to him by police in the western Maharashtra state, according to local media reports.He pleaded for protection from forcible deportation to his home country of Yemen, which has been engaged in an active...

Indian court tells Yemeni Muslim refugee to ‘go to Pakistan’ after overstaying visa

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia -- Indonesia marked 79 years of independence on Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on Jakarta but whose construction has lagged behind schedule. Hundreds of officials and invited guests wearing the traditional clothes of Indonesian...

Indonesia's new capital isn't ready yet. The president is celebrating Independence Day there anyway

The Guardian

A rise in sexual violence means food prices have leapt in CAR as women and girls say they fear working in the fields

‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. On July 28, 2024, a TikTok video posted by Erica W., known as @tasteofmelanin on the platform, garnered significant attention after she exposed disturbing racist decorations in an Airbnb rental. The incident occurred in a rental property that Erica had booked, although the exact location remains unspecified. The video has since gone viral, prompting widespread concern and leading to the removal of the listing from Airbnb's platform.

Airbnb Listing Taken Down After Black Woman Finds Hanging Monkeys and Cotton Used As Decor

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Ain al-Asad air base was targeted by at least two rockets on Monday evening, according to security sources speaking to Reuters. The attack comes as tensions escalate in the Middle East.

Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops attacked with rockets amid escalating tensions in Middle East: report

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Some say a big war will help the country’s enemies. But is anyone listening?

Iranian Insiders Warn That Attacking Israel Is a Trap

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SAN DIEGO — A rarely seen deep-sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study, marine experts said. The silvery, 12-foot-long (3.6-meter) oarfish was found last weekend by a group of snorkelers and kayakers...

Rare deep-sea oarfish found in California, scientists want to know why

The Hill

By installing an interim civilian government made up of only “advisers,” the coup leaders have  helped foster a romanticized Western media narrative of a student-led “revolution” in the country.

Opinion: A quiet military coup in Bangladesh

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Iran’s supreme leader has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran.

Iran’s supreme leader issues order for Iran to strike Israel: Report

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made Islamophobic remarks in the majority of his speeches during the 2024 nationwide elections, according to a Wednesday report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Upon analysis of the 173 speeches he made over the course of the campaigning period, HRW found that 110 of...

India PM Modi used hate speech to fuel his 2024 political campaign: HRW

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BANGKOK — Political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra won the backing of parliament to become Thailand’s youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the warring elites. The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra passed...

Thaksin's 37-year-old daughter becomes new leader of Thailand

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A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to over 28 years in prison for distributing significant amounts of fentanyl and other controlled substances to dealers in the Middle Georgia region. Authorities revealed that investigators uncovered evidence linking the drugs provided by the defendant, 40-year-old Lagary Williams, also known as "Frog," from Atlanta, to a fatal overdose.

Atlanta Man Sentenced to 28 Years for Supplying Deadly Fentanyl Linked to Fatal Overdose

Ultra-right-wing Israeli nationalists stormed two military facilities late Monday, protesting the detention and questioning of nine Israel Defense Forces reservists suspected of raping and abusing a Palestinian prisoner whose injuries were so bad he had to be hospitalized. Social media videos show guards at the Sde Teiman military base and prison, near Beersheba in southern Israel, shouting at and pushing military police who'd arrived to question the reservists, seemingly in defense of the suspects.The Sde Teiman facility is known to hold Palestinians arrested in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the territory's Hamas rulers, in response to the group's...

Alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner reveals stark divisions in Israel

 Exiled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has called for an investigation into the killing of hundreds of students during street protests that toppled her government earlier this month.In a statement posted on X by her son Sajeeb Wazed, Ms Hasina sought “a thorough investigation to identify and bring to justice those responsible for these heinous killings and acts of sabotage”.She is herself facing a murder investigation by the interim government over the fatal police shooting of a man during the protests.“Students, teachers, police officers—including pregnant women—journalists, cultural activists, workers, leaders, activists of the Awami League and its affiliated organisations,...

Sheikh Hasina breaks silence after fleeing Bangladesh: ‘I seek justice from the people of this nation’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina long ignored the democratic backsliding in each other’s countries to forge close ties. With Hasina ousted from power, India’s warnings over the safety of Bangladesh’s Hindu minority smacks of hypocrisy. When Agontuk*, a 21-year-old architecture student in...

India ‘over-invested in Hasina and under-invested in Bangladesh’ – and is now panicking

Dozens of Russia's Wagner mercenaries were killed in a brutal ambush over the weekend by Tuareg rebels in northern Mali following days of fighting near Algeria's border.

Dozens of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries massacred in Mali ambush

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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Bangladesh's Yunus seeks to reassure Indian PM Modi over attacks on minorities

NEW DELHI/DHAKA — Bangladesh's caretaker government told Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Friday that reports of attacks on Hindus and other minorities in the Muslim-majority...

Bangladesh's Yunus seeks to reassure Indian PM Modi over attacks on minorities

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