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The writer teaches politics and sociology at Lums. THE aftermath of the brutal and utterly tragic murder of Noor Mukaddam is following familiar patterns seen in instances of high-profile cases of gender-based violence. Sections of the Pakistani internet-using public, intelligentsia, and state elite, particularly men, resort to a range of familiar tropes to analyse such tragedies and provide prescriptions. Such voices become especially loud in response to any sustained anger and advocacy from ge...

UGANDA ( MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Namugongo in Kampala, Uganda, are responding to the needs of people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda is still in lockdown due to the recent deadly second wave. Health experts with the Uganda Medical Association have noted that 80 percent of people infected do not know they have the virus. Most people in Uganda are no longer working because of the restrictions imposed by the government to contain the spread of the virus. Thi...

Uganda: Families impacted by pandemic lockdown receive food Format Don Bosco Namugongo is helping to feed those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with Don Bosco Namugongo in Kampala, Uganda, are responding to the needs of people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda is still in lockdown due to the recent deadly second wave. Health experts with the Uganda Medical Association have noted that 80 percent of people infected do not know they have t...

VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JULY 19 Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  19/07/2021    09:28 GMT+7 Shares to move sideways with low liquidity The market will continue to move sideways this week with low liquidity to gradually form a strong enough accumulation base before returning to the uptrend, analysts said. The VN-Index was maintaining the recovery...

Follow RT on David Matthews is a writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and the Observer, and on the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of several books, including Voices of the Windrush Generation. Follow him on Twitter @mrdavematthews. Chronic levels of sugar-related diabetes have blighted the Caribbean for years due to slavery. Now the UK and US are experiencing the pain it causes – which makes Britain’s apparent rejection of a fat tax all the m...

AFP. One local elected official said “attackers on motorbikes killed at least 15 people around 3:30 pm (1430 GMT), four in the village of Danga-Zouani and four in the nearby village of Korombara. The others were killed in their fields.” A senior local official spoke of “at least 10 people killed” by the motorbike raiders, some of them farmers sowing their fields, but added that the toll was “still provisional.” “We have also been told that grain stores and huts were burned,” he ...

US imperialism’s criminal debacle in Afghanistan US troops pulled out of the sprawling Bagram Air Base at three in the morning last Friday, without notifying the Afghan government forces meant to replace them, and cutting off the power on the way out, an act that triggered an invasion of the base by a small army of looters. This ignoble retreat is a fitting symbol of the debacle wrought by 20 years of US war and occupation in Afghanistan. Bagram, built by the Soviet military in the 1950s and ...

30 years of independence: Kazakhstan eyes to widen strategic partnership with India SECTIONS Share Synopsis PM Narendra Modi was in Kazakhstan in July 2015 (bilateral visit) and June 2017 (SCO summit). Modi participated in the 17th SCO Summit in Astana on June 8-9, 2017 and India was admitted as a full member of the SCO during the Summit. It is important to note that Kazakhstan along with Russia played important roles in getting India admitted to the SCO. Reuters A general view shows the the ci...

Thirteen Boko Haram fighters, four civilians killed in Niger, says military Issued on: 02/07/2021 - 02:57 Nigers anti-riot police officers arrive in a street with smoke and projectiles on the ground as opposition supporters protest after the announcement of the results of the countrys presidential run-off in Niamey, on February 23, 2021. © AFP, Issouf Sanogo 2 min Thirteen Boko Haram fighters have been killed in clashes in sout...

Covid pandemic and lessons for public health Narayan Sekar @Alsoran Jun 26, 2021, 15:00 IST The pandemic shows no signs of abating. It has come to cause havoc and has wrecked lives of people across the world. It has dented our national economy and lifestyle in many ways. The 5 trillion economy dream is now years away just because of a few quarters of disruption. Importantly, it has cast aside the superfluous arguments about consistent economic growth, emerging global power and such rhetoric ...