Wajeeha Bilal
Cold wars and proxy warfare have always influenced the world politics as every country is in the race to win the superpower label that can project its dominating power and influence anywhere in the world. Perched on the canvas of influence, the modern-day conflicts between superpowers are fought in the fields of propaganda and subliminal messaging rather than battlefields. The last two decades have seen a spike in the cold war posturing between China and the US. The latter has ratcheted up the narrative in the world of social media, it has become obvious that the play is in motion, yet it requires online strategies and tactics to stay in the race.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Siouxsie Wiles - Why I won t be debunking vaccine BS
15 May, 2021 12:07 AM
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New Zealander of the Year, microbiologist and infectious diseases expert Dr Siouxsie Wiles. Photo / Natalie Slade
New Zealander of the Year, microbiologist and infectious diseases expert Dr Siouxsie Wiles. Photo / Natalie Slade
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OPINION:
Siouxsie Wiles wants to talk about all the fake news about vaccines that s floating around and popping into people s letterboxes. But don t expect her to debunk it. She explains her thinking.
Right now, a number of groups and individuals are waging what looks like a coordinated campaign here in New Zealand. Their aim is to disrupt our Covid-19 vaccine rollout. What makes it all the more shocking is that these groups are being helped by people who look, and in some cases even are, legitimate medical and health professionals.
Universities should establish anti-money-laundering practices
Reports that the tuition fees of West African students at United Kingdom universities could be used for money-laundering purposes have put universities in Africa that receive cash on the alert, underscoring the significance of anti-money-laundering regulations.
More pressure is put on UK educational establishments to not accept tuition fees in cash and to file suspicious activity reports when they have concerns, according to Helena Wood, associate fellow at the UK-based Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.
However, she told
University World News that the nature of the threat should be investigated further before blanket regulation is considered.
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According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), one-third of fish stocks are overfished while another 60% cannot sustain increases in fishing, a problem exacerbated by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. It doesn’t have to be this way, and a recent study suggests that States can better detect and curtail IUU fishing through improved sharing of fisheries information.
One reason overfishing is such a persistent problem is that fishing vessels frequently operate across international boundaries, and many governments lack the technological, operational, and institutional capacity they need to collect, analyze, and share information about what’s happening in their waters.
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District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and trained staff.
Its modern appearance made it all the more surprising that two Christian nurses have been accused of blasphemy against the Qu’ran by their colleagues, found guilty by a hospital tribunal, beaten, fired from their jobs, charged with violating section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code and jailed.
In Pakistan, there are effectively three outcomes for victims of an allegation of blasphemy: guilty (and blasphemy is punishable by life imprisonment), innocent (which is unlikely because judges fear assassination), and rotting in jail for decades while their lawyers appeal the verdict.