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The Chinese iron fist Leader XI Jinping was awarded a third five-year term as president Friday, putting him on track to stay in power for life.The endorsement of Xi’s appointment by the ceremonial National People’s Congress was a foregone conclusion for a leader who has sidelined potential rivals and filled the top ranks of the ruling Communist Party with his supporters since taking power in 2012. The vote for Xi was 2,952 to 0 by the NPC, members of which are appointed by the ruling party. He had himself named to a third five-year term as party general secretary in…

Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the presidential candidate to run against two-decade ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an upcoming election that could change the course of the country. Leader of Turkey’s secular and center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kilicdaroglu (pronounced Ke-lich-dar-ou-loo) is widely seen as everything Erdogan is not. He was finally nominated after three days of political bickering among the six-party alliance — just three months before the vote. Perhaps the most important election in Turkey’s modern history, the vote is expected to take place on May 14. It comes just months after a deadly February 6 earthquake rocked the country’s…

Women were taking to the streets from Kabul to Bangkok on Wednesday to mark International Women’s Day and defend rights that are coming under increasing attack. With the Taliban government’s banning of women from universities in Afghanistan, Iran’s repression of the Mahsa Amini protests, new US restrictions on abortion rights, and the Ukraine war’s impact on women, there are many reasons to protest. The femme realisation In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, which the UN called the “most repressive country in the world” for women’s rights, AFP saw around 20 women holding a rare protest in the capital Kabul. Thousands of women also…

Hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in Georgia’s capital, bills after parliament backed a controversial draft law which critics say limits press freedom and suppresses civil society. Protests erupted in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi Wednesday after Georgia’s parliament endorsed a “foreign agent” bill. If it passes, the bill would require individuals and organizations to register as “foreign agents” if they meet certain qualifications. Should the designated individuals and organizations fail to do so and live up to strict reporting requirements, they would face fines and potential prison time. The bill of chaos A bill introduced by the Georgian government in…

Leaders from the world’s poorest nations poured out their disappointment and bitterness at a UN summit on Sunday Mar 5 over the treatment of their countries by richer counterparts. Many made pointed calls for the developed powers to come good with billions of dollars of promised aid to help them escape poverty and battle climate change. The Central African Republic’s president told the UN Least Developed Countries meeting in Doha that his resource-rich but impoverished nation was being “looted” by “Western powers”. Right from the UN’s Secretary-General UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres followed up an attack he made a day earlier…

Mexicans-born 64 nationals have been rescued from an international labour trafficking ring that was operating in Ontario and several people have been charged. At the scene of the crime Deputy police chief Alvaro Almeida confirmed that the information learned through Project Norte was “just as disturbing as it is compelling.” Sixty-four of them were subject to deplorable living conditions with no way out. The saving staff was shocked at the conditions they were living in.” These workers are coerced with promises of a better life, decent wages, quality housing, and eventually documentation. York Regional Police release this photo from the…

A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Ales Bialiatski, Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to 10 years in prison.The harsh punishment of Ales Bialiatski and three of his colleagues was delivered in response to massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office. The Belarusian Iron fist Lukashenko, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who backed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has ruled the ex-Soviet country with an iron fist since 1994. More than 35,000 people were arrested, and thousands were…

Pakistan will get another USD 1.3 billion from all-weather ally China to shore up its fast-depleting forex reserves A giving hand and a special friend Pakistan will get another USD 1.3 billion from all-weather ally China to shore up its fast-depleting forex reserves, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Monday, days after the cash-strapped country received USD 700 million from Beijing. It prompted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to express gratitude to the “special friend” of Pakistan. A willingness to change The Pakistani government has shown a willingness to take unpopular economic decisions like raising taxes, removing blanket subsidies, and artificial…

India marks it place amongst the top 8 India, by virtue of finishing inside the top-three in their group in the recently concluded Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, are among the eight automatic qualifiers for the 2024 edition of the tournament scheduled in Bangladesh. India’s bearer of pride India’s Harmanpreet Kaur has directly qualified for the upcoming edition of the T20 World Cup 2024. The Indian women’s team recently played in the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa and will walk into the next edition of the tournament in Bangladesh. Notably, eight teams have earned direct qualification…

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore Students won AED 1 million by winning the gold medal at the World Government Summit in Dubai. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore Students won AED 1 million by winning the gold medal at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Niyati Totala and Neel Kalpeshkumar Parikh of The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, were awarded the prestigious medal by Egyptian President Abel Fattah Al-Sisi. About M-Gov Award 2024 IIT Indore Students Awarded with Global Best M-GOV Awards by Egyptian President- Key Points The IIT students were the creators of the ‘Blockbill’…