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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges harassment of Rajbanshis, Matuas in other states
The Economic Times
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July 17, 2025
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that Rajbanshis and Matuas were subjected to torture and harassment in other states and people from a particular religion were also being targeted. Speaking at an event in...
Rajbanshis, Matuas tortured in other states: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
The Economic Times
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July 17, 2025
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that Rajbanshis and Matuas were subjected to torture and harassment in other states and people from a particular religion were also being targeted. Speaking at an event in Kolkata,...
School witnessing silent transformation
The Arunachal Times
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[Bengia Ajum] NGISSA, 17 Jul: A Government Primary School here in Longding district, located near the Indo-Myanmar border, is witnessing a silent transformation due to the effort of one Ganchai Wangsa, the chairman of the School Management...
Trump’s 19% tariff on the Philippines is a clarion call for structural reform
Business World
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July 23, 2025
By Jam Magdaleno DONALD TRUMP’s threatened 20% tariff on Philippine exports — now negotiated down to 19% — has landed with painful clarity. Even more striking, the Philippines has accepted this steep tariff while keeping a zero percent duty on...
IU student equips Indiana educators with vital Chin cultural and languages training
Indiana University Indianapolis
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Sui Hnem Par, an IU School of Education student in Bloomington, helped facilitate the Chin Languages Workshop for P12 educators in Perry Township. Photo by Liz Kaye, Indiana University Indiana is home to 40,000 people who moved from Chin State in...
China-Linked Scam Centers Targeting More US Victims: Report
Newsweek
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July 22, 2025
Asian scam centers are cheating Americans out of billions of dollars a year while enjoying at least the implicit backing of elements in the Chinese government and the threat posed by the "pig-butchering" fraud gangs is growing, a U.S....
The Gambia’s political atmosphere: A frank analysis in comparative context
The Standard Gambia
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July 22, 2025
- Advertisement - By Mohammed Jallow The Gambia, a small but historically resilient West African nation, stands at a critical crossroads in its political journey. Since the ousting of Yahya Jammeh in 2017, many citizens and observers hoped the...
India's Neighbourhood Diplomacy: A Pillar Of Consistency And Trust
MENAFN
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July 23, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) As India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to visit the Maldives on July 25–26, following his state visit to the UK, his itinerary sends a clear message: South Asia remains New Delhi's foremost priority. This visit is...
UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence
Drop Site
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July 22, 2025
My book “The Squad” is out in paperback tomorrow. If you want to get it and avoid Amazon, you can do that here. In hindsight, I regret not fighting for the original title I wanted, “They’ve Got Money,” because it is a sequel to my previous one,...
Xi Jinping's Chinese communist state is now running cover for terrorists
Daily Express
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July 23, 2025
At the global level and even more so in the Western world there is a need to instrumentalise words that carry fundamental meanings such as democracy, freedom, peace and terrorism. At the moment, there are so many simultaneous hotbeds of war that...
Ashes or Awakening? India at the Crossroads of World War III
Nagaland Post
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July 22, 2025
Introduction: Between Karma and Catastrophe. If World War III were to erupt, India would find itself not merely at a political juncture, but at a civilizational crossroads. This is a land where the Mahabharata warned of fratricidal war and where...
Beyond the Grave: Why Counting Christian Persecution Incidents Is Harder Than Counting Deaths
International Christian Concern
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July 3, 2025
By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow In 2025, Christian persecution continues to be a sobering reality for millions across the globe. However, despite widespread awareness and advocacy, accurately measuring this persecution remains a persistent...
The Doi Tung Model and Alternative Development in Thailand
Borgen Magazine
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July 16, 2025
OXFORD, United Kingdom — Doi Tung is a mountainous area in northern Chiang Rai province, near the border with Myanmar. Today, it is a popular destination for tourists seeking to explore its lush forests and the cultures of six distinct ethnic...
Karenni Retreat, Worship Gathering Builds Faith, Community
Catholic Herald
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July 23, 2025
Maria Chay knew it was an honor for her community to be asked to host the 11th annual national gathering of Karenni Catholics. As a leader at St. Michael Parish, Milwaukee, and an officer with the Karenni-American Catholic Association, she helped...
Third-Country Deportations in Legal Limbo Under Trump
The Cipher Brief
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July 22, 2025
OPINION — “Government has assured emaSwati [the Swazi people] that the arrival [in southern Africa Wednesday in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland] of five third-country deportees from the United States of America poses no security threat to the Nation....
Over 100 aid groups call for Israel to stop starving Gazans; UN chief hits out at ‘horror show’ as 80 children die of hunger
Irish Independent
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In a statement signed by 111 organizations, including Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Refugees International, the groups warned that mass starvation was spreading across the enclave even as tons of food, clean water, medical...
Conflicts displace over 800,000 people across the country since...
Eleven Myanmar
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More than 800,000 people have been displaced across the country since the February 1, 2021, political upheaval, announced the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA Myanmar) on February 23. The statement said that...
How Martyrs' Day marked Mamata's rallying cry to defeat BJP in Bengal and beyond
India Today
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July 22, 2025
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, in a powerful address at her party’s flagship Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21 in Kolkata, launched a combative attack on the BJP-led central government, accusing it of orchestrating a “voter deletion”...
PEACETALK: ASEAN’s community of peacebuilders – bringing peace to a reality
Minda News
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July 22, 2025
(Speech delivered by Dr. Ayesah Uy Abubakar at the Panel Discussion 2: Peace – Reality or Illusion?during the Launch of the AICHR Thematic Study on the Right to Peace, held on 1 July 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. Abubakar of Mindanao is...
NSO flays KIA’s ‘aggression,’ demands release of captured Naga personnel
The Morung Express
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Lahe, July 22 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Organisation (NSO) has strongly condemned what it termed as “escalating aggression” by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) towards the Nagas. According to the NSO, the latest and most alarming incident of...