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Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid legal push

Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid legal push

ISLAMABAD, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls. At a summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities attended by international leaders and scholars in her home country of Pakistan, Yousafzai said Muslim voices must lead the way against the policies of the Taliban, who have barred teenage girls from school and women from universities. “In Afghanistan an entire generation of girls will be

Swami Vivekananda said people need bread more than religion: Akhilesh Yadav

Swami Vivekananda said people need bread more than religion: Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow (UP), Jan 12 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that Swami Vivekananda had said that the people of the country need bread more than religion. Addressing a press conference in the auditorium of the party’s state headquarters on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary, celebrated as the ‘National Youth Day’, he said, “Swami ji had said that the people of the country need bread more than religion. Explaining religious things to the poor will be wrong in today’s time.” In response to a question, Yadav said that

Tougher U.S. sanctions to curb Russian oil supply to China and India

Tougher U.S. sanctions to curb Russian oil supply to China and India

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and freight costs, as new U.S. sanctions on Russian producers and ships curb supplies to Moscow’s top customers, traders and analysts said. The U.S. Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions on Russian oil producers Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, as well as 183 vessels that have shipped Russian oil, targeting the revenues Moscow has used to fund its war with Ukraine. Many of the tankers have been used to ship oil to India and China as western sanctions

Bangladesh summons Indian envoy over border tensions

Bangladesh summons Indian envoy over border tensions

Dhaka, Jan 12 (PTI) Bangladesh Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma over border tensions. The development came hours after Dhaka alleged that India was trying to construct fences at five locations along the Indo-Bangla border, violating a bilateral agreement. Verma entered the foreign ministry around 3:00 pm (local time). His meeting with Foreign Secretary Jashim Uddin lasted about 45 minutes, the state-run BSS news agency reported. While no official statement was released by the interim government regarding the discussions, officials confirmed that the envoy was summoned. Talking to the media after emerging from the meeting, Verma

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