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USA – Biden, top Democrats back bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill (Al Jazeera)

President-elect Joe Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort in the United States Congress and his top congressional allies cut their demands for...

INDIA – India court orders installation of CCTVs at every police station (Bilal Kuchay, Al Jazeera)

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the installation of security cameras at all police stations and offices of investigating agencies which conduct interrogations and have...

INDIA – India farmers’ protests: Gov’t resumes talks with farmers (Al Jazeera)

Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan sentences three top JuD leaders for ‘terror financing’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has convicted three top Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) leaders on terrorism-financing charges, a senior prosecutor says, as the country continues to crack...

BANGLADESH/ROHINGYA – Rights groups urge Bangladesh to halt Rohingya relocation (Al Jazeera)

Human rights groups urged Bangladesh on Thursday to stop its plan to ship thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island as officials said...

NIGERIA – Anger, trauma over years of tensions with police in Lagos suburb (Ope Adetayo, Al Jazeera)

It was 1pm on October 20 – just hours before the now-infamous Lekki tollgate shooting left 15 people dead – when another police shooting took place...

KURDS/USA – What Biden can and cannot do for the Kurds (Yerevan Saeed, Al Jazeera)

Many Kurds across the Middle East welcomed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the recent elections in the United States. The former vice...

GAZA – Life ‘extraordinarily difficult’ for people with disability (Al Jazeera)

People with disabilities can face an “extraordinarily difficult” life in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli blockade and lack of assistance from Hamas...

INDIA – Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth will launch his own political party (Al Arabiya)

Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth said Thursday he plans to launch his own political party in southern India in January, ending years of speculation by...

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