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Digikala, Iran’s Amazon, faces heat for posting images of female employees without hijab, govt initiates legal action

OpIndia Staff -
Digikala, often known as 'Iran's Amazon,' appears to have broken the law by publishing images of a corporate event where some female employees were not covering their faces with the mandatory hijab.
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Pakistan’s Islamia University Bahawalpur staff held for possessing drugs, obscene videos of women, kidnapping girls and more: Here’s what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Baghdadul Jadid Police in Bahawalpur City of Punjab, Pakistan arrested officials of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) for possessing drugs, objectionable videos and images of IUB female students and women staff members.
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Woman urinates on the floor of Spirit Airlines plane saying staff didn’t let her use the bathroom for two hours

OpIndia Staff -
A woman on board a Spirit Airlines flight urinated on the floor because she was denied access to the lavatory.
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Problems mount for Pakistan International Airlines, losses touch PKR 600 Billion, unable to operate a single day without funds from the national kitty

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan International Airlines was unable to pay USD 50 million in navigation charges to Saudi Arabia, leading to potential disruptions in its operations after June 30, 2023.
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Iranian government official calls for boycott of all products from Sweden and Denmark over Quran burnings

OpIndia Staff -
Following multiple Quran burning incidents in Europe, Iranian official called for boycott of products from Sweden and Denmark
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ISIS is an American phenomenon, have documents to show that the USA trained them: Taliban

ANI -
Taliban appointed Governor of Kabul, Mohammad Qassim Khalid has said that the US is behind Daesh (ISIS) and that the group is an American phenomenon
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Pakistan: Power tariff sees a massive increase of up to PKR 7.50 as the bankrupt country scrambles to meet IMF demands

ANI -
Sources privy to the development told ARY News that the Pakistan government has increased the basic power tariff by Rs 3 for some customers and by Rs 7.5 per unit for some other consumers.
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After Sweden, now Quran burnt in front of the Iraqi embassy in Denmark’s Copenhagen, protests erupt at Swedish and Danish embassies in Baghdad

OpIndia Staff -
The Danske Patrioter group said it burnt Quran in Denmark’s Copenhagen in protest against the attack on the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.
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Rock Band ‘The 1975’ banned from Malaysia after criticism of anti-LGBT laws and an on-stage kiss between members Matty Healy and Ross MacDonald

OpIndia Staff -
Malaysia is a Muslim-dominated conservative country where homosexuality is considered a crime and punishable by 20 years in jail
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Email account of US Ambassador to China ‘attacked by Chinese hackers’ days after cyber-espionage campaign unearthed

OpIndia Staff -
The breach is said to be limited to unclassified emails but the inboxes of Burns and Kritenbrink reportedly could have exposed details of US administration's planned trips to China and details of its policy towards China.
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