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Even as North Korea claims victory over COVID, military parade features hazmat suits, gas masks, as economic crisis due to pandemic worsens

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

Pictures released by the North Korean state media showed soldiers wearing bright red hazmat suits and gas masks during a military parade

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Pakistan: Education ministry issues Talibani diktat for female teachers, bans jeans and t-shirts

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

This step was welcomed by many in Pakistan who appreciated dress code as per Islamic teaching.

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Australia: Apex court rules that media houses are responsible for defamatory comments posted by others on their social media pages

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

High Court of Australia said that an entity with a social media account is considered ‘liable for adverse material in the comments sections’

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China pledges 31 million USD aid for Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Taliban had called China its ‘most important partner’

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

In the first batch of aid, China will be sending across 3 million vaccine doses and has also pledged to provide more medical supplies.

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How BBC went from spreading fake news to allying with and shielding terrorist ministers of Taliban: Here is why

Editorial Desk - 9 September, 2021

BBC is now allying with terrorists and indulging in a whitewashing expedition to ensure that the world legitimises the Taliban

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Kabul: Taliban takes over Norwegian embassy, promises to return after smashing wine bottles and burning all books

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

"Guns apparently less dangerous,” remarked Norwegian ambassador to Iran while Tweeting Taliban's takeover of their embassy.

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Spain: Bishop quits Church after falling in love with a satanic erotica writer, colleagues say he may be ‘possessed by demon’

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

Bishop Novell's lady love Caballol is known to author books like “The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust” and a trilogy called “Amnesia.”

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‘To embarrass America’ China wants to take over ex-American military airbase near Kabul in Afghanistan, says report

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2021

As per reports, China is currently conducting feasibility study on sending workers for economic development program Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to Bagram.

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The Secret War: How a 2012 documentary revealed Pakistan was supporting Taliban and American soldiers knew it

Jinit Jain - 8 September, 2021

A documentary released by the Frontline in 2012 laid bare the complicity of Pakistan in nurturing and harbouring Talibani terrorists against the US forces, while taking money from the US and pretending to be an ally.

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