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Hart Island: Once a psychiatric institution and now the resting place for Covid patients in New York

Dibakar Dutta - 1 June, 2021

Interestingly, Hart Island had witnessed a spike in burials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although the scale was much lower than the one caused by the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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Pakistan: Geo News anchor Hamid Mir taken off air for exposing the Pakistan army’s atrocity on journalists. Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2021

We are up against a cowardly enemy which believes that we don't know them. We know who you are," Hamid Mir had criticised the Pakistani military establishment recently.

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China: Social media celebrity who mocked Chinese soldiers killed in Galwan Valley clash sentenced to prison

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Qui Ziming, an internet celebrity in China, was arrested in February 2021 for smearing PLA soldiers killed in the Galwan Valley clash.

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The origins of Covid-19: A laboratory-made virus and a massive cover-up by culpable parties? An analysis

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

After almost 1.5 years since pandemic broke, it is still unclear how Covid-19 originated, thanks to irresponsible behavior of some scientists and the Chinese government.

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UK: ‘Former’ Islamic terrorist files complaint against Pakistan-origin parents for radicalising him as a child

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

"They taught me to hate this country and the West, and not make friends with non-Muslims," the former terrorist recounted.

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Pakistan: Taliban-linked terror group issues threats to Sikh community, Nankana Sahib Gurdwara asks people to be vigilant

OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2021

Islamist terror group Balochistan Republic Army, linked to Taliban in Afghanistan, has issued threats to Sikh community in Pakistan

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Associated Press journalists drank coffee with Hamas terrorists everyday in Al Jalaa tower: Israel Defence Forces makes a stunning claim

OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2021

According to the latest reports, IDF chief Aviv Kohavi has said that AP journalists, knowingly or unknowingly, drank their morning coffee alongside Hamas electronics experts at the tower’s ground-level cafeteria.

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Canada: Mass grave of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, discovered at a former Indigenous residential school site

OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2021

A 2015 report documented horrific details of abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by the students who attended the Residential Schools.

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“Covid-19 virus is from China and it was intentionally leaked by China’s CCP” says Chinese virologist

OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2021

Talking about holding China accountable for the misdeed, Dr Li-Meng Yan revealed that the lab leak was not accidental but let out on purpose to do a small trial on the community which went out of control.

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