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The government of Sri Lanka in the month of March 2020, had imposed regulations announcing that the bodies of COVID-19 victims could only be cremated stating that the virus could spread by contaminating groundwater. On the eve of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Visit a group of Muslim parliamentarians urged Pakistani Premier who was visiting the country to take up the issue with the Sri Lankan political leaders. Thanking his Sri Lankan counterparts for the policy change Imran Khan tweeted “I welcome the Sri Lankan govt’s official notification allowing the burial option for those dying of Covid - 19,”. The chairperson of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, referred to the issue in a statement on Wednesday after the 57-member Organizations of...

In the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi, landslides have hit a gold mine, leaving at least five people dead and 70 more missing, Head of Provincial Disaster Management Agency Datu Pamusu Tombolotutu told the Xinhua news agency on Thursday. The incident took place in the village of Buranga in the Parigi Mountong district on Wednesday. "We have got five bodies and received reports from members of families about missing persons. The total is 70. Many of them could be buried underground," the official said.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/prelone.html The search and rescue operation is reportedly underway.

Ecuador experienced its deadliest prison riots ever this week when seemingly coordinated fights broke out in facilities in three different cities, leaving 79 inmates dead as of Wednesday and exposing the limited control that authorities have over people behind bars. Hundreds of police officers and military personnel converged on the prisons after the unrest began Monday night in the maximum-security wings as rival gangs fought for leadership. Officials said inmates carried out savage killings, beheading and dismembering fellow prisoners. Inmates in two prisons continued fighting Wednesday despite heavy police response. Television footage showed smoke billowing from one of the facilities. 70% of the country's prison population lives in the centers where the unrest occurred. The nat...

Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of coastline in what officials are calling one of the country's worst ecological disasters. Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel's coast last week after a heavy storm. The deposits have wreaked havoc on local wildlife, and the Israeli Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry determined Sunday that a dead young fin whale that washed up on a beach in southern Israel died from ingesting the viscous black liquid, according to Kan, Israel's public broadcaster. Israel's Nature and Parks Authority has called the spill "one of the most serious ecological disasters" in the country's history. In 2014, a c...

President Joe Biden has lifted a freeze on green cards issued by his predecessor during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration to the United States. Former President Donald Trump last spring halted the issuance of green cards until the end of 2020 in the name of protecting the coronavirus-wracked job market a reason that Trump gave to achieve many of the cuts to legal immigration that had eluded him before the pandemic. Trump on December 31 extended those orders until the end of March. Trump had deemed immigrants a risk to the US labor market and blocked their entry to the United States in issuing Proclamation 10014 and Proclamation 10052. Biden stated in his proclamation on Wednesday that shutting the door on legal immigrants does not advance the in...

Prime Minister Imran Khan, on a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka, has said that Pakistan supports resolving all prevailing regional conflicts through dialogue. "Initiating wars gives rise to more disputes," he said and added, "we offered India to hold talks but they did not pay heed to it," he added. "Immediately when I came into power, I approached our neighbor India and explained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the way forward for peace in the subcontinent is to resolve our differences through dialogue." The premier said that although he did not succeed, he is “optimistic that eventually better sense will prevail”. “The only way the subcontinent can tackle poverty is by improving trade relations.” He maintained that Islamabad wishes for the Kashmir dispute to be resol...

According to a report by Associated Press, ambulance officials on Tuesday, said that there are searches going on by rescue workers for at least five people who went missing in a shipwreck lake near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Till now nine people, including three children, were dead, they added. On late Monday, the boat capsized in the lake of Maruit while returning from an entertaining voyage. The boat was carrying at more than 58 people. The officials said that five people were rescued and were taken to hospitals. Relatives of the victims were waiting on shores all night in hope that their might be return of any one among the survivors.

On Tuesday, Muslims were protesting near the president’s office demanding that the government should allow people who die of COVID-19 to be buried instead of cremated. Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan is on two day visit to Sri Lanka, where Sri Lankan Muslims are in hope that he will take the burial issue when he meets his counterparts on Tuesday and Wednesday. Khan has to meet President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his older brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Imran began his visit when about 2,000 protestors gathered near the president’s office in Colombo demanding that burials be allowed for Muslims who die of COVID-19.buy silagra online https://nouvita.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/new/silagra.html no prescription Opposition lawmaker, Mujibur Rahman said ...

Hundreds of people were arrested from homes in the middle of the night or on the streets during protests. Experts fear there might be expansion in the number of prisoners, since Myanmar’s Military Coup. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a Myanmar-based organization, as of Tuesday, some 696 people including monks, writers, activists, politicians and others has been arrested in relation to the coup. Many of those arrested were charged using a legacy of laws some dating back to British colonial times and others under previous military regimes that have been used against critics by every government, including Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, which was ousted in a coup that took place on February 1st. While the military continues to...

Turkey has raised the Kashmir issue at the United Nations Human Rights Council, with a call for resolving the issue on the basis of UN resolutions. “We reiterate our call to the Government of India to ease current restrictions in Jammu Kashmir,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the 47-member Council in Geneva, according to news reports. “We wish for the resolution of the issue through peaceful means on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions and the legitimate expectations of the people of Jammu Kashmir,” the Turkish foreign minister added. The Minister also said, “Xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia, and hate speech are on the rise. Freedom of speech is key to any democracy. But this freedom does not give the right to insult the sacred values of others.” Pertin...