Asian Lite News Archive

Category: World News

  • Taliban claims responsibility for Kabul attack

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    At least one civilian was killed and 22 were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack by the Taliban near the diplomatic quarter in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the interior ministry confirmed…..Reports Asian Lite News.  “A convoy of NATO forces was targeted in the attack but none of them were harmed,” interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi…

  • Iran nuclear talks gets into final hours

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    The contentious nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers resumed here, the last day of the self-imposed deadline by the participants, following the arrival of Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Austrian capital….reports Asian Lite News. Zarif met US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Palais Coburg Hotel,…

  • Sisi pledges stronger anti-terror laws

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    Egypt is determined to amend laws with the aim of achieving justice as soon as possible, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said….reports Asian Lite News. Attending the funeral ceremony of Egypt’s prosecutor general Hisham Barakat, who died after a bomb attack on his motorcade on Monday, Sisi said the prosecutor general was Egypt’s voice that…

  • Briton launches “Greek Bailout Fund”

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    A British man has launched an online crowd-funding programme to help mitigate Greece’s debt crisis, media reported. Thom Feeney, 29,  launched the programme titled “Greek Bailout Fund” on Indiegogo.com, a US based global fundraising website, with the goal of collecting 1.6 billion euros ($1.79 billion) over a period of seven days, the Mirror Online reported.…

  • GOOALLL…Gurinder Scores Again

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    Gurinder Chadha creates history as she became the  first British Asian to direct a West End Musical….reports Asian Lite News The opening of Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical at a packed house at London’s Phoenix Theatre heralds a new era British cultural landscape. Gurinder Chadha has become the first British Asian to direct a…

  • Passengers stranded amid Calais strike

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    Port workers  strike action in Calais for the second time in a week has stranded thousands of ferry passengers on both sides of the Channel. The MyFerryLink workers walked out over the sale of the company’s ferries to rival DFDS Seaways. Sailings between Dover and the French port are at a standstill, but services to…

  • Injured Britons flown home by RAF

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    The RAF has flown in Four British tourists seriously injured in the Tunisian beach attack. It is feared that about 30 UK citizens were killed, though only 18 have so far been confirmed among the dead. The government says all those hurt at the resort near Sousse on Friday will be brought home in the…

  • London begins major counter-terrorism exercise

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     London’s largest counter-terrorism exercise to date has begun with Police officers, soldiers, emergency services and intelligence officials taking part. The simulation of a terror attack has been six months in the planning. The exercise – codenamed Strong Tower – involves 1,000 police officers at locations across the capital until Wednesday afternoon. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard…

  • The Language Of Sexual Violence  

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      The increasing reports of rapes in India call for a relook into the adjectives we use to describe the horrendous acts, which in a way redefine ‘humanity, writes Sabin Iqbal George Orwell in his popular essay on English language and politics has said that language can influence thoughts. Going by what is happening in…

  • Poor Greece: Tsipras Slipped

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    Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatened to resign if he fails to win the referendum on Sunday….reports Asian Lite News Mr Tsipras said a clear vote against austerity would help Greece negotiate a better settlement to the crisis. Otherwise, he warned, he would not stay in office to oversee more cuts. Greece’s bailout expires on…

  • Bye ‘Birmingham’; Hello ‘WMCA’….!

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      Finally the name is out! The Midland’s new combined authority have ended with the adoption of ‘West Midlands Combined Authority’….reports Asian Lite News. Businesses wanted ‘Greater Birmingham’ or ‘Heart of England’ as it is believed that the name ‘West Midlands’ carries little or no resonance in major economic countries such as China and USA Other…

  • Amma set to rock Chennai

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    AIADMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Tuesday was all set to return to the state assembly as she surged towards a massive victory in the Radhakrishnan Nagar by-election….reports Asian Lite News At the end of 10 rounds, Jayalalithaa had got 98,519 votes while her nearest rival, the Communist Party of India’s…

  • UK to tackle radicalisation at schools, prisons

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    Prime Minister David Cameron vows to defeat terrorism and unveiled new measures to prevent radicalisation at schools and prisons…. reports Kaliph Anaz The prime minister was addressing the House of Commons in the wake of attack in Tunisia. Cameron announced new measures to make all public bodies – from schools to prisons to local councils – to…

  • Britain to taste Arabian weather

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    The Met Office said there was an “80 per cent probability” of heatwave conditions between noon today – 30 June and 6am on Thursday, 2 July in parts of England….reports Asian Lite News According to Met Office 1st July is likely to be the hottest day of the year. With temperatures like to soar towards the 30C, a…

  • The killing fields of Bangladesh

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    The situation in Bangladesh has ominous portents – so much so that even the prime minister chose not to send any public condolence to the wife of slain Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy. Hasina might have done it privately but her son Sajeev Wazed Joy had shocked the nation by admitting that it was not possible…

  • Walk Together to Mark London 7/7

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    A broad coalition of Londoners, from all faiths and backgrounds, is calling on the public to come together and show that the terrorists have failed to divide the heart of Great Britain….reports Asian Lite News The city is marking the 10th anniversary of serial blasts on July 7, 2005. It was just another Thursday morning…

  • Please stop the Blame Game

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    While trumpeting their own innocence over their children’s association with extremism, Muslim parents simultaneously protest that the authorities did nothing.  If the families really had no knowledge of such activities, why should the police or schools or social services?….writes Manzoor Moghal As the lethal cycle of British involvement in jihadism deepens, so the cries of…

  • Afzal seeks review of UK policies

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    Labour leader Afzal Khan MEP, one of the most influential British Asian politician, has called for an new approach to tackling the spread of radicalisation across Europe and for a greater understanding of the grievances behind it….reports Asian Lite News Speaking in the European Parliament at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies’ conference on ‘Islam in…

  • ‘The nation is united in grief’: Cameron

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    Britain is “united in shock and grief”, prime minister David Cameron has said, as it emerging the British death toll in the Tunisian attack will rise above 30. A total of 38 people were killed by a gunman with links to Islamic State extremists on a beach near Sousse reported BBC. Writing in the Daily Telegraph,…

  • Greece braces for an epic tragedy

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    Tripras said the ECB proposals “blackmail” and vowed a refusal to the austerity measures. He called for a popular vote on the proposals on July 5….reports Asian Lite News Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says. Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it…

  • Labour leader assumes new post

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    Veteran Labour leader and former MP Tony Lloyd was appointed Interim Mayor of Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) at an event held in Oldham…. reports Asian Lite News Mr Lloyd was chosen in May over Wigan Council leader Peter Smith by a panel from the area’s 10 boroughs. He will combine the job with his current responsibilities as…

  • Stopping the crimson tide ….

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    Terrorism is a long battle and has nothing to do with retaking lost territory nor does a battle plan for this fight have parameters. It is fluid, nebulous and almost impossible to eliminate for the enemy is unseen…writes Bikram Vohra The plumes of violence continue to spread insidiously. The attacks in Kuwait, Tunis and France…

  • China warns Glastonbury organisers

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    China has warned the organisers of the annual British Glastonbury Music Festival over inviting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a media report said. “China resolutely opposes any country, organisation, body or individual giving any kind of platform to the 14th Dalai Lama to engage in anti-China activities,” The Telegraph quoted Lu Kang, China’s…

  • IS claims responsibility for Tunisian attack

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     Islamic State (IS) militants has claimed responsibility for an attack in a Tunisian seaside resort that killed 39 people. In a statement released on Twitter, the group identified the gunman as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, describing him as a “soldier of the caliphate” and most of the killed as “subjects of states that make up the…

  • Majority of dead were British:Tunisian PM

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    Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has said the majority of the 38 people killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort were British . Islamic State extremists have said they carried out the attack. At least five Britons have been confirmed dead by the Foreign Office, which warned the death toll could rise reports BBC. Thomson…

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  • GALLERY: Queen in Germany

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    British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II has made her first visit to a World War Two concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany. The camp, where teenage diarist Anne Frank was among thousands to die, was liberated by British soldiers in 1945. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, laid a wreath at a memorial there on…

  • Same-sex couples can now marry across US

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    By Arun Kumar   Giving gay rights activists their biggest victory yet, the US Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples can marry nationwide and states cannot ban such marriages – an issue that divides America and India too….reports Asian Lite News. President Barack Obama, who come out in support of same sex marriage only three…

  • Five Britons killed in Tunisia attack

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    At least five Britons were killed in an attack in Tunisia , British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said…reports Asian Lite News. Dozens of people, including foreign tourists, were killed after gunmen opened fire in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to Tunisia’s interior ministry. While 37 people have been confirmed dead in the attack,…

  • How can we stem radicalisation of Muslim youths?

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    How we can prevent Muslim youths from turning their backs on British values, rather than choosing a life of radicalisation and extremism….Sajjad Karim MEP explores for Asian Lite News Islam for many people in the UK and even across the western world has become a word associated with the likes of Al-Qaeda or foreign wars…

  • IS guns down 146 people in Syria

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    At least 146 civilians were killed and more than 200 others wounded over the last 24 hours by the Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Syria’s predominantly-Kurdish city of Kobane. Medical sources in Kobane in northern Syria said 146 civilians were gunned down by the IS terrorists since Thursday morning, the time when the IS group…

  • Blatter says ‘did not resign’ as FIFA president

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    World football’s long-time administrator Sepp Blatter has repotedly said he has not resigned as FIFA president. Blatter apparently stepped down from the post on June 2 just days after getting re-elected for a fifth four-year term under pressure from various quarters following the outbreak of a global corruption scandal within the world football’s governing body.…

  • Man beheaded in ‘Islamist attack’ in France

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    A man was beheaded and at least one other person injured  in a suspected Islamist attack on a gas factory near the French city of Lyon, media reports. According to sources, there were several small explosions, possibly caused by gas canisters, at the Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, BBC reported. A man has been arrested…

  • Michelle Obama to open Special Olympics in LA

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    United States First Lady Michelle Obama will come here next month to attend the opening ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games slated for July 25. Obama, an advocate of physical fitness and healthy lifestyle, will take part in the opening ceremony to be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the…

  • NASA explore safe landing sites on Mars

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    In its bid for the next giant leap to Mars, NASA is seeking ideas for enabling human explorers to safely land, live and work on the Red Planet. NASA’s first “Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars” will be held October 27-30 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.…

  • Rajan warns of 1930s-type Great Depression

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    Warning that the global economy is on the brink of a situation similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has asked central banks from across the world to define “new rules of the game” to avert a repeat of the recent global financial crisis…reports Asian Lite News.…

  • EU strikes deal on migrants

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    EU states have struck a deal to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. The deal, made by EU leaders in Brussels, will see member states share the burden of 40,000 migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean. However, there will be no mandatory quotas for countries, and Britain’s opt-out on…

  • Cameron ‘delighted’ over EU renegotiation

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    The UK’s membership of the EU is “properly under way” and David Cameron is clearly delighted in the process of “reform and renegotiation”. The PM was speaking in the early hours after formally setting out his aims to EU counterparts in Brussels. He addressed EU leaders for 10 minutes at a summit dominated by the…

  • Obama interviews Sir David Attenborough

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    President Barack Obama has interviewed Sir David Attenborough at the White House in an extraordinary meeting of minds. During the meeting, the two men discussed the future of the planet, their passion for nature and what can be done to protect it. Excerpts can be viewed below reports BBC. The interview was recorded in May on…

  • Putin calls up Obama

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin called up US President Barack Obama to discuss Iran nuclear talks, situation in Syria and the need to counter Islamic State (IS) militants, the White House said in a communique. “The leaders discussed the increasingly dangerous situation in Syria, and underscored the importance of continued P5+1 unity in ongoing negotiations to…

  • Healthcare law ‘here to stay’: Obama

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    By Arun Kumar As the US Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama a huge victory by upholding his signature healthcare law that opposition Republicans have tried to repeal countless times, he vowed to make it even better. “Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate, we…

  • Suu Kyi’s presidential hopes dashed

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    Myanmar’s National League for Democracy chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be able to run for president in the upcoming election as the country’s parliament on Thursday failed to remove the army’s veto over constitutional change, media reported. Myanmar’s parliament voted on six amendment bills, five of which were turned down as the number of…

  • Sachin voted 21st century’s best Test player

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    Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the “best Test player” of the 21st century in an online poll conducted by Cricket Australia….reports Asian Lite News. Tendulkar amassed the highest number of votes breezing past Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara, who had to settle for the second spot, reports cricket.com.au. “After 10 days of counting…

  • British Imams go digital to stem Daesh

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    British Imams will provide personal videos to offer spiritual guidance and support to young British Muslims….reports Asian Lite News As millions of British Muslims observing Ramadan – the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, male and female Imams and scholars from across the UK are taking part in a digital campaign titled ‘Ramadan Reminders’ to…

  • BBC, PM urged to rename ISIS

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    Cross party MPs including Boris Johnson, Keith Vaz call on Government and BBC to rename ISIL/ ISIS as ‘Daesh’….reports Asian Lite News  More than 120 Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum have signed letters calling for the BBC and the Government to stop referring to the terrorist organisation as “the Islamic State”. The…

  • UK visa restriction to hit Indian firms: CII

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    British restriction on work visa may disrupt Indian firms, says Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “There are over 800 Indian companies operating in the UK, contributing to the overall economy and innovation, paying taxes, hiring locally and upskilling local talent. We must not undermine the contributions of Indian companies in the UK,” CII chief  Sumit…

  • Modern gadgets pose threat to traditional media

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    The dramatic increase in recent years of the use of smartphones and tablets to access online news could lead to an uncertain future for the world’s traditional media and news organizations, says the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)…reports Asian Lite. According to a study done by the Thompsun Reuters Foundation many news…

  • ‘You’re in my house!’ Obama tells heckler

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    A Video footage has captured the moment Barack Obama dealt with a heckler during a gay pride event at the White House. The US President was hosting a reception to observe LGBT Pride Month in the East Room when he was repeatedly interrupted by shouting from a member in the audience Reports Sky News. But…

  • Queen speaks for unity in Europe

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    The Queen has spoken out on the need for unity in Europe in a speech to German and UK leaders. The UK monarch, who was at a state banquet in Berlin as part of a four-day visit to Germany, said that “division in Europe is dangerous”. Her speech was made in the presence of German Chancellor…

  • Cameron to begin EU talks

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    Prime Minister David Cameron is all set for EU renegotiation at a meeting of European leaders in Brussels later. The European Council summit will be the first time the objectives have been collectively discussed by EU leaders. However, with the agenda set to be dominated by the Greek debt and migrant crises, time will be limited…