| Bolivia to issue warrant against ex-leader Morales
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| Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Anez has said an arrest warrant will soon be issued against former president Evo Morales, who has received asylum in neighbouring Argentina. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, fled the country after nearly 14 years in power. He lost military support during weeks of violence that followed what international monitors said were deeply flawed elections. "An arrest warrant is going to be issued in the next few days", Anez told reporters Saturday, adding that Morales would be investigated for alleged crimes of sedition and terrorism. If he returns to Bolivia he "knows that he has to give answers to the country (since) he has counts pending under the law." Morales left Bolivia last month and initially received asylum in Mexico. On Thursday he reached Argentina where the new leftist government of President Alberto Fernandez gave him refuge. Morales claims he was overthrown in a right-wing coup, and while in Mexico kept up a daily campaign ...
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| Israel eyes Dubai expo as 'portal' to Arab world
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| With the world's largest trade fair opening in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties with regional neighbours. The Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the attention of a projected 25 million visitors over nearly six months from October. Like most Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates has no diplomatic relations with Israel. But the Jewish state has been quietly moving closer to Gulf Arab countries on the basis of shared security interests and a common enemy -- Iran. An Israeli pavilion at an Arab-hosted expo presents a unique opportunity to speed up the "normalisation" of relations and reach out to Arab peoples, officials say. "To us, the added value is in the Arab and Muslim visitor," said Elazar Cohen, the Israeli foreign ministry's pointman for the expo, which is organised by the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). So far public overtures between Israel .
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| Curfew relaxed in Guwahati till evening
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| The curfew imposed in the wake of protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, has been relaxed from 9 am to 6 pm today by the administration."Curfew being relaxed today in Guwahati from 9 am to 6 pm," said GP Singh, Additional DGP Law and Order, Assam.Yesterday, when the curfew was relaxed, a huge rush was witnessed in markets and outside ATMs as people made beeline for essential commodities.Protests have broken out in Guwahati and other parts of Assam following the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, in Parliament on Wednesday, and it becoming an Act thereupon after the Presidential assent on Thursday.As many as 26 Army columns have been deployed in Assam to assist the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to handle the situation.On Thursday, two people died in protests against the Act while the suspension of mobile Internet services was extended for another 48 hours in 10 districts of Assam.Earlier, the administration had suspended mobile Internet services for 24 ...
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| DCW chief hospitalised after health deteriorates during hunger strike
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| Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal, who was on a hunger strike to demand capital punishment for rapists within six months of their conviction, was taken to a hospital after she lost consciousness on Sunday morning. Maliwal has been on a hunger strike for over 10 days and was sitting at the Samta Sthal near Raj Ghat. On Saturday night, when her condition deteriorated, doctors advised her to go to the hospital, but she refused to budge. On Sunday morning, she was taken to LNJP Hospital after she fainted.
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| Protests against Citizenship law in Bengal, roads blockades at several places
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| Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from Nadia, North 24 Parganas and Howrah districts of West Bengal which is witnessing protests against the amended Citizenship Act, police said on Sunday. Protesters blocked various important roads in Amdanga and Kalyani areas of North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts. They also blocked roads and railway tracks in various stations of the districts, the police said. In Domjur area of Howrah district, protesters organised road blockades and shouted slogans against the Narendra Modi government. A huge police contingent has been rushed to the spot to control the situation. Violent protests have rocked several parts of the state in the last two days with agitators torching railways stations and vandalising public property. Incidents of violence were reported from Murshidabad and North 24 Parganas districts, and rural Howrah on Saturday.
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