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AFGHANISTAN POLITICAL CRISIS

Ethnic diversity at the centre of Conflict

Afghanistan’s ethnic diversity has been at the centre of politics and conflict in the coun-try for more than a century, and these divides are expected to play a role in the Taliban’s formation of a new government. No single ethnic group has a decisive majority among Afghanistan’s 40 million people, and the fissures have been a perennial challenge to po-litical stability. Here is a brief overview of the major ethnic groups in Afghanistan:

PASHTUNSThe Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s biggest ethnic group, making up more than 42 percent of the population. The group -- which is predominantly Sunni Muslim and speaks the Pashto language -- has dominated Afghan politics since the 18th century. Many Pashtun leaders over the years have stressed a “right to rule” Afghanistan, which has angered other ethnic groups. The Taliban, in control of Afghanistan for a second time after their 1996-2001 regime, are a Pash-tun-dominated group. Even the two presidents under the previous US-backed governments -- Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani -- were Pashtuns. Tradition-ally based in the south and east of the country, the dominant position of the Pashtuns has often caused resentment among other groups, especially because of political, economic and cultural marginalisation.

TAJIKSThe Tajiks are the second-biggest ethnic group, making up more than a quarter of the Afghan population. The main language among Tajiks is a dialect of Farsi called Dari, also the lingua franca of Afghanistan. The group is mainly distributed in the north and west of the country, with strongholds in the Panjshir Valley, the western city of Herat and some northern provinces. The Panjshir Valley is famed for resisting occupation not only by the Soviet military in the 1980s but also by the first Taliban regime. While not politi-cally dominant, a number of prominent Tajik leaders have emerged in recent decades. The revered mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud -- “The Lion of Panjshir” -- who fought the Red Army and the Taliban is at the top of that list among Afghans. Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik from Bada-khshan province in the north, served as Afghan president from 1992 to 1996 before Kabul fell to the Taliban.

HAZARAThe Hazara, believed to have origins in Central Asian and Turkic peoples, are around 10 percent of the population and are mainly based in central Afghanistan. They speak a Dari dialect and are predominantly Shia Muslim. The group faced violent oppression and discrimination in Afghanistan over both religion and ethnicity for more than a century. They have also suffered massacres across various Afghan governments in recent decades, but especially under the Taliban -- hardline Sunni Muslims who have usually labelled Shias heretics.

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September 2021UZBEKSAfghan Uzbeks are also around 10 percent of the popula-tion, mainly based in the north of the country close to the border with Uzbekistan. A Turkic people, they are mainly Sunni Muslims. The most famous, and notorious, Afghan Uzbek is the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who fought with the Soviets against the mujahideen before changing sides and effectively setting up his own stronghold centred on the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. He was a leading figure in the Northern Alliance that helped end Taliban rule after the US invasion of 2001, and later joined the Ghani administration as a first vice-president. He fled to Uzbekistan when Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban this month.

Timeline of Taliban’s lightning offensive

Taliban insurgents began entering Kabul following are some of the major milestones in the Islamist militant movement’s advance in recent months.

April 14 - President Joe Biden announces US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan starting on May 1 and ending on Sept 11, bringing America’s longest war to a close.

May 4 - Taliban fighters launch a major offensive on Afghan forces in southern Helmand province. They also attack in at least six other provinces.

May 11 - The Taliban capture Nerkh district just outside the capital Kabul as violence intensifies across the country.

June 7 - Senior government officials say more than 150 Afghan soldiers are killed in 24 hours as fighting worsens. They add that fighting is raging in 26 of the country’s 34 provinces.


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September 2021June 22 - Taliban fighters launch a series of attacks in the north of the country, far from their traditional strongholds in the south. The UN envoy for Afghanistan says they have taken more than 50 of 370 districts.

July 2 - American troops quietly pull out of their main military base in Afghanistan - Bagram Air Base, an hour’s drive from Kabul. It effectively ends US involvement in the war.

July 5 - The Taliban say they could present a written peace propos-al to the Afghan government as soon as August.

July 21 - Taliban insurgents control about a half of the country’s districts, according to the senior US general, underlining the scale and speed of their advance.

July 25 - The United States vows to continue to support Afghan troops “in the coming weeks” with intensified airstrikes to help them counter Taliban attacks.

Aug 6 - Zaranj in the south of the country becomes the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in years. Many more are to follow in the ensuing days, including the prized city of Kunduz in the north.

Aug 13 - Four more provincial capitals fall in a day, including Kandahar, the country’s second city and spiri-tual home of the Taliban. In the west, another key city, Herat, is overrun and veteran commander Mohammad Ismail Khan, one of the leading fighters against the Taliban, is captured.

Aug 14 - The Taliban take the major northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and, with little resistance, Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar province just 70 km (40 miles) south of Kabul. The United States sends more troops to help evacuate its civilians from Kabul as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says he is consulting with local and interna-tional partners on next steps.

Aug 15 - The Taliban take the key eastern city of Jalala-bad without a fight, effectively surrounding Kabul.

Aug 15 - Taliban insurgents enter Kabul, an interior min-istry official says, as the United States evacuate diplo-mats from its embassy by helicopter.

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Who Are Taliban?RELIGIOUS STUDENTS: The Taliban originated among young Afghans who studied in Sunni Islamic schools called madrassas in Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation. They take their name from talib, the Arabic word for student. In the early 1990s, with Afghanistan in the chaos and corruption of civil war, the Taliban was formed in the southern province of Kandahar under the leadership of one-eyed warrior-cleric Mullah Omar. Omar, who led them until his death in 2013, was from a stronghold of the powerful Pashtun ethnic group from which most Taliban fighters come. Haibatullah Akhundzada is now the top leader, while Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar heads the political wing.

DRAMATIC RISE TO POWER: Promising to restore order and justice, after the soviet occupation, the Taliban rose dramatically. They drew substantial support from Pakistan and initially had the tacit approval of the United States. In 1994 they seized the city of Kandahar almost without a fight. Equipped with tanks, heavy weapons and the cash to buy the support of local commanders, they steadily moved north, before capturing the capital Kabul on Septem-ber 27, 1996. President Burhanuddin Rabbani had already fled. Taliban fighters dragged former commu-nist president Mohammed Najibullah from a United Nations office where he had been sheltering, and hanged him in a public street after torturing him.REIGN OF TERROR: The Taliban government imposed the strictest interpretations of sharia, estab-lishing religious police for the suppression of “vice”. Music, television and popular pastimes such as kite-flying were banned. Girls’ schools were closed, while women were prevented from working and forced to wear an all-covering burqa in public. Taliban courts handed out extreme punishments including chopping off the hands of thieves and stoning to death women accused of adultery. By 1998, they had control of 80 percent of the country, but were only recognised as the legal government by Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. The Taliban allowed Afghanistan to become a sanctuary for Al-Qaeda, which set up training camps.TALIBAN TOPPLED: The September 11, 2001 attacks that killed around 3,000 people in the US were imme-diately blamed on al-Qaeda. Accusing the Taliban of refusing to hand over Bin Laden, the US and allies launched air strikes on Afghanistan in October. By early December the Taliban government had fallen, its leaders fleeing to their strongholds in the south and east, or across the border into Pakistan’s tribal zone.

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BLOODY INSURGENCY: At first written off as a spent force, the Taliban rebuilt to lead an insurgency against the new Western-backed government. Making heavy use of improvised bombings and suicide attacks, they labelled as “crusaders” the tens of thousands of foreign troops who deployed into the country as part of a US-dominated Nato force. The Nato combat mission ended in December 2014 and the bulk of Western forces withdrew.

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US EXIT, TALIBAN OFFENSIVE: In 2018 the US and Taliban began discreet talks in Doha, that were interrupted several times after attacks against American troops. A historic deal was signed by the US with the Taliban in Doha on February 29, 2020, laying out a timetable for a full American troop withdrawal. On July 6, 2021, the US military said it had completed 90 percent of its retreat from Afghanistan. Five weeks later, the Taliban are on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, and the government has conceded it is preparing for a “transfer of power”

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Iran rejected Israel’s “baseless accusations” of being behind a deadly tanker attack off Oman, vowing to defend its interests after its arch-foe pushed for UN action against Tehran.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a sombre state apology to the Pacific community for racially targeted immigration raids in the 1970s that resulted in deportations and prosecutions.

The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said.

Tunisian security forces have arrested two MPs from an Islamist party opposed to a power grab by President Kais Saied, their party said.

French intelligence investigators have confirmed that Pegasus spyware has been found on the phones of three journalists, including a senior member of staff at the country’s international television station France 24.

An estimated 4.7 million fewer girls are expected to be born globally in the next 10 years because of sex-selective practices in countries with a cultural preference for male offspring, a trend that could undermine social cohesion in the long term, research showed.North Korea wants international sanctions banning its metal exports and imports of refined fuel and other neces-sities lifted before it restarts denuclearisation talks with the United States, South Korean lawmakers said.At least 16 people have been killed and a quarter of a million people displaced from their homes after heavy monsoon rains lashed eastern India, officials said, as the air force joined rescue efforts.

Lionel Messi will end his 20-year career with Barcelona even though he had reached an agreement with the club, Barcelona said on Friday, citing economic and structural obstacles to the renewal of deal. Messi was free to negotiate a transfer with other clubs after his deal ran out at the end of June, but Barcelona had always maintained he wanted to stay with the club.The 34-year-old, who has spent his whole career at Barcelona, had been expected to sign a new five-year deal with the Catalan club, which would have included a salary reduction of 50%. Barcelona needed to financially restructure in order to get the deal over the line, which proved impossible in the end.

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have appointed Brunei’s second minister for foreign affairs, Erywan Yusof, as special envoy to Myanmar, the group said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a huge bomb attack in Kabul targeting the defence minister, as the insurgents fought for control of a string of besieged cities across the country.

India is sending a naval task force to the South China Sea this month to expand security ties with friendly countries, officials said, signalling its intent to play a bigger role in regional efforts to counter China.

With nearly 200 million people known to have had Covid-19, the WHO said it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with Long Covid.

Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday said he will support “any diplomatic plans” to lift US sanctions but that foreign pressure will not make Tehran back down from its “rights”.

The United Nations said it urgently needed funds to feed people in Myanmar amid fears that up to 6.2 million could be plunged into hunger by October.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that Hong Kong citizens currently in the United States who fear for their safety amid the political crackdown back home will receive temporary safe haven.

Leaders of five Central Asian countries sounded the alarm over the spiral of war in neighbouring Afghani-stan at a regional summit, as US-led forces withdraw from the country and the Taliban advances.


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About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain’s Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation said.

Iran rejected Western allegations its drones were used in a deadly tanker attack, while accusing Israel of concocting the “scenario” in a bid to undermine the Islamic republic.

North Korea continued developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country’s wors-ening economic situation, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters.

The Taliban tightened the noose around northern Afghani-stan, capturing three more provincial capitals as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the country-side in recent months.

Myanmar protesters marked the anniversary of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that brought Aung San Suu Kyi to prominence, with flash mobs and marches of defiance against the ruling junta.

Calling for “massive” pressure to fight climate change after dire report by a UN science panel, activist Greta Thunberg said she plans to go to this year’s global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, after all.

The Taliban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centres fall in quick succession and the government struggle to keep the militants at bay.

Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi) told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that negotiations with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal must guar-antee Tehran’s “rights”.

Six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi received a hero’s welcome after flying to France on Tuesday to join Paris Saint Germain (PSG) following his shock departure from Barcelona.

Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save “our very future” after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten their existence.

Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of 207 employees across about a dozen government ministries in the latest sweep by an anti-corruption body empowered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan’s capital in 30 days and possibly take it over in 90, a US defence official told Reuters citing US intelligence, as militants took control of an eighth provincial Afghan capital.

Sudan will hand longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court along with other officials wanted over the Darfur conflict, Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the context of the “mess” it is leaving behind in Afghani-stan after 20 years of fighting.

Former president Donald Trump blasted his successor Joe Biden for putting no conditions on the US with-drawal from Afghanistan and said that a violent Taliban surge in the war-torn country was “not acceptable.”

The Afghanistan government has made a power-sharing proposal to the Taliban in exchange for a halt in the escalating violence in the country, media reports said.

Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save “our very future” after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten their existence. The call to action comes after the climate report warned that catastrophic global warming is occurring far more quickly than previously forecast, an assessment met with horror and hopefulness by world leaders and green groups. The group comprises 39 states including Cuba, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives, the world’s lowest-lying country. It said the report confirmed that governments around the world must take critical action to cap warming to the 1.5C temperature goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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The Taliban seized more major cities as they raced to take full control of Afghanistan and inched closer to Kabul, with the United States and Britain deploying thousands of troops to evacuate their citizens from the capital.

At least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said yesterday, weeks after record floods wreaked havoc and killed hundreds in a neighbouring province.

Britain slammed the US troop withdrawal from Afghani-stan, warning the Taliban’s resurgence would create a breeding ground for extremists that threatened the world.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Taliban to immediately halt their offensive in Afghanistan, and warned that “Afghanistan is spinning out of control.”

Afghanistan’s beleaguered president vowed to prevent further bloodshed, as Taliban fighters closed in on Kabul after routing his armed forces over the past 10 days.

Immigration advocates criticized President Joe Biden’s asylum policies, saying expulsions of migrants at the US-Mexico border and other deterrent measures were “cruel, unlawful and ineffective.”

Taliban insurgents entered Kabul unopposed and President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion.It was not yet clear where Ghani was headed or how exactly power would be transferred following the Taliban’s lightning sweep in recent weeks across Afghanistan. Their advance accelerated as US and other foreign troops withdrew in line with President Joe Biden’s desire to end America’s longest war, launched in the wake of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. By evening, the Taliban said they had taken control of most of the districts around the outskirts of the capital to fill void left by afghan security forces.

Taliban insurgents entered Kabul unopposed and President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion.

Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave.

Malaysia’s embattled leader will offer his resignation to the king, a minister said, potentially spelling an end to his 17-month-old government and plunging the country into fresh turmoil.

Panic, chaos and confusion gripped Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of Kabul, 5 killed at airport as thousands try to flee Afghanistan despite Taliban assurance; insurgents claim ‘war is over’, to form new govt in days.

Malaysia’s Muhyiddin Yassin stepped down as prime minister after months of political turmoil culminated in the loss of his majority, but his resignation is likely to open another chapter of instability in the absence of any obvious successor.

Former US president Donald Trump called for his successor Joe Biden to resign over the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban militants, as US troops with-drew from the country after nearly 20 years on the ground.

The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the frame-work of Islamic law as evacuation flights resumed after a day of chaos.

Bob Dylan has been sued in a New York court by a woman who says the US rock and folk legend sexually abused her almost 60 years ago when she was 12.

China carried out assault drills near Taiwan, with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country’s armed forces said was a response to “external interference” and “provocations”.

President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood “square-ly behind” his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of chaos in Kabul that exposed the limits of US power and plunged him into the worst crisis of his presidency.



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Sydney’s Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said, as Australia’s largest city continued to break records for new daily infections despite a nearly two-month lockdown.

Members of the US Congress, including many of President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats, said they were increasingly frustrated with events in Afghanistan, vowing to investi-gate what went wrong.

The Calcutta High Court ordered a probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into allegations of arson, violence and rape in West Bengal soon after assembly elections in which Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress emerged victorious this year.

Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob moved closer to forming the next government after securing a parliamentary majority from the same coalition that collapsed earlier this week.

A new Malaysian leader was sworn following the previous government’s collapse, reclaiming the premiership for his scandal-mired party without an election.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi said time has come for all Indian opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and “plan systematically” and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

Taliban leaders gathered in the Afghan capital to begin mapping out an “inclusive government”, as thousands scrambled to leave the country via a chaotic evacuation dubbed one of the most difficult airlifts in history.

An official with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health told CNN that more than 60 people were killed and 140 wounded. The country’s new Taliban rulers said the blasts killed between 13 and 20 people. Twelve US troops were killed and 15 wounded in the attack, said General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, the group’s Amaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel. The blasts came as the August 31 deadline looms for the United States to withdraw its troops, and for it and other Western countries to end a massive airlift that has already evacuated nearly 100,000 people.

Islamic State suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with at least Wednesday, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens, and bringing a catastrophic halt to the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee.

Former Afghan government forces forming a resis-tance movement in a fortified valley are preparing for “long-term conflict”, but are also seeking to negotiate with the Taliban, their spokesman told AFP in an interview.

Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza after clashes between its troops and Palestinian protesters left dozens injured, including an Israeli border policeman and a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who were both critically wounded.

The situation in Afghanistan is “deteriorating”, an Afghan woman refugee, who was among 168 people evacuated from Kabul on a special Air Force flight this morning, told news agency ANI.

More than 500 tonnes of medical supplies including surgical equipment and severe malnutrition kits due to be delivered to Afghanistan this week are stuck because of Kabul airport restrictions, the World Health Organi-zation said.

More than 12 million people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, food and electricity, 13 aid groups warned in a report as they called for urgent action to combat the severe water crisis.

Israeli air raids that demolished four high-rise buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip during its assault on the enclave in May apparently violated international laws of war, a leading international human rights group said, calling on the Israeli military to produce evidence justifying the attacks.


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China held up America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan as an example of Washington’s “selfish” foreign policy, hitting back at Vice President Kamala Harris’s accusations of intimidation in Asian waters.

Myanmar’s junta is considering raising village militias to combat opposition to its rule, state media said, as it struggles to assert control more than six months after seizing power.

The UN human rights chief said that she had received credible reports of serious violations committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, including “summary executions” of civilians and Afghan security forces who have surren-dered.

A classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in part due to a lack of information from China, according to US media reports.

Chinese and Russian leaders discussed Afghanistan, Chinese state media said, but did not echo the G7’s call for the Taliban to allow people to flee the country after Aug 31, as desperate crowds left behind by the withdraw-al of US troops continue to fear for their safety.

Islamic State suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with at least two explosions, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens, and bringing a catastrophic halt to the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desper-ate to flee.

The first White House meeting between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was postponed, overshadowed by suicide bombings near Kabul airport during a chaotic US evacuation mission from Afghanistan.

At least three Indian states are denying passports and government jobs to people because of their social media posts or participation in protests, human rights activists said.

The Taliban said it is planning an inclusive caretaker government in Afghanistan after the group toppled the Western-backed administration in a stunning sweep earlier this month.

President Joe Biden that China was withholding “critical information” on the origins of Covid-19 after the US intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was a bioweapon -- but remained split on whether it escaped from a lab.

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan overshadowed a summit in Iraq yesterday attended by key regional leaders, with French President Emmanuel Macron warning of the threat Islamic State group jihadists pose.

France and Britain will submit a resolution to an emergency United Nations meeting due today propos-ing a safe zone in Kabul to try and protect people trying to leave Afghanistan, French President Emman-uel Macron said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended Britain’s airlift from Kabul following growing criticism that ministers had been “asleep on watch”, potentially leaving thou-sands of eligible Afghans behind in the country.

The Taliban’s return to power two weeks ago has caused a major diplomatic setback for India, with the South Asian giant now one of the region’s “most disadvantaged” players, analysts say.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett sought to play down any notion of a move towards renewed peace negotiations with the Palestinians after the highest-lev-el Israeli-Palestinian meeting in years.

The Taliban has assured 100 countries that it will continue to allow foreigners and Afghans with foreign travel papers to leave the country “in a safe and order-ly manner,” even after the US troop withdrawal ends today, the countries said in a statement.

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watch-dog said in an annual report, highlighting the isolated nation’s efforts to expand its arsenal.

The Overview

Total RohingyaPopulation in 34 camps of Cox’s Bazar

8,72,000In Bhasan Char

18,000Outside camps

2.30 lakh

4 YEARS OF ROHINGYA CRISIS

FUNDS REQUIRED FOREducation,Health, Nutrition,Food security,Shelter, Protection,Water, Sanitation & Hygiene,Logistics,Coordination,Site management& developmentEmergency telecom

” We need tokeep alivethe Rohingya

repatriation issue despiteall odds, and continueto press, including theMyanmar military.“

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YEAR REQUIREMENT FUND RECEIVED20172018201920202021

$434m$951m$920m$1,058m$943m

$317m$655m$699m$629m$295m

ROHINGYA FUNDING

Since August 25, 2017, donorscontributed $2.59 billion

Bangladesh economy is burdenedwith an estimated $1.21 billion a year: CPD

MD SHAHIDUL HAQUEFORMER FOREIGNSECRETARY

AUG 25,2017Rohingya influx began

NOV 23, 2017Bangladesh, Myanmar signedrepatriation deal

NOV 15, 2018 and AUG 22, 2019Repatriation bids failed

NOV 11, 2019Gambia filed genocide case with the ICJ

JANUARY 23, 2020ICJ issued order asking Myanmarto prevent acts of genocide

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UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Human-induced climate change is ravaging our planet and every country, is struggling to deal with its impacts.As the world battles record-shattering heat waves, calamitous droughts, deadly floods and landscape-altering wildfires, a roughly 4,000-page report released on August 9, 2021 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-mate Change (IPCC) spells out, in un-equivocal terms, how anthropogenic climate change is ravaging our planet. Prepared by IPCC’s Working Group I and described by its authors as a “code red for humanity,” the report warns that global temperatures will likely rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040 if warming continues at the cur-rent rate. This is the threshold value agreed upon in 2015 at the 21st Con-ference of Parties (COP21) in Paris.

Climate change is a reality and it is going to get worse

Humans are responsible for the “widespread, rapid and intensifying” effects of climate change, and some of them are irreversible

Extreme weather is on the rise and will keep getting worse

Oceans have warmed, their acidification has increased, and there has been a drop in Arctic sea ice

Glaciers are melting at an accelerated pace

Sea-level rise will be worse than once thought

We must cut greenhouse gas emissions now, before brutal weather becomes more prevalent and more destructive

Tipping points, or cut-offs—which, when exceeded, will set off self-perpetuating irreversible loops in the natural world—have a “low likelihood,” but they cannot be completely ruled out

Key takeaways from the IPCC report

In a world that is hotter by 1.5 to two degrees Celsius, heat waves will break new records, with more than half of summers being ab-normally hot. Northern Bangladesh will enter a new climatic regime, with temperatures above levels not seen in the past 100

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"Today’s report makes for sobering reading, and it is clear that the next decade is going to be pivotal to securing the future of our planet.”

"It’s not too late to stem the tide and prevent runaway climate change, but only if we act decisively now and all act together.”

"Our people are dying in vulnerable developing countries because of the fossil fuel burning for consumption and economic growth in rich countries...”

"Major emitters must take account for the damages inflicted by the fossil fuel industry, knowing that... will have a negative impact.”

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON

EU’S VP IN CHARGE OF CLIMATE ACTION FRANS TIMMERMANS

MOHAMED NASHEED ENVOY FOR CVF OF 48 COUNTRIES

DIANN BLACK-LAYNELEAD CLIMATE NEGOTIATOR FOR THE ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES

World shudders at UN climate report

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REVENUE GENERATED EACH HOURHave you ever wondered how much the world’s top gaints make? Here is the

list of the world’s topmost revenue-generating firms per hour.

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SECOND QUARTERS REVENUEAmazon grew total sales in the second quarter of 2021 by 27% to $113.1 billion - a record for Q2 - but that was lighter than investors had expected, given in part that the prime Day shop-

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Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company beat expectations on both the top and bottom lines, and passed $1 billion in quarterly net income for the first time. The company reported $1.14 billion in (GAAP) net income for the quarter, the first time it has surpassed $1 billion. in the year-ago quarter, net income amounted to $104 million. In meantime here’s the second quar-

ters revenue comparison over the years.

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E-learning Market Analysis


ON ACQUISITION SPREE


Edtech giant BYJU’s is in talks with several investors to raise $1-1.5 billion at a valuation of nearly $21 billion. It is India’s most valuable startup. Not only has the EdTech company ganered generous fundings from investors, but it has also gone on an acquisition spree. It acquired Aakash Educational Services for $1 billion, Great Learing for $600 million, Epic for

$500 million, Whodat for an unidisclosed amount within months.

BIG BUYS OF 2021

PREVIOUS BIG BUYS

$1 Billion $600 Million $500 Million $150 Million

$300 Million $120 Million

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Fasting before and during exposure to Sal-monella enterica bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown infection, in part due to changes in the animals’ gut microbiomes, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Bruce Val-lance and colleagues at University of British Columbia, Canada.Fasting decreased the signs of bacterial infection compared to fed mice, including nearly eliminating all intestinal tissue damage and inflammation. When fasted animals were re-fed for a day after their fast, there was a dramatic increase in Sal-monella numbers and invasion into the

“These data suggest that therapeutic fasting or calorie restriction has the potential to beneficially modulate infectious and poten-tially non-infectious gastrointestinal diseas-es,” the researchers conclude.The researchers add, “Our research high-lights the important role that food plays in regulating interactions between the host, enteric pathogens and the gut microbiome. When food is limited, the microbiome appears to sequester the nutrients that remain, preventing pathogens from acquir-ing the energy they need to infect the host.”

intestinal walls, although the associated inflammation was still attenuated compared to normal.

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Fasting may helpward off infections

Our body does not make or store vitamin C, so we have to eat it every day. If you eat a balanced diet, it is pretty easy to get enough vitamin C. Adult women (who are not pregnant or breastfeeding) need 75 milligrams of vitamin C per day; men, 90 milligrams. A mere 1/2 cup of raw red bell pepper or 3/4 cup of orange juice will do it, while 1/2 cup cooked broccoli

gets you at least halfway there. But sometimes these requirement is not met.People with an overall poor diet, with People with an overall poor diet, with kidney disease who get dialysis, heavy drinkers, and smokers often fall short of vitamin C.When you are slow on healing When you are slow on healing

your wounds, you may be lacking vitamin C. Bleeding gums, nosebleeds, and bruises are also signs of vitamin C deficiency.Early research has found a Early research has found a

link between low levels of vitamin C and higher amounts of body fat, especially belly fat. Vitamin C deficiency also may cause vision loss and scurvy.Since vitamin C has several jobs related to your immune system, you are more likely to get sick and may have a harder time recovering. So, if you think that you are lacking vitamin C, you should take them as required.

Signs you are low on vitamin C

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September 2021

MOST DOWNLOADED APP

A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows TikTok, a video-sharing app developed in Chi-na,on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first con-ducted in 2018. As concern for personal privacy grows,Telegram,a messaging app that can delete posts, also ranked high during a year when social media use has been driven up by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ByteDance launched the international version of TikTok in 2017 and has since overtaken Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger (all of which are Face-

book-owned) in downloads, even in the U.S.

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FROM JAN 2020 TO JUL 2021

TikTok

Tecnology

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Tecnology

Samsung teams up with Google to challenge Apple WatchWhile the rate of development in phones appears to be slowing lately, the rate of development in wearables has the potential to accelerate. In the wearables arena, nothing in the Android ecosystem compares to the Apple Watch in terms of quality and utility. So without a viable alternative for Android users, Apple is increasingly likely to continue gaining users.But finally, Samsung appears to be ready to make a serious attempt to re-enter the wearables market, teaming up with Google. Samsung is expected to unveil two new smart-watches on August 11th: the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic, both of which have been widely rumored. And with this new release, the wearables war between Sam-sung, Google and Apple takes a new shape as the company that stands to gain the most from the success of these watch-es is Google, not Samsung.Despite its purchase of Fitbit and rumors that Google is working on a Pixel watch, Samsung will be the first to release Wear OS 3 smartwatches. They’ll be based on Google and Samsung’s collaboration, which was announced at Google IO earlier this year.In other words, Samsung is abandoning its own Tizen watch OS in favor of contributing parts of it to a resurrected version of Google’s dormant Wear OS. Both companies

Making a smartwatch that is better than the current Wear OS watch options, on the other hand, is embarrassingly simple. For years, Samsung has been doing it with its Tizen watch-es, which only work with Samsung devices and have been hampered by poor third-party app support.

It’s not just a matter of raising the bar for Wear OS or Tizen. For Android users, there are low bars everywhere. OnePlus, RealMe, Oppo, Fitbit, and others have turned to proprietary, simplified platforms that lack the features you’d expect in a smartwatch today as Wear OS has stagnated.

As a result, the pressure is on both Samsung and Google to deliver a pair of smartwatches that are good enough to keep Android users who want a smartwatch from feeling left out. It’s unlikely, however, that Samsung’s first round of Wear OS 3 watches will be able to match the Apple Watch’s ecosystem or integration.

Samsung, like Apple, will surely be attempting to develop an entire ecosystem of Android-related products and services. We don’t know how tightly these watches will be tied to Samsung’s ecosystem just yet, but it’s possible that non-Samsung Android users will be turned off.

claim to have improved battery life, software experiences, and third-party app support.

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Twitter launches new tools to report covid misinformationTwitter announced that it will begin testing a new reporting feature that will allow users to flag tweets that contain potential misinformation, reports The Verge.Users will be able to report misinformation in the same way that they can report harassment or other harmful content, starting today, via the dropdown menu at the top right of every tweet.Users will be asked to choose whether the false statement is political, health-related, or belongs to another category.According to The Verge report, more specific forms of misinformation, such as election-related content, are includ-ed in the politics category. Users will be able to flag Covid-19-specific misinformation under the health category.Users will not receive any updates from the company on what happens to misleading tweets they report for the time being, though this may change in the future.The new feature will be available to most users in the United States, Australia, and South Korea on Tuesday. Twit-ter stated that it plans to run this experiment for a few months before expanding it to other markets.Twitter describes the test as an “experiment,” not a fully functional feature. According to a report in TechCrunch, Twitter will monitor how users interact with the new misin-formation reporting tool to see if it can be a useful tool for identifying potentially harmful misleading tweets.

Previously in 2019, the platform added the option to report false election-related tweets to help protect elections in Europe and India.As the platform continues to test the feature, Twitter stated that not every report will be reviewed. However, the infor-mation gathered during the test will aid the company in determining how to expand the feature in the coming weeks. The test could also be used to detect tweets that contain false information and have the potential to go viral.While the option to identify tweets as misleading is a new feature, the new option will feed reported tweets into Twit-ter’s current enforcement mechanism, which employs a mix of human and algorithmic moderation to enforce Twitter’s known policies surrounding health and political misinfor-mation.This procedure will also prioritise reported tweets for review. Tweets from users with large followings or tweets with unusually high levels of engagement, as well as tweets about elections and Covid-19--Twitter’s two areas of focus when it comes to policing misinformation, will be priori-tised for review.According to TechCrunch, the new test is Twitter’s newest attempt to rely more on its own community to detect misin-formation.

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778 GAMES672 GOALS305 ASSISTS10 LA LIGA

7 COPA DEL REY7 SUPERCOPA DE ESPANA44 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE3 UEFA SUPER CUP3 CLUB WORLD CUP6 BALLON D’OR

6 EUROPEAN GOLDEN SHOE6 LA LIGA BEST PLAYER

MESSI’S BARCELONA CAREER IN NUMBER

Brazil retain Olympic football titleBrazil retained their Olympic football title with substitute Malcolm scoring an extra-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Spain in Saturday’s men’s gold medal game. After the game ended 1-1 following normal

time, Malcolm raced onto a diagonal ball from Antony and got the better of the hesitant Jesus Vallejo before driving the winner into the far corner to clinch gold for Brazil after their Rio 2016 triumph.

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always respected me and I tried to thank that respect by fighting for them in every game, every season, every competition. In the end, we can all look back and look back and realize that we

achieved great things, not all that we wanted, but still, we wrote a pretty beautiful story together. I will always be one of you. You are now part of my historhistory, as I feel that I’m part of yours. Italy,Juve, Turin,tifosi bianconeri, you’ll always be in my heart.

Champions League - 1Club World Cup- 5English Premier League - 3English League Cup - 2English Community Shield _ 2English FA Cup - 1

Cristiano’s message to JuventusToday I depart from an amazing club, the biggest in Italy and surely one of the biggest in all of Europe. I gave my heart and soul for Juventus and I’ll always love the always love the city of Turin until my final days. The “tifosi bianconeri”

Individual honours while at MU:Ballons d’or - 1FIFA Player of the YearEuropean Golden Boot - 1Champions League top scorer: 1English Premier League top scorer: 1

RONALDORETURNS TO UNITED

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