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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed the government and the nation's "unflinching support and solidarity" with Kashmiris living across the world, observing the 76th "Accession (of Kashmir) to Pakistan Day".

The day commemorates the passage of a resolution on July 19, 1947, by the Working Committee of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference at its meeting in Srinagar whereby it had called for the Muslim majority state’s accession to the yet-to-be-created dominion of Pakistan.

In his message on the day, Shehbaz said, "We strongly condemn the relentless Indian persecution of Kashmiris and grave violation of human rights and call upon the UN and international community to ensure the implementation of the UN resolutions."

WhatsApp and Instagram, the two popular social media platforms owned by Facebook, have been successfully restored worldwide following a widespread breakdown that left users unable to access their accounts and communicate with their contacts.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has pledged to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him one of the first major world leaders to indicate his attendance.
His remarks came in a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who said he looked forward to a "get-together".
It comes as a growing number of countries have joined a diplomatic boycott of the Games.
This is due to alleged human rights abuses in China, which Beijing denies.

"I would like to point out that we always support each other when it comes to international sports cooperation, including our position against attempts to politicise sports and the Olympic Movement," said Mr Putin in comments carried by state-owned media outlet The Global Times.
China has been accused of genocide in its repression of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang - an allegation it has repeatedly rejected.
China's suppression of political freedoms in Hong Kong and concerns for Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who was not seen in public for weeks after she accused a top government official of sexual assault in November are also among the diplomatic issues that have arisen.
The US, UK and Australia and Canada have said their high-level officials will not be attending the winter Games, which will take place in February, as a result.
However, athletes from these countries will still be in attendance.
China has taken aim at countries joining the diplomatic boycott, saying they would "pay the price for their mistaken acts".
"The United States, Britain and Australia have used the Olympics platform for political manipulation," Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry, said.
On Thursday, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also added that he had no plans to attend the Games at the moment.
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Russia under Mr Putin has forged extensive economic, military and scientific ties with China.

South Africa was where the new Omicron variant was first identified, and cases there have taken off rapidly.
This is starting to be seen in other countries, and the World Health Organization (WHO) says it is "spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant".
What else can we learn from the South African experience?
Does Omicron cause milder disease?
Data on hospital admissions for Covid in South Africa show them rising quite sharply in all provinces.

But they are not going up as fast as you would expect given the number of cases. Fewer patients currently need oxygen and ventilators, and they are in hospital for shorter periods.
Discovery Health, a major health provider there, calculated adults infected early in the Omicron outbreak were roughly 30% less likely to be admitted to hospital than those infected in South Africa's first wave.
Senior South African scientists say this doesn't show the variant itself is milder, though.
Chart showing the third and fourth waves in South Africa
The big difference from previous waves is the rate of vaccination and natural immunity in the population.
Although either two doses of vaccine or a previous infection appear much less effective at stopping people catching the Omicron variant, they still seem to provide protection against severe illness.
Dr Vicky Baillie, a senior scientist at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Johannesburg, said the lower rates of hospital treatment were probably because of people having greater immunity
"There's no evidence it's a less virulent mutation," she said.
Staff at a Pretoria

Early data suggests Omicron leads to fewer hospital admissions than in previous waves
The WHO warns that the data suggesting the variant could be milder could also be skewed by the fact that numbers in hospital are small, and most of those admitted are under the age of 40 - so at lower risk of falling seriously ill.
They may be in hospital for other reasons - but South African hospitals test everyone who is admitted, so pick up a lot of mild cases.
It could also be because over-60s in South Africa are much more likely than the average population there to be vaccinated, protecting them against severe disease.
And South Africa has a young population, with a median age of 27.6 years compared with 40.4 in the UK for example - so its experience of Omicron may not be the same as countries with older populations.

Why do thousands of Indian housewives kill themselves every year?
According to the recently released data by the government's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 22,372 housewives took their own lives last year - that's an average of 61 su***des every day or one every 25 minutes.
Housewives accounted for 14.6% of the total 153,052 recorded su***des in India in 2020 and more than 50% of the total number of women who killed themselves.
And last year was not an exception. Since 1997 when the NCRB started compiling su***de data based on occupation, more than 20,000 housewives have been killing themselves every year. In 2009, their numbers rose to 25,092.

Reports always blame such su***des on "family problems" or "marriage related issues". But what really does drive thousands of women to take their lives?
Mental health experts says a major reason is rampant domestic violence - 30% of all women told a recent government survey that they had faced spousal violence - and the daily drudgery that can make marriages oppressive and matrimonial homes suffocating.
"Women are really resilient, but there's a limit to tolerance," says Dr Usha Verma Srivastava, a clinical psychologist in the northern city of Varanasi.
"Most girls are married off as soon as they turn 18 - the legal age for marriage. She becomes a wife and a daughter-in-law and spends her entire day at home, cooking and cleaning and doing household chores. All sorts of restrictions are placed on her, she has little personal freedom and rarely has access to any money of her own.
"Her education and dreams no longer matter and her ambition begins to extinguish slowly, and despair and disappointment set in and the mere existence become torture."

Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi will leave for Turkey today in order to attend the Antalya Diplomacy Forum from June 17th 2021. He was invited by the Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavuaoglu.

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum will feature high-level participation of political leaders, diplomats, thinkers, and academia for discussion on important thematic and international issues.

''Innovative Diplomacy: New Era New Approaches'' is the theme of the Forum.

Furthermore, Shah Mahmood Qureshi will also be participating in a panel discussion on ‘Regional Cooperation in Asia’ along with other Foreign Ministers from the region Here he will bring into the limelight Pakistan’s vision for regional cooperation, economic development and connectivity.

On the other hand, during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, the FM will be having meetings with his counterparts and key regional and international partners.

Every member of a police crowd-control unit in the US city of Portland has resigned after one of its officers was indicted on an assault charge.
The charge stemmed from violent anti-racism protests that rocked the city, in the state of Oregon, last year.
Prosecutors allege the officer used "excessive and unlawful use of force" against a protester in August 2020.
But Portland's police union described the decision to prosecute the officer as "politically driven".

The crowd-control unit, known as the Rapid Response Team (RRT), is comprised of about 50 police officers. They serve in the team voluntarily and are deployed during events such as riots, large-scale searches or disaster situations.
In a statement, Portland police said members had "left their voluntary positions and no longer comprise a team". It said the officers would continue in their regular assignments.
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Portland experienced weeks of protests against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.
Amid widespread rioting, vandalism and arson that often took place at night, the RTT was sent in to disperse crowds.
The then Trump administration also sent federal security forces to the city in July to protect federal buildings that were being vandalised. However, their deployment exacerbated civil unrest, especially when footage emerged of protesters being grabbed off the street by federal officers and forced into unmarked cars.
Earlier this week, a grand jury decided to indict Portland police officer Corey Budworth with one count of fourth-degree assault - the first RTT member to face criminal prosecution stemming from the protests.

The EU has lost a legal battle in Brussels to force Anglo-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca to supply 120m doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of June.
It went to court last month after the company delayed shipment of the vital vaccines, having originally committed to supply 300m doses by the same date.
However, the EU demand was not satisfied by the judge in Brussels.
But the judge did impose deadlines on AstraZeneca to supply doses to the EU over the summer or face hefty fines.
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Both the EU and the pharmaceutical company talked up Friday's court order, with Brussels saying it confirmed its position and AstraZeneca saying it welcomed the outcome.
The two-dose Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is one of the big three vaccines, along with those developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and has by far the greatest global reach.

On Saturday, London, Ontario's Muslim community will lay to rest four members of a family killed in what police say was a racially motivated attack. Here's what we know about the family.
In May 2009, Madiha Salman was preparing to begin her master's degree in environmental engineering at Western University in London, Ontario. Madiha wrote to her soon-to-be faculty adviser, Professor Jason Gerhard, thanking him for his warm welcome into the programme, which she thought was going to be "a great experience of my life".
With her husband, Salman Afzaal, and their toddler, Yumna, Madiha moved to London to begin her studies. After she graduated, the couple stayed in the city, eventually having a second child, and becoming well-loved members of its tight-knit Muslim community.
On Sunday, Madiha, Salman and Yumna, and Salman's 74-year-old mother (who has not been named out of respect for the family's wishes), were struck and killed by a London man in a truck during an evening walk. The sole survivor was their nine-year-old son.

Japan is not a country known for protests. So when people take to the streets in large numbers, it gets noticed.
The Tokyo Olympics, up until the pandemic, may have been an unlikely target. But with less than 50 days till the start of the event, the majority of the public say they want the Games to be cancelled or postponed again.
It doesn't mean, however, that there aren't supporters of the event.
Recently, I received a passionate message on social media from someone in Japan who was in favour of the Olympics.

"The most memorable Olympics I remember watching on TV is the 1984 Los Angeles Games. I was so proud to watch Judo's Yasuhiro Yamash*ta in tears, with the rising sun flag in the middle, with a gold medal around his neck.
I watched Carl Lewis run so fast and thought he must be God. Olympic athletes are superhumans who exist in real life. That's why I want the Tokyo Olympics to go ahead because I want to watch those athletes."
However, the person pleaded for anonymity, as did another person who told me he wanted the Games to go ahead "so that the athletes can show off all the efforts from the last five years".
Why? Their answers were almost exactly the same.
"Those against the Games may complain, not just to me but also to my company and I don't want to cause trouble for my colleagues and bosses."
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A petition against the Tokyo Olympics has collected a record 420,000 signatures.
Ten thousand registered volunteers have quit. Hospitals posted messages on their windows saying "Stop Olympics". Hundreds of cities backed out of hosting athletes.

G7 leaders are to commit to using all their resources in an effort to ensure the devastation caused by a pandemic like Covid-19 is never repeated.
On the second day of their summit in Cornwall, they will issue a declaration that sets out a series of measures intended to achieve this.
The aim is to slash the time needed to develop vaccines to under 100 days.
On Friday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the summit with a plea to tackle global inequality.

Travis Barker will be making many appearances with his girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian on television screens.

As per an ET source, the Blink-182 drummer, who has been spotted getting very cosy with the Poosh founder, may be gracing the screen on the Kardshian clan’s new Hulu show.

"Travis is expected to make an appearance on the Kardashian's Hulu show. His kids may appear as well, but not as much as he will be featured,” the source said.

The source also shared that "Travis and Kourtney are doing great" and that he "just wants to keep her happy."

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India on Monday reported just over 100,000 fresh coronavirus infections after several days of 400,000-plus cases in May

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- year-old Bone was ready to become a musician, recording his music but then a military revolt in Myanmar. Now he is protesting on the streets and stinging for democracy restoration.

Clashes between Sir Syed Express and Millat Express near Ghotki in Sindh Province, Pakistan have resulted in at least people killed and more than injured. Authorities say relief measures on the crash. Still going on.
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Rubio argues likely 2022 Democratic challenger Demings 'has voted for socialist things'

Former President Donald Trump argued on Monday that U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is "doing right thing" by saying "no" to ending the filibuster.

Kamala Harris’ diplomatic trip to Latin America gets off to bumpy start as plane forced to turn around
Vice President Kamala Harris' diplomatic trip to Guatemala and Mexico got off to a bumpy start Sunday after her plane was forced to return to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about 25 minutes after it had taken off.

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