A DIFFICULT MOMENT FOR U.S.-AFGHAN RELATIONS
June 26 ,2021
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By: Michael Kugelman
Welcome to South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: Afghanistan’s leadership meets U.S. President J...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 JUNE
June 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYMUMBAI, INDIA
The south-west monsoon set in over Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday, the MeT department...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 10 JUNE
June 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYMARMARA, TURKEY
A boat sailing among mucilage, a jelly-like layer of slime that develops on the surface of the water...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 04 JUNE
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYCOLOMBO, SRI LANKA
Sri Lankan authorities are preparing for an oil spill from a sunken container ship after efforts...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 03 JUNE
June 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYGAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
Palestinian children stand at the window of their home at a building heavily damaged during re...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 02 JUNE
June 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYRAJBARI, BANGLADESH
A Krishnachura tree in full bloom. The picture was taken from Goalanda in Rajbari on 31 May. Oft...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 31 MAY
May 31 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson pose for a photo in the garden of 10...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 MAY
May 29 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYKATHMANDU, NEPAL
People in Kathmandu sprinkled colours on Boudha Stupa as they marked Buddha Jayanti. The 2565th bir...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 28 MAY
May 28 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNAYPYIDAW, MYANMAR
The civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi (left), and the president, Win Myint, make their first cour...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 27 MAY
May 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYDIGHA, INDIA
Villagers head to rescue people from flood water as Cyclone Yaas makes landfall near the Bay of Bengal,...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 26 MAY
May 26 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYKOLKATA, INDIA
Rough sea in the Bay of Bengal ahead of Cyclone Yaas landfall, at Digha in East Midnapore district, T...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 25 MAY
May 25 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYGAZA CITY, PALESTINE
Palestinians sit in a tent that has been set up on top of the ruins of a building destroyed in...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 24 MAY
May 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, UNITED STATES
People participate in a pro-Palestinian rally calling for an end to the Israeli occupation i...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 22 MAY
May 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Israel and the the ruling Ham...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 21 MAY
May 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Demonstrators hold Palestine and Syrian flags in support of Palestine in midtown Manhattan,...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 20 MAY
May 20 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Yeoman Serjeant Clive Towel, left, and Yeoman Warder Darren Hardy at the gates of the Tower...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 APRIL
April 29 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYPETERSBURG, RUSSIA
A worker paints over a mural of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia's government...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 28 APRIL
April 28 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW DELHI, INDIA
A family member gathers wood for a funeral pyre for a relative at Ghazipur cremation ground...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 21 APRIL
April 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW DELHI, INDIA
A family sits in a truck at a bus station in New Delhi on April 19, 2021, to leave for their villag...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 20 APRIL
April 20 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
A woman (R) hugs a family member before his departure for New Zealand at Sydney Internatio...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 17 APRIL
April 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
PICTURE OF THE DAYDASNA, INDIA
Farmers eat a meal during a 24-hour blockade of a major expressway as part of their ongoing protests ag...
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