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India News: India has approved the OCI Card eligibility for the 7th-generation of Indian-origin Mauritians, President Droupadi Murmu announced. The President also
Schools and colleges in the indian state of kar nataka partially re opened on monday after being closed since last week following protests over the wearing of hijabs in classrooms. the row was sparked after six female students were barred from entering college premises for wearing hijabs. the brother of a pakistani social media star who was murdered in one of the country s most notorious so called honour killings has been acquitted after a number of witnesses retracted their statements. muhammad waseem had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 after he had admitted strangling his 26 year old sister, qandeel baloch. the mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the remote chagos islands in the indian ocean. they ve been under british control for 50 years. but the united nations has told britain to hand the islands back to mauritius, which had jurisdiction over them previously.
Britain is illegally occupying these islands. the british and the americans say their priority here is security, that if the uk surrenders sovereignty over this strategic archipelago, before long, the chinese navy could be muscling in here. but the mauritian government insists they won t allow that to happen. but this isn tjust about sovereignty and security. also visiting chagos today, islanders who were forcibly removed from their homes here by britain, 50 years ago. it is a rare chance to visit their ancestors graves. it is in such a mess. it makes me sad , says rosamund. and although the chagossians are not united on this, the group raises another mauritian flag, in defiance of britain. andrew harding, bbc news, on the chagos islands. the british foreign, commonwealth and development office has said it has established a £40 million support fund for displaced chagos islanders to run over
The group raises another mauritian flag, in defiance of britain. andrew harding, bbc news, on the chagos islands. the british foreign, commonwealth and development office has said it has established a £40 million support fund for displaced chagos islanders to run over a ten year period. although there are further claims that very little of that money has been distributed. mexico s avocado industry is huge worth around $2.11 billion a year and with the us as its key export market. but the american department of agriculture has suspended all avocado imports from mexico until, it says, the safety of american inspectors is guaranteed. on saturday one inspector working in mexico received a threatening text on his phone. all mexican avocado imports to the us come from the state of michoacan where violent gangs often extort growers. earlier i asked npr s international correspondent carrie kahn, what more we know about the incident.