India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Mar 11: India said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance. "On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile," the government said in a statement. "It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident." — Reuters
Russia puts Kremlin critic Navalny's press secretary on wanted list
MOSCOW, Mar 11: Russian authorities have put Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh on an international wanted list and are seeking that she be sent to jail, a Russian police database showed on Friday. Yarmysh left Russia last year after a court imposed 18 months of restrictions on her freedom of movement for breaching Covid-19 safety rules. Russian authorities have cracked down hard on the opposition, and many of Navalny's most prominent allies have left Russia rather than face restrictions or jail at home. — Reuters
Chinese city of 9 million locks down as Covid cases spike
SHANGHAI, Mar 11: A northeastern Chinese city of nine million people has been ordered to lock down as authorities scramble to halt a fresh outbreak that has pushed Covid-19 case counts to their highest in two years. Changchun, the capital of Jilin province and an important industrial base, has ordered residents to work from home, allowing one person out every two days to buy "daily necessities", and said it would institute mass testing. — AFP
Facebook removes posts repeating Johnson’s anti-Muslim comments
LONDON: Controversial comments made in 2018 by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson were posted by a media watchdog under dummy Facebook accounts and were then removed by the social media platform for hate speech. Big Brother Watch (BBW) devised the experiment to test Facebook’s content policies — and found that the social media site, owned by tech giant Meta, views words used by Johnson to be “harassment and bullying.” Johnson wrote a column in August 2018 for the Daily Telegraph newspaper in which he said Muslim women in burqas resembled post boxes. — Arab News
17 civilians killed in Sudan’s Darfur clashes
KHARTOUM, Mar 11: At least 17 civilians have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region, officials said Friday, in the latest violence between rival ethnic groups that has left dozens dead this week alone. Recent fighting has seen heavily armed forces battle in the rugged Jebel Moon mountains in West Darfur state, close to the border with Chad. — AFP
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