Sat 12 July 2025: More than a million ethnic Rohingya, who are mostly Muslims, have fled Myanmar over past decade due to oppression ISTANBUL Top diplomats of Southeast Asian nations Friday reiterated “continued support” to security for all communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “as effectively as possible and facilitating the voluntary return” of the displaced […]
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Sat 12 July 2025: UNICEF reported a 46 per cent increase in the number of children treated for severe acute malnutrition across Sudan’s five Darfur states between January and May 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. In North Darfur, more than 40,000 children were treated in the first five months of the year, […]
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Sat 12 July 2025: Gaza‘s population has dropped by 10% as Israel continued its destructive war on the Palestinian enclave, official figures showed on Thursday. “Palestine, specifically the Gaza Strip, is suffering an unprecedented humanitarian and demographic catastrophe due to the ongoing Israeli aggression since October 2023,” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement. The bureau said […]
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Sat 12 July 2025: Nigeria’s foreign minister said the United States was pressuring African countries to accept Venezuelan deportees, some straight out of prison, but Africa’s most populous country could not accommodate them due to its own problems. President Donald Trump’s administration this week asked five African presidents visiting the White House to take in […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: Pakistan police arrested 149 people – including Nigerian and Zimbabwean nationals – in a raid on a scam call centre, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) said Thursday. Later, a court in Faisalabad handed over 69 of the suspects to the NCCIA on five-day physical remand, while 62 were sent […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: The historical Ayasofya [Hagia Sophia] Grand Mosque celebrates its fifth anniversary after the landmark decision to change its status from a museum to a mosque in July 2020. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the anniversary with a message shared on X on Thursday. “Five years ago today, we broke its chains and […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: Dozens of PKK terrorists handed over their weapons in a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant first step toward ending a decades-long armed campaign against the Turkish state. PKK terrorists destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in mountainous Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, an AFP correspondent said. “PKK terrorists, four of whom were commanders, burned […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had launched an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of users’ personal data to China. The Data Protection Commission said it was informed by TikTok in April “that limited EEA (European Economic Area) user data had in fact been stored on servers in China”, […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: Saudi Arabia played a key role in stopping a US plan to relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Hebrew-language news site Walla. Citing Israeli sources, the report said that US President Donald Trump abandoned the plan after his visit to Riyadh, where […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: Sand and dust storms are escalating in intensity and frequency, threatening the health and livelihoods of hundreds of millions across the globe, according to a new report released Thursday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Airborne Dust Bulletin revealed that around 330 million people in more than 150 countries are affected by this airborne hazard […]
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