Thu 11 December 2025: A military court sentenced the former head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency to 14 years in prison on charges including violation of state secrets and misuse of authority, the army said Thursday. Faiz Hameed, who served during the tenure of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, was also convicted of “engaging in political […]
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Tue 09 December 2025: Thailand launched air attacks along its disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as the two neighbours trade blame for renewed fighting. Cambodia says Thailand’s military resumed attacks on Tuesday morning in border regions, killing at least seven people. Thailand says at least three soldiers killed in the attacks. Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen has […]
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Tue 09 December 2025: Paleontologists have discovered over 20 dinosaur and other vertebrate footprints on a rock face in southwest China’s Sichuan province, a find they believe provides new insights into early dinosaur evolution around 200 million years ago. The tracks were initially spotted by a hiker in Dujiangyan city last month, and their authenticity […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Mon 08 December 2025: On Monday, France initiated the repatriation of a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia, almost ten years after the fossil was illegally excavated from the Gobi Desert and subsequently seized by French customs authorities. The specimen, a rare Tarbosaurus baatar—the Asian cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex—was confiscated in […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: The UK and Qatar have jointly announced $11.2 million in funding to support more than 647,000 Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. The joint funding will support the provision of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to vulnerable refugee households, aiming to improve living conditions and reduce environmental degradation in and around the camps, according to […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Three decades on from the day Hindu mobs razed the historic Babri Masjid to the ground, India’s Muslims still refuse to forget its legacy. In a nation increasingly dominated by Hindutva nationalism, that unyielding memory has become the a powerful act of resistance,” writes journalist Rushda Fathima Khan. Despite the construction […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Afghanistan authorities say four civilians have been killed after an exchange of heavy fire with Pakistan’s forces along their shared border, as tensions between the South Asian neighbours escalate after peace talks in Saudi Arabia failed to produce a breakthrough. The governor of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district in the Kandahar province […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Indonesian police have named a Chinese national as a suspect in a radioactive contamination case involving the storage of cesium-137 at an industrial metal smelting facility on Java Island in Banten province. Authorities have identified Lin Jingzhang, the head of Metal Peter Technology, a firm that processes scrap metal, as a suspect involved in […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: In a major enforcement drive against noise pollution, Muzaffarnagar police have removed more than 55 loudspeakers from various mosques across the city for violating Supreme Court-mandated sound limits, officials confirmed on Wednesday. The action was carried out in areas under Civil Lines, Kotwali, and Khalapar police stations as part of a […]
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Thu 04 December 2025: On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his inaugural trip to India since 2021, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the enduring, reliable relationship between their countries. This journey precedes the duo’s joint leadership of the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, scheduled for Friday in New Delhi. Defense, energy, nuclear cooperation, payment […]
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