Mon 15 January 2024: North Korea said it has tested a new solid-fuel missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead as it continued efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry. The launch took place on Sunday afternoon and came as Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui headed to Moscow amid concerns in the United States and elsewhere […]
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A researcher takes samples from a bat’s mouth inside Sai Yok National Park in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok. [FILE: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo] Sun 14 January 2024: A recently identified bat virus that can infect humans has raised concerned about zoonotic transmission in Thailand. The controversial research group behind this discovery, EcoHealth Alliance, previously […]
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Sun 14 January 2024: After voters rejected Beijing’s warnings and selected pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as president, Taiwan on Sunday called China to “face reality” and accept the outcome of the election. Beijing’s repeated pleas for voters not to support Lai were met with a resounding victory for the man the country’s ruling Communist Party […]
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Sun 14 January 2024: In a late-night decision after holding a marathon hearing, the Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the Dec 22 decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) depriving the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) of its iconic poll symbol — ‘bat’. The decision was announced minutes before the expiry of the fifth extended deadline by the […]
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Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s vice president and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate, says, ‘Taiwan must win this battle’. China’s military has promised to “crush” any efforts to promote Taiwan’s independence, a day before a crucial election on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims is part of its territory. Hundreds of thousands of people […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: The needless controversy surrounding the Tamil film Annapoorani, which was removed by Netflix, could have been avoided had the ‘upper’ caste people outraged over a dialogue actually read the very text they were seeking to defend. Another needless controversy over culture and food, provoked, as usual, by Hindutva hot-heads has broken […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: North Korea carried out public executions of people who had violated COVID-19 regulations in previous years, a South Korean state-run think tank claimed in its latest report. A white paper on human rights issued by the Korea Institute for National Unification, citing a North Korean defector who arrived in Seoul last […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: India saw 605 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours as of Wednesday (January 10) morning, government data said. There were 3,643 active cases as of 8 am on Wednesday, representing a net decrease of 276 cases since Tuesday. Four people – two in Karnataka and Kerala each – died to contracting the […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: New Delhi: Bilkis Bano smiled for the first time in a year and a half today, she said in a letter thanking the Supreme Court for its judgement undoing the remission given to those who raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots. “Today is truly the New […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Iran’s trade and supply of oil to China has stalled after Tehran reportedly decided to withhold shipments, demanding higher prices from Beijing. According to the Reuters news agency, citing five traders who handle Iranian oil supplies or are familiar with the transactions, Iranian sellers told Chinese buyers early last month that they were […]
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