Fri 05 January 2024: New Delhi: In an opinion piece for The Economist, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in August 2023 after a trial court found him guilty of corrupt practices, has warned that “Pakistan’s election could be a farce.” “Today Pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These […]
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Fri 05 January 2024: Kyiv on Friday claimed that Russia conducted airstrikes on Ukraine using North Korean missiles, mirroring a statement made a day earlier by the US. “There is no longer any disguise… As part of its outright genocidal war, the Russian Federation for the first time struck at the territory of Ukraine with […]
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Thu 04 January 2024: The January 7 Bangladesh general election is set to deliver a victory to Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party. It might also turn out to be a watershed moment in the country’s history. Despite some similarities with the past two elections of 2014 and 2018, the post-election scenario in 2024 is likely to be different. […]
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Thu 04 January 2024: Attacks on ships in the Red Sea continue to push ocean freight rates higher, triggering warnings of inflation and delayed goods. Meanwhile China’s foreign ministry spokesperson says, “China opposes attacks against civilian vessels,” he also says “I believe all sides need to play a constructive and responsible role in safeguarding the […]
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Wed 03 January 2024: Beijing organises visits to far western region where it is accused of potential crimes against humanity, but not everyone is convinced. Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of Western China were lies. Accounts from […]
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Tue 02 January 2024: Local TV video showed a large burst of fire erupt from the side of a Japan Airlines plane as it taxied on a runway Tuesday at Haneda Airport near Japan’s capital. The area around on the wing of the passenger plane, and later the entire plane appeared to be engulfed in […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has hit Ishikawa in central Japan, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate and prepare for possible aftershocks. A tsunami around 1 metre high (3.3 feet) struck parts of the west coast along the Sea of Japan, with a […]
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Sun 31 December 2023: The US claimed that a Chinese spycraft, which traversed above the US earlier this year, was in communication with China through the services of a US-based internet provider. Unnamed US intelligence officials alleged that, based on investigations, a US internet company provided services to maintain the communication network of the Chinese […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Pakistan’s election body has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 parliamentary elections, with Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e Insaf (PTI) party accusing authorities of stopping most of its candidates from participating in the elections due in February. The 71-year-old former cricket star, who is serving a three-year prison […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Six months after Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination, his community members face threats but say they’re not defeated. Surrey, British Columbia – On a Saturday afternoon in a Sikh temple in Surrey, Canada, boys and men with determined faces wield swords and sticks at each other in an ancient martial art called gatka. […]
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