CHINA TARGETS FRIENDLY MEDIA, DIPLOMATS TO ‘TELL STORY OF XINJIANG’

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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PLANE CATCHES FIRE AT JAPAN’S TOKYO AIRPORT AFTER COLLISION WITH COAST GUARD JET

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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US CLAIMS CHINESE SPY BALLOON LINKED TO US-BASED INTERNET PROVIDER

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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ELECTION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN REJECTS FORMER PM KHAN’S NOMINATION FOR 2024 ELECTIONS

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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‘THEY CAN KILL US’: FEAR AND SIKH RESILIENCE IN CANADA CITY AMID INDIA SPAT

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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WFP REPORTS THOUSANDS OF AFGHAN REFUGEES EXPELLED FROM PAKISTAN EMPTY-HANDED

Sat 30 December 2023: Concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees being deported from Pakistan and their uncertain fate are increasing daily and thousands of these people have been returned to Afghanistan empty-handed, the World Food Program (WFP) said. WFP published a video on Wednesday of an Afghan immigrant who, according to him, was deported […]

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INDIA TARGETED HIGH-PROFILE JOURNALISTS WITH PEGASUS SPYWARE: AMNESTY

Thu 28 December 2023: India’s government has used the highly invasive Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists, according to a new investigation by Amnesty International and The Washington Post. The findings, published on Thursday, noted India’s repeated use of Pegasus against journalists, including one who was previously a victim of an attack using the same spyware. Created […]

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COVID, FLU SURGE IN U.S. AMID HOLIDAYS, INCREASING HEALTH RISKS

Thu 28 December 2023: The United States has seen an uptick in flu and COVID-19 cases amid holidays, and health experts are concerned about the increasing health risks brought by the simultaneous spread of respiratory illnesses. The amount of respiratory illnesses causing people to seek healthcare is elevated or increasing across most areas of the […]

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