Wed 20 December 2023: Malaysia barred Israeli-flagged cargo ships from docking at its ports on Wednesday in protest to Israel’s operations in Gaza, which it said violated “basic humanitarian principles.” Ships bound for Israel will also be prevented from loading cargo at any port in the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian nation, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim […]
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Tue 19 December 2023: At least 118 people have been killed and hundreds injured after an earthquake hit northwestern China in a remote and mountainous region while many were asleep. While the authorities quickly mobilised several emergency responses, their work was complicated as the earthquake wrecked roads and infrastructure, triggered landslides, and half buried a […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: Pakistani authorities are accused of temporarily slowing down internet services yesterday and blocking access to major social media platforms, coinciding with a planned “virtual jalsa (meeting)” organised by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Several Pakistani netizens took to social media to complain about problems accessing X […]
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Mon 18 December 2023: On Monday, a national security trial for Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying began in West Kowloon, public broadcaster RTHK reported. The now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper’s 76-year-old founder is charged of “colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to print seditious publications.” The trial should last at […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: New Delhi: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has issued a detailed statement and again called upon the Joe Biden administration to designate India a Country of Particular Concern, or CPC. It said it is “alarmed by India’s increased transnational targeting of religious minorities and those advocating on their behalf. Recent […]
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Artificial rain has been used for the first time in Pakistan in a bid to combat hazardous levels of pollution in the megacity of Lahore, says the provincial government. Planes equipped with cloud-seeding equipment flew on Saturday over the eastern city, often ranked one of the worst places globally for air pollution. “It drizzled in at least […]
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Fri 15 December 2023: New Delhi: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that Ottawa intends to disclose evidence concerning possible connections between the killing of a Canadian citizen and the Indian government, adopting a similar approach to the United States “when we reach those points in the investigation”. Last week, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar said […]
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Thu 14 December 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani government has announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle to a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months. The extension of the deadline on Wednesday from the end of this year to February 29 comes amid Pakistan’s drive to expel […]
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Thu 14 December 2023: Pakistan has protested to Afghanistan’s Taliban government over the killing of 23 soldiers in an attack on a military base, demanding action against the perpetrators, Islamabad said as it grapples with security challenges ahead of elections next year, according to Reuters. Tuesday’s gun and bomb attack claimed by an Islamist militant […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently on establishing a clearing arrangement and designating a clearing bank in Serbia for Chinese yuan transactions, the NBS said in a press release on Monday. At the signing ceremony, NBS Governor […]
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