The University of Edinburgh holds one of the largest and most historically significant collections of ancestral remains (Neil Hanna/PA) Sat 04 October 2023: The University of Edinburgh has returned the skulls of four Paiwan warriors to Taiwanese Indigenous leaders, nearly 150 years after their deaths. The repatriation is the first of its kind for […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: Schools across India’s capital New Delhi have been shuttered and construction activity halted as the city was declared the world’s most polluted. The closures were ordered on Friday as air pollution rose to dangerous levels, with Swiss air quality monitoring group IQAir putting the Indian city at the top of a […]
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Thu 02 October 2023: The World Bank has approved 210 million U.S. dollars for a Bangladeshi project to provide cash transfers and counseling services to improve nutrition and directly benefit about 1.7 million pregnant women and mothers of children under four years in vulnerable households. Under current education and health systems, a child born in […]
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Thu 02 October 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – Thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants in Pakistan are heading to the border to return home a day before a government-imposed deadline to leave the country expires. Earlier this month, Pakistan’s interim interior minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, issued an October 31 deadline for all “illegal” refugees and migrants to leave, citing security concerns. […]
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Wed 01 October 2023: An elite Kenyan police unit is on trial on a charge of wrongful death following the killing of a Pakistani journalist in Nairobi last year. The case opened at the Kajiado High Court on the outskirts of Nairobi on Tuesday, with petitioners claiming that Arshad Sharif’s death was an “assassination” planned […]
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Tue 31 October 2023: Apple has warned several Indian opposition leaders and journalists that their iPhones may have been targeted by “state-sponsored attackers”. The technology giant on Tuesday sent messages to those likely hit, saying, “If your device is compromised by a state-sponsored attacker, they may be able to remotely access your sensitive data, communications, […]
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Tue 31 October 2023: Indonesian authorities have arrested dozens of people from hardline groups over suspected plots aimed at disrupting next year’s presidential election, police have said. Police arrested 59 suspects and seized weapons, propaganda material and bomb-making chemicals, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 unit said on Tuesday. “For them, the election […]
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A Border Patrol agent monitors a group of men from India who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 16, 2018, in San Diego. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Mon 30 October 2023: Nearly 42,000 migrants from India have crossed the southern border illegally during the fiscal year starting last October through September, the Wall Street Journal has reported, […]
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Mon 30 October 2023: A major international security forum began in China’s capital Beijing on Monday amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Participants from more than 90 countries, including the U.S. and Russia, are attending the 10th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, according to the Chinese Defense Ministry. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, delivered […]
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Sun 29 October 2023: The EH216-S AAV, a completely autonomous drone meant to carry two people, has acquired the world’s first airworthiness “type certificate” from Ehang in Guangzhou. According to CNBC, Ehang, a publicly traded firm in the United States, has declared itself the first to possess this certificate, allowing it to fly autonomous electric […]
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