Fri 26 September 2025: Andrzej Bargiel of Poland has achieved a historic feat as the first person to ski down Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen, according to his team and expedition organizer. Bargiel descended the snowy slopes of the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak after summiting on Monday. “I am on top of the highest mountain […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: An Indian court rejected a legal challenge by Elon Musk’s X against the country’s new content moderation mechanism, dealing a setback to the social media firm in one of its biggest markets. Filed in March, the company’s case against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in the Karnataka High Court had targeted […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada called for an emergency meeting with ministers and senior officials to discuss US President Donald Trump’s demands over the Bagram airbase. Several senior Taliban figures have reportedly traveled to Kandahar in recent days in preparation for the meeting, which is expected to take place soon. The […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: The problem, obvious to anyone, was that, whether he fully understood it or not, Modi was hunting with the hounds and running with the hares. In February 2018 the Trump White House drew up the “US strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific”. This paper, declassified in January 2021, says America’s intent was […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: More than 300 people have been killed in Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains and flooding continue to wreak havoc across the country, local officials said Saturday. Weeks of torrential downpours have triggered flash floods, sweeping away homes, roads, and bridges. Authorities say the country has received far more rain than usual this […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: South Korea’s military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the country with the world’s lowest birthrate, a report said on Sunday. The dramatic decline in the pool of […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: At least 194 people were killed and 28 others injured in rain-related accidents across Pakistan in the past 24 hours, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Friday. The northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was the worst hit, reporting 180 deaths, followed by Pakistan-controlled Kashmir with nine fatalities and the northern Gilgit-Baltistan […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Japan will use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to teach the Japanese language to children with foreign roots. The move comes amid a shortage of teachers who can speak languages such as Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish, Kyodo News reported on Thursday. Guidelines are expected to be prepared to use AI to adopt […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: The long-awaited verdict on the Malegaon blast of 2008 was delivered by a special court in Mumbai. The judgement has acquitted all seven accused in the Malegaon blasts case, which came as a blow to the victims and celebrations to the Hindutva camp. Many were anticipating this type of verdict and […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: Afghanistan is experiencing a sharp increase in child returnees, with Save the Children reporting that, on average, one child returns from Iran or Pakistan every 30 seconds, as stated in their Monday release. More than 800,000 children have returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan this year, double the number recorded […]
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