Mon 16 October 2023: China is due to host representatives of 130 countries for a forum on its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that is likely to be overshadowed by the Israel-Gaza war, and the continuing conflict in Ukraine. At the top of the forum’s guest list is Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, on his first trip […]
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Mon 16 October 2023: Amid the Israel-Gaza war, Indian right-wing accounts are among leading amplifiers of anti-Palestinian fake news. The cliche goes that the first casualty of war is truth. With Israel’s occupation of Palestine, disinformation often comes with a side of anti-Palestinianism and Islamophobia, turbocharged by social media amplification, especially under Elon Musk’s leadership […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake – its third since powerful quakes on October 8 killed more than 2,000 people. The United States Geological Survey said the quake hit just after 8am (03:30 GMT) on Sunday, with the epicentre 33km (21 miles) northwest […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has criticised Israel’s operation in Gaza, describing the action as “beyond the scope of self-defence” and urging Netanyahu’s government to “cease its collective punishment of” Palestinians in the besieged enclave. Wang made the comments during a call with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan […]
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Sat 14 October 2023: India has been ranked 111 among 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index report released by two European agencies on October 12, 2023. India slipped four positions as compared to last year. The only countries ranking lower than India are Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Haiti, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Chad, Niger, Lesotho, […]
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Fri 13 October 2023: The United States must step up its military modernisation to enhance its conventional and nuclear forces and ensure it is ready for the possibility of simultaneous wars with China and Russia, a congressional commission evaluating the US’s strategic posture has said. Releasing its report (PDF) on Thursday in the US, the […]
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Fri 13 October 2023: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday that substantial progress has been made in promoting gender parity in education, with 50 million more girls enrolling in school since 2015. In its Global Education Monitoring report published on Wednesday, the International Day of the Girl, UNESCO revealed […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions filed against the early release of convicts in the Bilkis Bano case by the Gujarat government. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan reserved the judgment after hearing both the sides on the question of […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: The number of newborns in China decreased significantly in the previous year. The country saw a 10% decline in births, the lowest number on record, in spite of massive government attempts to encourage motherhood. There are worries that the nation’s demographics have become unbalanced as a result of this worrying decline. […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Indian-administered Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, reports say. Roy, 61, is one of India’s most famous living authors, but her writing and activism, including her trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
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