Sun 04 June 2023: Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has said Beijing seeks dialogue over confrontation with the United States, warning that any conflict between the two nations would bring “unbearable disaster for the world”. Speaking at Asia’s top security summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue, Li said on Sunday that the world was big enough for China […]
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Sun 04 June 2023: Japan’s birth rate fell to a record low in 2022 for the seventh year in a row, according to the health ministry, emphasizing the sense of crisis that the nation is experiencing as its population is quickly aging and shrinking. The ministry reported on Friday that the fertility rate, or the […]
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Sat 03 June 2023: Rescue workers raced against time to extract survivors from the debris after three trains collided tragically in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, killing at least 261 people. According to Pradeep Jena, the state’s top civil servant, the disaster on Friday in the Balasore region of Odisha state, India’s bloodiest rail […]
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Wrestler Vinesh Phogat during the wrestlers’ protest against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Monday, May 22, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav) Sat 03 June 2023: At least ten incidences of molestation and sexual favors have been documented in two First Information Reports (FIRs) […]
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Fri 02 June 2023: Many people are feared dead in eastern India after a passenger train derailed following a head-on collision with a goods train, according to media reports and officials. Friday’s accident in Odisha state’s Balasore district sent 179 people to hospital, according to Pradeep Jena, Odisha’s top civil servant. “Nearly 50 ambulances have […]
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Fri 02 June 2023: A 15-year deal on liquefied natural gas (LNG) was signed between Bangladesh and the Middle Eastern energy hub of Qatar on Thursday in Doha, according to a media statement issued by the former’s Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry on Thursday. As per the Government to Government (G2G) agreement signed in […]
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1983 cricket world cup winning team. Fri 02 June 2023: Concerned that the protesting wrestlers would take the extreme step of immersing their medals in the river Ganga, members of the 1983 World Cup-winning cricket team advised the elite athletes not to make hurried choices and hope that their grievances would be realized and […]
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Fri 02 June 2023: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says almost 151 tonnes of methamphetamine seized in Southeast, East Asia in 2022. The synthetic drugs market in Southeast and East Asia is becoming more diverse, the United Nations has warned, and drug trafficking syndicates are using new smuggling routes to ship large quantities […]
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Thu 01 June 2023: A senior aide to former prime minister Imran Khan, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was detained outside of his residence on Thursday, the party said. “Shameful how the regime doesn’t stop their fascism. The inflation has skyrocketed to 38%, and their response is to arrest former CM […]
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Thu 01 June 2023: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Franco Mulakkal as bishop of Jalandhar in northern India, who was acquitted last year of repeatedly raping a nun over a two year period. The Vatican announced the decision on Thursday, without giving any further information. Mulakkal, 59, was appointed bishop of the Diocese […]
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