Mon 10 November 2025: At least ten people have been killed and several others injured after an explosion was reported near the Red Fort in the national capital city on Monday evening. Reports suggest that the incident occurred in a car outside the Lal Qila metro station. Twenty-four people were injured in the blast and […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: At least 11 Rohingya refugees have died and hundreds more are feared missing after a boat carrying people fleeing Myanmar capsized near the Thai-Malaysian maritime border. The vessel went down off Thailand’s Ko Tarutao island, just north of Malaysia’s Langkawi Island. Malaysian authorities recovered seven bodies on Sunday, including five women […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: Indonesia is considering curbs on violent video games such as PUBG in the wake of last week’s explosion at a Jakarta school mosque, which injured nearly 100 people. President Prabowo Subianto “is considering restricting online games after a student was linked to a school explosion that injured 96 people,” a senior Indonesian official […]
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Sun 09 November 2025: The government of Assam, led by Hindu nationalist Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has announced plans to introduce a new law to prevent Hindus converting to Islam through marriage. The proposed legislation, described by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government as an “anti-Love Jihad” measure, would impose life imprisonment on men […]
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Sat 08 November 2025: UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before the Taliban’s narcotics ban in 2022. Afghanistan’s once-booming opium industry has shrunk dramatically with cultivation falling by 20 percent in 2025, according to a United Nations report warning of a sharp rise in synthetic […]
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Fri 07 November 2025: Dozens of people were injured Friday, including students and teachers after multiple explosions occurred inside a school mosque in Indonesia’s capital during Friday prayers, according to local media. The incident happened during Friday prayers inside a school complex in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. City police chief Asep Edi Suheri said the […]
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Fri 07 November 2025: Critical minerals essential for smartphones, wind turbines, chips, and defense systems saw sharp price spikes in the third quarter, driven by Beijing’s stricter export controls, according to the Bavarian Industry Association’s monthly commodity report. Their prices in US dollars rose by 8.2% compared to the previous quarter, according to the latest […]
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Thu 06 November 2025: Japan’s military has sent soldiers to a rugged, mountainous area in the northern Akita Prefecture to assist in combating a dramatic rise in bear attacks that have left locals in fear. Over the past seven months, nationwide figures from the Ministry of the Environment, reported as of late October, show at […]
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Mon 03 November 2025: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan close to Mazar-i-Sharif, resulting in at least 20 fatalities. On Monday, the Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health updated the death count as rescue operations got underway, with an additional 320 individuals suffering injuries. The disaster adds to the list of deadly quakes to hit the […]
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Sun 02 November 2025: At the 16th International Civil Society Week (ICSW) taking place in Bangkok, where over a thousand civil society activists have gathered, the inaugural plenary session expressed solidarity with Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who has been imprisoned since November 2021 under India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) of 1967. The show of […]
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