Sat 11 March 2023: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater and forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano, located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta special region, erupted at about 12pm (05:00 GMT) on Saturday and unleashed […]
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Sat 11 March 2023: Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob on suspicion of carrying beef. According to a police official, authorities in India have detained three individuals in eastern Bihar state in connection with the killing of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was thought to […]
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Fri 10 March 2023: Xi Jinping was handed an unprecedented third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country’s most powerful leader in generations. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for Xi to be […]
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Fri 10 March 2023: Zubair said that while he usually ignores or laughs off the torrent of abuse he receives, the flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News busted misleading propaganda about ‘fatal attacks’ on migrant workers from Bihar in Tamil Nadu. New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair has received a fresh flurry […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: The governor of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Balkh province was killed in a blast at his office on Thursday (March 9). Speaking to the news agency AFP, Asif Waziri said the governor Mohammad Dawood Muzammil and three other persons were killed in the explosion. Taliban government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that Muzammil was […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: Muhyiddin Yassin, who was Malaysia’s prime minister as the country locked down over COVID-19, is expected to be charged on Friday with corruption over the alleged diversion of funds to his party. Muhyiddin went voluntarily for questioning at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Thursday morning in relation to allegations that […]
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) leaves after appearing before the anti-terrorist court in Islamabad [File: Aamir Qureshi/AFP] Wed 08 March 2023: Former British Ambassador Craig Murray has alleged that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deposed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as prime minister for opposing United States drone campaign, ARY News reported […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The second-stage engine of Japan’s next-generation H3 rocket appears to have failed, causing the rocket to self-destruct shortly after launch. An observation satellite was to be launched during the mission. The rocket has been considered to be a possible rival to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. After the rocket failed to depart the […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The United Nations said that a fire that ravaged a camp at Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh has left more than 12,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees homeless. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the fire on Sunday damaged more than 2,000 shelters and over 90 buildings, including hospitals and educational facilities. […]
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Tue 07 March 2023: The conflict in Ukraine appears to be driven by an invisible hand pushing for the protraction and escalation of the conflict, according to China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang. While speaking at a press conference outside of the country’s annual parliamentary gathering in Beijing, Qin claimed that the “invisible hand” is “using […]
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