Mon 09 January 2023: China on Monday morning launched three satellites into space, the country’s first space launch of the new year. Three satellites named Shijian-23, Shiyan-22A, and Shiyan-22B were blasted off at 6 a.m. Beijing time (2200GMT Sunday) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan using a Long […]
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Mon 09 January 2023: A senior official from the U.S. development agency USAID said on Monday that Washington would provide an additional $100 million in funding for Pakistan’s recovery from devastating floods last year. “I am delighted to announce that the United States is making an additional 100-million-dollar commitment to Pakistan to help it recover […]
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Mon 09 January 2023: In the aftermath of disastrous floods, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appealed for widespread assistance to aid Pakistan with a $16 billion rebuilding effort. He claimed that the country had been a victim of both the global financial system and climatic catastrophe, Reuters reported Officials from more than 40 countries, […]
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The self-ruled island of Taiwan was the target of military maneuvers focused on land and sea assaults, according to China’s military. This was the second such exercise in less than a month. 57 Chinese military aircraft and four naval ships were spotted flying over Taiwan in the last 24 hours, according to Taiwan’s defense […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: Approximately 200 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, arrived on Indonesia’s western coast on a wooden boat on Sunday, according to authorities. This is the fifth boat transporting Rohingya migrants to arrive in Indonesia since November, according to the authorities. Each year, thousands of the severely persecuted Rohingya, who are primarily […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: If it seems like Groundhog Day in Afghanistan, you could be right. The ruling Taliban seems to have made little change to its ideology and is even further away from the promises it made to improve women’s rights when its fighters entered Kabul unchallenged in August 2021. Girls’ schools have been […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: Following the government’s decision to relax Covid regulations, more top Chinese engineers and scientists have passed away in less than a month than they usually do in a year, according to a prestigious Chinese scientific body. Twenty leading engineers and scientists of the Chinese academy of Engineering have died less in […]
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Sat 07 January 2023: After large cracks appeared in their homes, residents of Joshimath, Uttarakhand state, are demanding evacuation and rehabilitation. Fears among residents who have been camping out in the cold as around 600 houses and other structures have developed cracks due to the soil shifting. More than 3,000 people are affected, the municipality […]
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Fri 06 January 2023: The Taliban administration has denounced Britain’s Prince Harry for his admission of killing 25 people while on military duty in Afghanistan, and a senior Afghan official has accused the royal of killing innocent civilians. “We checked and found that the days on which Prince Harry is mentioning the killing of 25 mujaheddin, we […]
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Fri 06 January 2023: In an effort to boost revenue, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan inked its first foreign deal on Thursday to extract oil from the northern Amu Darya basin. In a ceremony held in the capital Kabul on Thursday, acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Sheikh Shahabuddin Delawar and a representative of the […]
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