Sun 30 October 2022: President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea has announced a period of national mourning following a fatal Halloween crush in Seoul, where grieving family members went to the city’s hospitals in search of their lost loved ones. In a statement released hours after 151 people died in a stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Imran Khan, a former Pakistani prime minister, started a “long march” on the country’s capital Islamabad to urge for early elections, applying more pressure to an administration. Despite being removed from government in April by a no-confidence vote following defections by several of his coalition partners, the former international cricket player […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: The match fee for men’s and women’s cricketers (contracted) would be the same, according to a major statement made by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday. In many ways, the choice to pay female cricketers the same amount as male cricketers for a match was a […]
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Thu 27 October 2022: A pro-China online influence campaign is seeking to discredit the United States’ democracy and discourage citizens from voting in the upcoming midterm elections, according to cybersecurity researchers. The influence campaign, dubbed DRAGONBRIDGE, aims to “sow division both between the US and its allies and within the US political system itself”, including […]
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Wed 26 October 2022: Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan, has announced that on Friday, he and his supporters will start a protest march from the eastern city of Lahore to the capital in order to demand early elections. Following Khan’s removal from his parliamentary seat last week after Pakistan’s top election tribunal […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: The 49-year-old journalist, who fled Pakistan in August after multiple cases were filed against him for criticising the military, was shot dead in Kenya. A prominent Pakistani investigative journalist critical of the country’s powerful military has been killed in Kenya nearly two months after he left Pakistan. “I lost friend, husband […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: On Monday, a Pakistani court stated that the recent decision by the country’s Election Commission could not prevent the former prime minister Imran Khan from running in any future elections, Anadolu Agency reported, Imran Khan can run in any election in the future, said the Islamabad High Court’s chief justice. Khan’s […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: The Communist Party of China (CPC) confirmed on Sunday that Xi Jinping will serve as its leader for an unprecedented third term. Since the party’s founding one hundred years ago, Xi, 69, is the first Chinese leader to hold the fort for a third time. After the first meeting of the […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: On Sunday, just after midnight, at 12:07 a.m., the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched 36 satellites using its heaviest rocket, cementing its position as a leader in the world of commercial satellite launches. These satellites were launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on the rocket LVM3 for […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: A second-year dental science student of a private medical college here died on Friday, two days after she allegedly jumped off the fourth floor of the building and was hospitalised with critical injuries, police said. The 22-year-old student – Vania Asad Sheikh – was reportedly harassed mentally and physically by her […]
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