Sat 18 April 2026: The UN refugee agency has warned of an ‘unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees’ in South Asia The United Nations refugee agency has revealed that nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported dead or missing in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea in 2025. This was the deadliest […]
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Wed 15 April 2026: The UN and International Organization for Migration said about 250 people, including children, are feared missing. Approximately 250 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea, the United Nations refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Loaded with men, women and […]
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Mon 13 April 2026: Three eminent international law and human rights experts have found that crimes against Muslims in the states of Assam and Uttar Pradesh may amount to apartheid as a crime against humanity, involving inhumane acts committed within an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination over a racialised group. The Panel is calling on […]
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Sat 11 April 2026: My earliest memories are of Methodist Mission quarters in the diocese of Dilkusha, Fiji. Dilkusha, the name of a minor Indian principality, was mentioned in E.M. Forster’s classic novel A Passage to India: its name literally means “Heart’s Delight” in Hindi–Urdu. Dilkusha was the Indian wing of the much larger Fijian diocese […]
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Sat 11 April 2026: The first round of talks between the US and Iran opened in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday to seek a permanent ceasefire following a two-week temporary truce between the two warring sides, official sources told Anadolu. The two delegations are holding separate meetings with Pakistani officials at a five-star hotel […]
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Sat 11 April 2026: US intelligence suggests China may supply Iran with new air defense systems in the coming weeks, even as a delicate ceasefire with Washington remains in place, CNN reported on Saturday citing sources familiar with recent assessments. The report claimed that Iran may be taking advantage of the ceasefire to restock certain […]
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Thu 09 April 2026: China has said that Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to “discuss a comprehensive plan to resolve issues” affecting ties, emphasising the need for dialogue and consultation. The agreement was reached during seven days of talks that concluded Tuesday in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang province, Chinese foreign ministry […]
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Tue 07 April 2026: Charges come after Roberts-Smith lost case against reporters who said he was involved in murders of unarmed Afghan men. Former Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan. The 47-year-old was charged with five counts of war crimes […]
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Tue 07 April 2026: At least 130 children have been reported dead, including 113 suspected measles deaths and 17 confirmed fatalities in the last six weeks, according to Bangladesh’s latest health data released on Sunday, as authorities have launched an emergency measles-rubella vaccination campaign amid a sharp rise in the outbreak’s death toll. The nationwide […]
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Sat 04 April 2026: A rare cross-border conservation effort between Japan and Indonesia is offering new hope for the survival of critically endangered orangutans, as two zoos collaborate on a carefully planned breeding program, media reports said Saturday. At the Tobe Zoological Park in western Japan, a 15-year-old male Bornean orangutan named Hayato has reached […]
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