Mon 15 June 2026: Coffee chain to hold ‘historical awareness’ training after backlash against marketing campaign that evoked 1980 military crackdown. Starbucks stores in South Korea will close early next week so employees can receive history instruction after a botched marketing campaign triggered a public backlash, the US coffee chain’s local operator has said. The […]
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Sun 14 June 2026: All state universities and higher educational institutions in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh have been directed to establish “Dharmantaran Roktham Cells” (anti-conversion Prevention cells) following instructions issued by Governor Anandiben Patel’s secretariat. According to a May 28 letter addressed to vice chancellors, directors of state universities, medical institutes and other higher educational institutions, […]
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Sun 14 June 2026: Japan’s annual births and fertility rate have dropped to new record lows, highlighting the country’s worsening demographic crisis as fewer people are getting married and having children, according to media reports. Government data released this week showed that just over 671,000 babies were born in 2025, nearly 15,000 fewer than the […]
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Thu 11 June 2026: There is a peculiar genius among certain Muslim intellectuals in the West: they can detect Islamophobia everywhere except where naming it might cost them something. In Paris, they are forensic. In Delhi, incandescent. In Gaza, thunderous. In Washington, fluent in the grammar of empire. But when Muslim political agency is crushed in Pakistan, when Imran Khan […]
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Thu 11 June 2026: Sri Lanka’s public security minister told parliament on Wednesday that the nation’s ex-intelligence chief directed the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, in the first official statement linking him directly to the bombings that killed 279 people. Minister Ananda Wijepala said Major General Suresh Sallay, who was arrested in February on accusations of […]
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Wed 10 June 2026: In Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 30-year-old Ayush Malik has publicly clarified that his conversion to Islam was entirely voluntary and not the result of coercion or deception. Addressing media, Ayush stated, “I was in no way forced or cheated. I have known about Islam since my childhood. I converted because I felt […]
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Wed 10 June 2026: Plan would rely heavily on state firms, domestic suppliers and sovereign-debt funding China is preparing a roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) plan to finance a nationwide artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout over the next five years, as Beijing seeks to strengthen its domestic AI industry and reduce reliance on foreign technology, […]
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Wed 10 June 2026: Kabul has accused Pakistan’s military of carrying out air attacks in Kunar, Khost and Paktika that killed 13 people, the majority children. The Tuesday night strikes ended weeks of relative quiet at the border. Zabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, said in a post on X that the victims […]
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Tue 09 June 2026: Police in Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, have filed a case against eight individuals, including the mutawalli (caretaker) of the Mustafa Qadri Mosque in Kaserua village, after recovering 49 posters reading “I Love Muhammad” and a green flag featuring a crescent and star during a demolition operation at the mosque on Saturday. […]
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Tue 09 June 2026: Authorities in Utsunomiya, located roughly 100 km (62 miles) north of Tokyo, have shut down all 94 of its primary and secondary schools following the first confirmed bear sighting in the city’s history. The medium-sized black bear, estimated to be around one metre long, was first spotted near a park on […]
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